Gift Cards

Gift cards you get paid for the day they sell

Your name on the card, your shows to spend it on, and the money in your own Stripe account before anyone has picked a night.

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Every December

“Do you do gift vouchers?”

Somebody asks in the second week of November and you say no, or you write something on a card behind the bar and hope you remember it in March. Meanwhile the theatre down the road has been selling them since October.

The Money

You're paid when it sells, not when it's used.

Most gift cards are a balance the platform holds until someone redeems it. Yours isn't. The face value goes to your Stripe account in the same charge that takes the customer's money — the same way your ticket sales already work.

  • The full face value is yoursA $100 card puts $100 in your account. The buyer pays the service fee, exactly like a ticket.
  • No tax on the card itselfStored value isn't taxed when you sell it. HST applies when they spend it, on whatever they buy.
  • An unused balance isn't money you're waiting onYou already have it. What's left on a card is something you owe a customer, like a paper voucher.
A $100 gift cardStandard rate
  • Gift card value$100.00
  • Service fee — buyer pays$5.75
  • Customer is charged$105.75
  • You receive$100.00

The total is worked out on our side before the card details are entered, so the number on the button is the number on the statement.

Your Room Only

It comes back to you, not to a marketplace.

A card you issue is good on your shows and nowhere else. Someone can't take it to another producer, and another producer's card won't work on yours. The page it's sold from carries your name and your logo, on your own domain.

On your site

The purchase page sits on your storefront, and there's a Gift Cards block you can drop into your page layout without touching any code.

Balance checks

Anyone holding a code can look up what's left on it. It returns the balance, the status and who issued it — and nothing else about the person who bought it.

Spent at checkout

The code goes in at checkout and comes off the total. Whatever's left stays on the card for next time. More on checkout.

Issue a complimentary cardNo charge
  • Amount$50.00
  • ReasonService recovery
  • Send nowYes
  • Cost to the customerNothing
When A Night Goes Wrong

Put something back in their hand before they leave.

The headliner's flight was cancelled. The sound went. A table waited forty minutes for a drink. You can issue credit on the spot, at no charge, and it lands in their inbox before they've got to the car park.

  • Every comp has a reason on itService recovery, promotional credit, sponsor or VIP. So “what did we give away last quarter” is a question you can answer.
  • Who can do whatReading cards, setting them up, and moving a balance are three separate permissions. Your door staff don't get the third.
Setting It Up

About five minutes, once.

Pick your amounts, write the terms, choose an image. Selling is a single switch — and it's separate from the cards already out there, so you can stop selling in January without killing anything you sold in December.

Fixed amounts, custom amounts, or bothSet the denominations you want on the page. Anything from C$5 to C$500.
Gift it or keep itCollect a recipient and a message, or let someone buy credit for themselves.
Your terms, your wordsWhatever you need to say about expiry, exclusions or transfers sits on the page.
Every card, every movementBalances and the full history of each card, with the ability to adjust or revoke one.

A gift card is emailed as soon as it's bought — there's no scheduling it for a date later in the month. Gift cards are set up on the web, not in ComedyPass Studio.

Have something to say yes to in November.

It's included — no setup, no subscription, and the same buyer-paid fee as a ticket.

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