We currently use bar codes and RMS's voucher feature for gift cards. The gift card we printed were double sided and about $0.90 per card. We have a large number of fully redeemed gift cards, many in excellent condition.
Is it possible and/or advisable to delete the data associated with the fully redeemed cards and resell them?
This is not only good for the environment, but also to keep our costs lower.
Good idea. We tested this and it should work. While we often resell cards to add value for a single customer, we historically have not done this across different customers. By deleting the serial number, it looks like there are still records of the serial number transactions, but the cashier has a "cleaner" history with which to deduct balances.
In short, your idea should work.
As for the bookkeeping, seems like POS integrated well with quickbooks - at least for us to analyze sales and profits from different departments. We did notice that the POS doesn't distinguish between gift card sales in it's graphics, so in a sense it double counts the gift cards as sales in its reports.
"whale> It is possible to delete the data on sold cards. You need to go to the
I'm glad to hear it will work out for you. As far as financials are concere=ned did you ever have a look and Microsoft's "Small Business Financials"? It's very inexpensive and looks to have all the features we want since we are on spreadsheets now I don't really ahve a clear vision of what it should do.
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You can run a report (I do it every two weeks when I do payroll) to get the total of all vouchers (gift certificate and store credits) sold and then make an adjusting entry to sales on the accounting end to correct for the 'double' sale of gift certifcates.
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