Introducing Gift Cards: the easiest present your restaurant can sell

Sell gift cards online and at the venue — occasion designs, Apple & Google Wallet passes with a live balance, scheduled delivery, printed cards for the counter, and no ResoFlow fee on sales.

A gift card is the easiest sale a restaurant can make: someone else's birthday, a thank-you, a Christmas stocking — and a guaranteed future visit for you. But selling them has usually meant plastic cards from a print shop, a spreadsheet of codes behind the bar, and no answer when a guest rings up asking "how much is left on it?"

From today, it's simply part of ResoFlow.

Sell online, around the clock

Flick one switch and your venue gets its own gift card page — buyers pick an amount (your suggested amounts or their own), choose an occasion design, write a personal message, and send it to the recipient or to themselves. Buying for a birthday next month? They can schedule delivery and the gift email arrives on the morning of the day itself.

The gift email is the present: the spendable code, a QR for the venue, Add to Apple/Google Wallet buttons and a print-at-home certificate for anyone who wants something to wrap.

A gift card that lives in their pocket

Recipients can add their card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet — in your branding — and the balance on the pass updates live after every visit. Everyone else has a balance-check page in your colours, and if a card is getting close to its expiry date, ResoFlow reminds the guest automatically so the gift never quietly goes to waste.

And at the venue

Prefer something guests can hold? Mint a batch of physical cards, print the QR sticker sheets onto your own card stock, and rack them by the door. A card is blank until it sells — staff activate it in seconds from the Scanner or the Gift Cards page, at whatever amount the guest pays.

Spending is just as quick: scan the QR (from the email, the wallet pass, the certificate or the printed card) or type the code, and it comes off the bill. Partial spends simply stay on the same code for next time — and at venues that take gift cards online, guests can put them towards booking deposits and event tickets too.

Your money, your designs, your numbers

Payments go directly to your own Stripe account — ResoFlow charges no platform fee on gift card sales, so you keep 100% of the face value (only Stripe's normal card-processing fee applies). Ten occasion designs — Birthday, Christmas, Thank you and more — are ready to tweak with your greeting, colours and photos, with a live preview of the email and the wallet pass. And the Gift Cards page keeps the numbers honest: what's outstanding on cards, what sold this month, what was redeemed, and what's expiring soon.

Available now

Gift Cards is included on the À la Carte and Chef's Table plans at no extra charge — and as always, 0% commission on table bookings. You'll find Gift cards in your dashboard sidebar today; online selling is off until you switch it on, so set up your designs first and go live when you're ready.

Want it on your plan? Upgrade in Settings → Billing, or try ResoFlow free at resoflow.co.uk.