A gift voucher or certificate is a piece of paper or electronic card loaded with a value that's later exchanged for goods or services. When you sell a gift voucher, the customer is holding an asset of your business until the voucher is redeemed. So when you record the sale of a gift voucher, it needs to be recorded as a liability posted to an Unclaimed Gift Certificate account. When the customer redeems the voucher, all you need to do is create an invoice and pay for it using the funds from the Unclaimed Gift Certificate account. This way, you can easily track the value of outstanding gift vouchers or write-off any that remain unredeemed. OK, let's take you through the details. UI Expand |
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title | 1. Create an Unclaimed Gift Voucher account |
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| You'll first want to create a liability account which will hold the value of issued gift vouchers. - The Account Type will be Credit Card
- Name the account something that suits your list. In our example, we chose Unclaimed Gift Vouchers
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title | 2. Record the sale of a gift card |
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| When you sell a gift voucher, record it using a Receive Money transaction. This lets you allocate the funds to the Unclaimed Gift Vouchers account created earlier. Here's our example for the sale of a $100 gift voucher: Image RemovedImage Added |
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title | How do I determine the value of unclaimed gift vouchers? |
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| To determine the value of all unclaimed gift vouchers, check the balance of the Unclaimed Gift Vouchers liability account by running the Accounts List (Summary) report (Reports > Index to Reports > Accounts > Accounts List (Summary)). |
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title | How can I see a history of gift vouchers sold and redeemed? |
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| To see a history of gift vouchers sold and redeemed, check the transaction history of the Unclaimed Gift Vouchers liability account: - Click Find Transactions and click the Account tab.
- Select the Unclaimed Gift Vouchers account.
- Specify the desired date range. Credit transactions represent gift voucher sales, and debit transactions represent gift voucher redemptions.
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title | How do I write-off unredeemed gift vouchers? |
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| Unredeemed gift vouchers represent income, so they can be written off using a Receive Money transaction. For this transaction: - Select the Deposit to Account option then select the Unclaimed Gift Voucher liability account.
- In the Amount Received, enter the value of the gift voucher being written off.
- In the Acct No. field, select the relevant income account. If you want to track unredeemed gift vouchers seperately, you can create an income account for this purpose.
- Specify the relevant tax/GST code. Check with your accounting advisor if you're not sure which code to use.
Recording this transaction will reduce the balance of the Unclaimed Gift Vouchers liability account and credit the balance of the chosen income account.
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