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[Scott Mattocks]

Marc Antony Vose wrote:
> Hi there:
> 
> I built and maintain a shopping site.  They've asked me to implement 
> a gift certificate feature, and I was wondering what strategies 
> people use to create gift certificate codes which can be emailed?

Check with the payment gateway that you are using. Some of them have 
this type of thing already set up. You can use a slightly modified API 
to create and redeem the codes. I know that CyberSource offers gift 
certificates an I am sure that others do to.

http://www.cybersource.com/products_and_services/electronic_payments/gift_and_prepaid_certificates/

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Scott Mattocks
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