Gift certificate: layout from scratch step by step, free

Gift certificates are a popular trend: a convenient gift, suitable for any occasion. This option allows you not to struggle with searching for a product or service, but to provide a person with the opportunity to buy what he needs. A gift card is a document confirming an advance payment, which gives the right to choose a product or service in a store for an equivalent amount or to receive a service specified in the form. The certificate can be a magnetic card with a barcode, a numbered coupon, printed on a printer.

It contains the details:

logo of the company that provided the certificate;
denomination – the amount of the advance payment;
series and certificate number;
validity period: until what date, period from the date of sale, unlimited;
Terms of Use.

Why do you need a certificate?

This certificate became an analogue of gift money in an envelope. There are several advantages:

allows you to gain loyalty: the provision of such a service attracts consumers and creates pleasant associations with the company;
increases sales: market research has shown that a person who comes with a certificate spends a larger amount on the purchase than indicated;
brand promotion: distributing certificates can bring new clients to the company, who can become regular ones;
product distribution: offering gift certificates for new products, services, mater classes, massages and beauty treatments, you can attract the attention of consumers to them.

Certificates for stores

We all know the phrase from the famous movie and famous song: “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” This is true. Girls love jewelry or fashionable stylish jewelry. Certificates can be purchased directly in stores or online. The chain of jewelry stores Adamas, 585 sells electronic certificates in the form of gift cards.

And how nice it will be for a girl to choose a fur coat in the Snow Queen fur store! How easy it is to make a person happy - just give a gift certificate to a woman, the maximum denomination of which is 100,000 rubles. The largest cosmetics and perfumery stores in Russia have gift certificates. This:

Rive Gauche;
Ile de Beaute;
Yves Rocher;
L'Etoile.

Clothing and shoe stores offering certificates:

Kari;
Zara;
O'stin;
Reebok;
Adidas;
The Snow Queen;
Modis;
TSUM.

Difference between certificate and card

The certificate, as well as the card, are functionally the same: there is a certain amount of funds that is exchanged for the product; the number by which their use/non-use is tracked is indicated.

But there are also differences : the card is in the form of a plastic carrier, which can be programmed several times by depositing the required amounts; The certificate is printed on cardboard and can be used once.

Useful tips

Tip 1. If you give a gift certificate to your husband for several wishes, then you can do it in the form of a book.

It will take more time and you will need to work hard, but the result will definitely please you.

Each wish will have its own page; it is possible to decorate everything in the same style, or each page in its own way. As you wish. It will be unusual, and you can give such a book for any event.

Tip 2. You can use ready-made templates when writing text inside cards and certificates.

But it’s better to write wishes based on what you know well.

You also need to take into account what your lover wants and dreams of.

Perhaps he doesn't like cinema, but wants to go to the opera.
Or maybe your loved one doesn’t like sweets, then you won’t add chocolate inside the surprise.
Desires must be real, because you still have to fulfill them, and, of course, with pleasure.

This must be taken into account.

Tip 3. The size of the gift certificate will depend on the number and volume of wishes and wishes.

You can decorate it, no matter how thick or thin it is, in addition to decorative elements, with your shared photographs. This will be an even more unique surprise.

Features of certificates

The denomination specified in the certificate is an advance payment for future purchases.
By purchasing it, you enter into a transaction with the company, agreeing to buy a product or receive a service from the assortment provided by the organization within a prescribed time period at prices valid on the day of purchasing the certificate.
Anyone who presents a certificate can receive goods or services.
If the selected goods are more expensive than the amount in the certificate, the holder can pay the difference in cash.
If the goods or services purchased through the certificate are not of high quality, then you can receive warranty service in the usual manner prescribed by law.
The certificate cannot be exchanged for money equal to its face value.
If the certificate has expired, it can no longer be exchanged for a product or service.
If the certificate is damaged or there is doubt about its authenticity, the company has the right not to provide goods under it.

Certificates for training

People love to learn. Especially women. And it doesn’t even matter why. Master classes on cooking, makeup, face and body care are especially popular among girls.

And then why not give a gift to a loved one - give a certificate for a girl’s birthday for a makeup master class, for example?

You can buy gift passes for all kinds of training courses, both one-time and multi-day. One-day master classes:

on photo posing;
on makeup;
magic tricks for adults;
driving a motorcycle;
wine tasting;
teaching pottery art;
dance for two;
in French, Italian and other national cuisine;
golf;
on skiing.

But the most interesting lesson is on enamel jewelry. Give a certificate for a girl's birthday, and she will make herself a unique piece of jewelry using Carl Faberge technology. Working with enamel is an incredibly creative process. A professional artist, a specialist in enamel technique, explains the secrets of the technology, and at this time the photographer takes professional photographs. The result of the training is a certificate stating that the person has studied the enameling technique. And of course, handmade silver jewelry.

How to create a gift certificate yourself: step-by-step instructions

You can order the development and printing of a gift certificate at a printing house, where a group of employees will make a personal design at your request. But you can also make a layout yourself.

It’s not that difficult: you just need to develop a design, choose suitable materials and think through the content. You can do everything on your computer using a text editor. Or you can use online services. Let's explore the options step by step.

We create a certificate on a PC using templates from the Internet

You can create a gift certificate in Microsoft Word using the provided templates.

For this:

open the application;
In the search bar, click “file” and select “create” from the menu that opens
In the search bar, specify “certificate” and click “search”;
in the window that appears, select the template you like;
On the left side of the preview window, select “create”;
fill with text;
print it out.

After printing, you should cut the frames in a circle. In accordance with our imagination, we decorate with additional elements: rhinestones, ribbons, carvings.

We create a certificate on a PC without using templates

To independently develop a certificate from scratch, you should follow these steps:

open Word;
create an empty document;
In the menu of the “insert” tab, select “picture”;
in the dialog box that opens, click on the background image and look for the “open” button in the right corner;
then return to the “insert” menu and click “text field”;
using the menu that appears, draw a text input field where we need it;
enter the required text;
print the document.

We create a gift certificate using online services

Open one of the existing online applications for developing certificates. Log in and register using your Google or Facebook accounts.

Then we perform a simple sequence:

launch the application;
find the “gift certificates” button;
select a suitable sample in the sections holidays, colors, styles, etc.;
working on the design: dragging and dropping, adding elements (shapes, frames, stickers), changing the size, color, shape of the text;
save to the device;
print it out.

In such services, you can always return to development and adjust in accordance with new parameters.

How to give an online certificate in an original way? 3 IT and 7 universal ideas

Ho-ho-ho, Khabrovsk residents! Today we will prepare magic dust so that a digital gift will evoke the same exciting anticipation as a package under the tree. In this article, we thought about everyone: the lazy and pranksters, analysts and programmers of all stripes, companies and our best friends who will be spending the New Year away from you. In the head elf's cap - Katya Ivanova, creator of OTUS

Hello! For me, the New Year is a celebration of the sensory. All these soft blankets and funny hats, frosty cheeks, scalding tea and tangerine-smelling hugs, the aromas of spices, pickles and baked chicken, a kaleidoscope of lights, the ringing of bells, Christmas jingles, the rustling of wrapping paper and excitement. I really want to share all this with my loved ones, but quarantine has imposed many restrictions - even many corporate parties are held in Zoom.

Due to the same isolation, the relevance of gift certificates and online activities has increased. You can’t go wrong with your choice and you don’t have to wait for a face-to-face meeting to congratulate you. And yet there is one “but”: simply sending appearances and passwords = killing all the New Year’s magic. There is little emotion in this format. But it is curiosity, anticipation, intrigue that leave the most vivid impressions and matter more than the gift itself. So if Santa could get creative with his task, that's doubly nice.

The purpose of this article is to inspire you and offer several ideas for different circumstances and time commitments. Of course, “print out the certificate, put it in a box with cognac and send it by courier” also works well, but I thought there were already so many such collections, so I focused on the online format.

A small educational program if you have never purchased online certificates. When purchasing, they send you an identification number or promotional code, as we do at OTUS; less often, they send a special one. registration link. Many companies immediately offer to send a gift to the recipient’s email, so in order not to ruin the surprise, we indicate our contacts.

Something you can handle in half an hour!

A wish from the heart

Record a video or voice, come up with a poem or just a sincere text and add it to the certificate. In your message, you can note the qualities and achievements that a person has shown this year, and wish him something that you think will be useful to him next year. Pie poems are also still in fashion

when the New Year was cancelled, I didn’t even move my mustache; I wish I could eat tangerines with flavor

Puzzle with QR code

Encrypt the certificate data into a QR code. Divide it into fragments in a graphics editor or print it and take a series of photographs. Send the pieces randomly like a mini-puzzle.

Virtual postcard

Yes, yes, like the ones that our great aunt sends us on WhatsApp for any reason, but without the epilepsy from sparkles and flying doves.
For this, artistic skills are not required; you can design a postcard using Canva, Crello, SUPA services or a meme generator, leaving your warm wishes for 2021. By the way, about memes. If in the fire of deadlines you missed out on the latest news, then I’ll give you a hint: the trends of the outgoing year are now guys in a vape shop and a mysterious monolith.

Thinking about what to give to an IT specialist? Gift certificates for studying at OTUS! Select the appropriate option -> otus.pw/PQ5f

The main thing here is to have enough time to prepare. The secret to success is to simplify and don’t be a perfectionist.

Advent calendar

The essence of the Advent calendar is to prepare for Christmas and enter this day with some awareness of how you have changed over the year, where you are now and what you want from the upcoming one. These are small tasks for every day with a reward. You can come up with your own calendar with tasks, and for each completed task, open the next number of the gift certificate.

Congratulations site

Collect photos and screenshots from Skype together this year.
Remember what you associate with a person, what do you want to wish him in the New Year? Add holiday tracks, funny videos and motivational gifs, a selection of films or ideas on how to spend the holidays while maintaining the quarantine regime. Put it all together using Tilda or Carrd templates. And remember, in this case the design is not the main thing, the main thing is the idea itself and your attention!

Quest

Turn the entire digital world into a quest field.
One-page sites, social networks, telegram, Zoom, Miro, multi-user online drawing machines, QR, AR technologies, YouTube, Spotify and even the command line can help you. The same Tilda, by the way, is good for its ability to quickly add interactive elements to the site. The general idea is to start with a clue and guide your friend through a series of riddles.

The hardest thing is to use a Telegram bot (you can just make a new account and pretend to be a bot yourself).

Game (Bonus option for experienced players).

Using standard Googling you can find ready-made code for some simple game. Like those that children learn to do in Scratch. Replace the main character's avatar with a photo or pic of your friend, add a little New Year's mood, and at the end of the level - congratulations and certificate data.
Add a line with congratulations and certificate data to your code and ask a colleague to review it with a non-suspicious person. Advanced version - add some kind of Christmas tree to the Easter egg. For example, I liked this one in C++.

#include using namespace std; int main(){ int a ; cin >>a;int w=a*2+5;for (int x= 0;x= 0;-y){for(int z=0; z<<" ";}for( int z=0; z<<“.";}cout <<<" ";}for( int z=0;z<<"#";}cout < Don't miss the opportunity to collect more data and learn something new about your recipient! You can do a Google Foam poll or test and find out how your friend has behaved this year, don't forget to ask if he takes responsibility for showing up in his pajamas in the middle of a Zoom meeting, and go over the sore point: ask if he finished at least one online course during isolation. At the end, determine how much of a bad boy/girl he was, and send wishes and a gift. There is huge scope for original ways to exchange gifts: prepare and conduct a quiz, make a gift using pantomime or a drawing, hide a QR -code with access to the certificate in the room in the background, etc. Build a Santa Claus or Snow Maiden costume and call your friend. Be persistent enough and do not give the key to the gift until the rhyme on the stool is read to you on the other side of the screen.

And if you have a friend who is an IT specialist, he will probably be glad to have the opportunity to save money on upgrading his professional skills in the new year. Certificates for training at OTUS have been prepared especially for this case.

I hope I have convinced you that a virtual gift can also be presented in an interesting way. It's not that difficult, but it will definitely become a good memory for both you and your loved ones. As they say, don’t expect miracles - create miracles yourself!

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Saving and printing a certificate

When creating a gift certificate in Word, we can save it in any format: TXT, JPEG, PNG or PDF. When working with online services, we will use saving in JPEG, PNG or PDF. Then, at any time, you can print certificates in any quantity on paper of any density and texture.

You can print the received materials in several ways:

We can print on your home printer by simply connecting it to your PC. You can use either plain thick paper or photo paper or cardboard. Select “file” from the menu bar. Click on the “print” button. In the “Print Settings” window, make the necessary settings: size, gamma, quantity. Then click “print”.
You can turn to the popular Vistaprint service and order online printing. To do this, we will upload the finished version to the website, indicate all the dimensions and wait for a response. You can also order a branded envelope here.
Use the services of a printing house. Having arrived there, you can order a certificate or give your version for printing, having discussed all the details. Wait until the order is ready.

Gift certificates for one or more wishes

It is not always necessary to give things to loved ones; sometimes it is worth coming up with something more interesting. You can make a certificate for the fulfillment of a wish with your own hands; choose a beautiful design for it. For example, you can download a template that suits the meaning, insert your own text into it and print it.

Certificate for the fulfillment of one wish. You can choose something simple and something serious, count on what your loved one will like best.
For your loved one, you can get a certificate for a day of SPA treatments, and let her and her girlfriends go to the salon, while you look after the children or tidy up the house.
“Weekend in Nature” certificate; let them calmly go with tents and fishing rods, and you will just support this decision.
Universal certificate for men and women “Release from household duties for the whole day”, the one who gives such a desire takes it upon himself, and the other half can relax.
A humorous gift certificate will be appreciated by couples who face this problem every evening : “The right to choose a family movie”
Back massage, foot massage or full body massage . This is a great gift for relaxation and the opportunity to be alone together. This type of massage is far from professional, but it is done with your favorite hands, which is why it is the most desirable.
Any erotic desire will definitely be appreciated. Present your surprise beautifully, decorate the certificate with roses, candles, hearts, choose a beautiful font, and create a romantic atmosphere around.
Certificate for three wishes. Choose a template with a goldfish, add your name there, and the name of the person for whom this gift is intended. Leave blank lines for wishes and dates. Print out the template and frame it, but without glass, so you can write in your wishes. If we take the goldfish as a basis, then it is worth remembering that it did not dictate desires, but asked. Therefore, when choosing such a gift, you must be ready to fulfill any of the three wishes. Of course, your significant other is unlikely to start demanding an IPhone from you when the family doesn’t have money for it, so with a trusting relationship, you can be sure that you can fulfill all your desires.
Certificate with points. This type of certificate implies the fulfillment of several desires, each of which has a certain value. For example, you give a certificate for 10,000 points, and separately describe any desires and their cost. These can be both “cheap” desires and “expensive” ones. For example, cooking any dish is 1000 points, and warm hugs are 150 points. It is better to make such a certificate in the form of a postcard. The serious amount of 10,000 points on the cover will attract attention. And what you can spend it on will be written inside the postcard. You can select a beautiful font and pictures for design in the Word editor.
The certificate is decorative. Such a certificate can be printed in a printing house on beautiful paper and beautifully framed in a baguette. They are usually made not for any specific desire, but as a declaration of love and a promise of a happy relationship. These certificates are suitable for wedding anniversaries, relationship anniversaries and Valentine's Day.

Certificates can be presented simply with a sheet of paper, they can be framed, or they can be laminated.

Best Online Services

There are many services online with ready-made templates for all types of certificates and gift cards. They are both paid and free.

We choose the option you like and work on the design. Let's look at a few frequently visited resources:

Canva is a popular graphics editor that provides hundreds of templates for registered users. Allows you to personalize each one by adding graphics, pictures, changing text. After all the manipulations, we receive a certificate for further printing.

123certificates is a site with access to thematic and universal designs for any graphic work. Allows you to quickly create a certificate online for free. You can change the font, color, graphics, sizes.

Adobe Spark is a tool from Adobe: a designer of certificates, business cards, postcards. First, we indicate the size, select a template, then add a picture and format the text. Download the finished file to your PC and print it.

Shopify – When you register on this platform, you can create a certificate for online purchases. Personalization is minimal: add your logo.

Crello is an easy-to-use editor that allows you to come up with creative texts, change color, size, arrangement of elements, insert photos and logos.

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