Maral Rapp | Mesh Works review for Rise.ai: Gift Cards & Loyalty

May 26, 2020

Shopify is amazing - but they can't be all things to all people. The Rise Gift Card app for Shopify is THE professional presentation option. Gift Cards are what they do, and if you want a gift card on your Shopify store, this seems the only way to go. It’s painless and easy to make a simple gift card - and you can even add your own custom colors to go with your store's branding, which isn't much more complicated. Gift cards mailed as an actual gift: For gift cards that will be emailed directly to someone else, as a gift, you have several real advantages - professional touches that I've only found with Rise: 1.) That the gift card can be mailed directly to another person! Shopify's native gift card can only be sent to the purchaser, and they must forward it on. 2.) If you care about your store's branding (and you'd better!) you can make a few of your OWN Gift Card designs, that fit with your store, and your customer can select which they want sent. Professionalism is worth it. GET RISE! Last Note: Discounted Gift Cards: If you want to apply a discount incentive on your gift cards - it's EASY in Rise. And the last time I checked (early 2020), the native Shopify "discounted" gift cards didn’t work. Example: Shopify will say a 20% discount is set up, "pay $80 for a $100 gift card," but the value of the card ends up being only what was actually paid: $80.