Before you start
This needs Gift Cards switched on. An admin turns it on in Settings, under Features.
Step 1: Have a New Student Special to give
In the admin menu: Catalogue, then Passes & Packages
Your gift page sells your New Student Special, one card or two for a couple, and emails the codes to the buyer to hand out. It finds that pass by its name, so the name must contain the words New Student.
Buyers pay online, so Stripe must be connected. Each code lasts one year from purchase, and whoever has it redeems it on your website.
Read Sell a class pack or membershipStep 2: Let people gift a pass to someone by name
In the admin menu: Catalogue, then Passes & Packages
With Gift a package to someone turned on in Features, a buyer can also send one pass to a named person. Open a class card and, under "Giving this as a gift", switch on "Someone can buy this as a gift for another person", then click "Save".
Only class cards can be gifted this way, never memberships. Switching it off stops future gifts and never touches a card already sold.
Step 3: Look up a gift card
In the admin menu: Catalogue, then Shop Items, then Gift Cards
Every gift card sold is listed here with its code, who it is from and for, and who redeemed it. You cannot create one on this screen: cards appear when someone buys them. Search by code or email, or narrow the list with "All Statuses".
This screen sits next to your shop items, and its row appears in the menu once you have added at least one shop item. Until then, use the link on this step.
Step 4: Resend, extend or cancel a card
In the admin menu: Catalogue, then Shop Items, then Gift Cards
"Resend Email" sends the codes to the buyer again. "Extend Expiry" gives an active or expired card a "New Expiry Date"; click "Update Expiry".
"Void" cancels an active card for good. Give a "Reason" and click "Void Card". A card that has been redeemed cannot be voided.