Gift Cards as a valid form of payment via payment links

Physical and e-gift cards should be accepted as a valid form of payment on a payment link.

 

We already use Square POS for retail in our studio and are considering switching to Square for class registrations as well, specifically so customers can use gift cards from a single system to purchase both online and physical items.

 

Square's current class feature under Appointments is massively lacking, and we would have to use a workaround to allow folks to purchase multiple spots in a class at one time (aka events). We have absolutely no desire to rebuild our entire website with Square Online and simply want to hyperlink the corresponding event payment link to the current class description page.

 

However, in testing the links today, I found that customers cannot use their gift cards to complete the transaction via a payment link. This basically breaks our entire workaround, and we are now back to having to find a different solution. Please look into making this adjustment! I'm sure we are not the only ones who would benefit from having this available for customers. 

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Square Champion

Interesting.  @_TheWorks .   I would have thought that the gift card functionality works the same in appointments as it does in POS.   I did a test though and could only generate a "something went wrong" message when trying to use a Square gift card as a payment for an appointment.   Can you confirm @JessPoynter that gift cards don't work? 

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