Is it possible to pre-load physical gift cards?

[flyouthcamp]

Each year we host a youth camp and we sell the physical gift cards to the campers. The campers purchase these during the on-campus registration, but I would like to pre-load some gift cards to make the registration and payment process faster. Is this possible? If so, how?

[alexandriak]

I'm not sure if there's an official way to do this BUT off the top of my head I would say to load a bunch and ring them under an other payment tender. Then collect the cash for those cards. Any cards the campers want to use a credit card for you could just ring up as usual. This may help speed up the process a little bit. 

[alexandriak]

You could also "refund" any of the pre-loaded cards you didn't sell that day as well, just make sure if you do this you go into the gift card balances as well for those cards and remove the balance after you "Refund"