# Using Gift Cards/Certificates To use a gift card, simply checkout a client or make a sale with the POS, there hit the Add Gift Certificate, and you will have the option to add the number of the Gift Card/Certificate, if you are using our integrated payments, you can also use your issued terminal to swipe your Gift Card number. After the number is enters hit Apply and you will quickly see the balance and the amount remaining in the balance will be applied to the sale. If the amount is less than the sale the balance will remain in the Gift Card for future use

The +Gift Certificate button in the SimpleSpa POS

## Extending Expired Gift Certificates Search for the Gift Certificate in the Gift Certificates page using the general search button

The general Gift Certificate search button

If a Gift Certificate has expired an alert will appear depicting the date of expiration and the balance amount

The warning message showing an expired Gift Certificate

After closing the alert, the Gift Certificate details will appear showing the current balance, date it was sold, the expiration data, the history showing all the redemptions if any, and along with an extend option which will extend the Gift Certificate to be valid for one additional month from the date the button is pressed

The prompt populating the Gift Certificate details and the ability to extend

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