PayPal Merchant Gift Certificates Guide

PayPal Merchant Gift Certificates let you sell personalized gift certificates on you website. As soon as you create and publish Buy Gift Certificate buttons, customers and visitors can begin purchasing and redeeming your gift certificates.

Merchant gift certificates can be redeemed only for merchandise or services that you sell online. eBay Gift Certificates are sold on eBay.com and can be redeemed only for auction items and merchandise sold on eBay.

N O T E : Gift certficates that you create and sell by using Merchant Gift Certificates are not redeemable for your eBay listings.

Overview
This guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 2, “Creating Gift Certificates” – learn how to create and publish Buy Gift Certificate buttons to sell personalized gift certificates for your website.
Chapter 3, “The Checkout Experience with Merchant Gift Certificates” – learn about your customers’ experience when they purchase and redeem your gift certificates.
Chapter 4, “Gift Certificate Activity & Terms” – learn about merchant gift certificate sales and redemption activity in your account.
IMPO RTANT: Please review the PayPal User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Terms and Conditions if you plan to sell merchant gift certificates.

Getting Started With Merchant Gift Certificates
To begin offering merchant gift certificates from your website, you will need:

• A PayPal Premier or Business account. To sign up for a PayPal account, go to https://www.paypal.com and click the Sign Up link. If you have a personal account, click the Upgrade Account link on your Account Overview page.
• A website where you can copy and paste the HTML code for your Buy Gift Certificate button
• About a half hour to create and publish the HTML code for your Buy Gift Certificate button. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Creating Gift Certificates.”

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