Salon & Barbershop · Gift card sample
The gift that books their next chair. The Velvet Chair's gift cards are bought in a minute and delivered by email — the recipient books when they're ready, and the shop already has the sale. A card is a future appointment with the money already in.
Give a gift card
Birthdays, holidays, and the classic 'you deserve a day' gift. Pick the amount, write the note — in the live program the card is emailed the moment you check out.
Email preview — what the recipient gets
$50.00 gift card
Your The Velvet Chair gift card is ready. Show this code at the counter or enter it at checkout:
XXXX-0000-0000
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Check your balance any time on the The Velvet Chair gift card page.
Gift cards are valid for at least five years from purchase. Codes are stored hashed — keep this email; a lost code can't be re-sent, but the shop can void and replace the card.
Check a balance
Enter a gift card code to see its live balance and status. New here? Try one of this demo's sample codes:
Demo note: this sample keeps cards on this device only, so you can play with it. The live program keeps them on The Velvet Chair's system, and any code checks against the real balance.
How it works
Step 1
Twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred dollars — enough for a cut, most of a color service, or the full chair.
Step 2
Delivered instantly with the full code and your message — no envelope, no trip to the shop.
Step 3
The recipient books their chair and pays with the code — one card per visit, balance checkable any time.
For the business
A gift card program is only worth running if it pays the house back. This is the owner's side of the same system:
And the books stay clean: codes are stored hashed, liability is the live sum of active balances, and a lost code is a void + replacement — never a leak.
What the owner sees on their phone. Live from this demo's own numbers for The Velvet Chair.
Flip to Merchant HQ at the top of this page for the full card ledger — void, recredit, and manual issue included.
Merchant HQ · The Velvet Chair
This is the owner's side of the same system the customer just used: every card sold, what has been redeemed, and the number that matters at tax time — outstanding liability, exact to the cent.
Sample HQ — the cards below are fictional sample data for The Velvet Chair. Anything you do in the customer view on this device — issuing a card — appears here live, marked (you). Nothing leaves this device.
Every card, masked
| Code | Buyer → Recipient | Amount | Balance | Status | Actions |
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Codes are stored hashed in the live system — HQ only ever shows the masked form. The full code exists in the recipient's email and nowhere else. A lost code can't be re-sent: void the card here and issue a replacement.
At the counter
For the customer standing in front of you — sold at the counter, delivered the same way.
Live from the floor
Issues, voids, and recredits land here the moment they happen — the ledger the owner watches.
How the house is protected