Below is the suggested procedure to sell and load a gift card with in the ACR system when using an EFTPOS terminal to load the card. The procedure is to process two sales as follows –
Sale 1 – Sale of the Gift Card
Set up a product for the gift card “Gift Card Item” as a standard stock item, this may or may not have a small cost (say .70c). At Point of Sale sell this product with a quantity of 1 at the value of the gift card (say $100), so the invoice total will be $100 and can be paid by any means desired. This invoice would be given to the customer.
Sale 2 – Loading of the Gift Card
Set up a product for loading the gift card “Gift Card Load” as a miscellaneous item with 100% cost. At Point of Sale sell this product with a quantity of -1 at the value of the gift card (say $100), so the invoice total will be $-100 paid by EFTPOS (using the actual gift card itself to process the transaction) so that the card gets loaded with the $-100 payment which will produce a card balance of $100. This invoice would presumably be discarded.
Result in ACR system
The result of the two sales is a sale value of $0.00, a GP value of the negative value of the stock cost of the Gift Card Item (say -0.70c), and the stock holding of the Gift Card Item being correctly reduced.