topic Charging an Admission as a gift card purchase in Bar & Nightclub

Charging an Admission as a gift card purchase

Handlebarjaz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:15:27 GMT

Hi,

I have a Nite club/restaurant, our challenge is customers coming in and staying all night and not spending enough to be there.
so, we would like to be able ro have a customer purchase say a $25 gift card to get in.
the GC won’t expire, but that guarantees each customer will spend a certain amount of money per visit and we eliminate freeloaders.
we would also be adding a service fee to the GC as well as perhaps an admission.

ie purchase a $25 GC of which say $20 can be used for purchase of f and b or merch (GC cannot be used for tax and grat).

the issue is: how can this be a relatively fast transaction if there is a line of people at the gate.
it needs to be a 2-3 min transaction somehow.

i was thinking Toast could just issue a receipt and that receipt is basically a gif card?

anyone have any suggestions or ideas how to implement this?

Re: Charging an Admission as a gift card purchase

Rob — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:40:34 GMT

You may need to sell "paper gift certificates" to get this to be fast. Then swap them out for gift cards at the bar later? However, we don't offer paper gift certificates.

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Re: Charging an Admission as a gift card purchase

nbunda — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:58:37 GMT

Physical gift cards seems like the fastest option for this, so that remaining balance is still tracked. Agree with @Rob that for speed, you can print some kind of voucher or token to hand out at the door after the full $25 has been paid, then redeem those vouchers for gift cards later at the bar or some other stand. Set up a payment method called “admission voucher”. Cashier there would load a $20 gift card and then cash it out using that payment method after collecting the customer’s voucher.

You could also use Customer Credits, but Issuing customer credits for the customer’s first visit would require a full name and phone number. They’re more geared toward getting dissatisfied guests to come back.