{"id":168,"date":"2019-07-29T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/helpcenter2020\/1\/how-do-i-activate-a-gift-card\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:14:45","slug":"how-do-i-activate-a-gift-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/account-management\/how-do-i-activate-a-gift-card\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I activate a gift card?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To activate a gift card, you need to add value to it using the activate card function. To do this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option 1<\/strong>. Complete the steps in the following video:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Activate a Gift Card\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PItHa2aNilA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Option 2<\/strong>. Complete the following steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>On the toolbar, click <strong>Virtual Terminal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>From the side menu, click <strong>Activate Card<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the Card Information:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Type the <strong>Card Number<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>(Optional) Use the month and year drop-down menus to select the <strong>Expiration Date<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Type the Order Information:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>(Optional) <strong>Customer ID<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>(Optional) <strong>Invoice Number<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amount&nbsp;<\/strong>you are adding to the gift card.<\/li>\n<li>(Optional) <strong>Notes&nbsp;<\/strong>relating to the activation for future reference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Click <strong>Activate Gift Card<\/strong>. The Payments Portal confirms the activation was successful.<\/li>\n<li>(Optional) Click <strong>Email or Print Receipt<\/strong> to send a receipt by email or to print a receipt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To activate a gift card, you need to add value to it using the activate card function. To do this: Option 1. Complete the steps in the following video: Option 2. Complete the following steps: On the toolbar, click Virtual Terminal. From the side menu, click Activate Card. Enter the Card Information: Type the Card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n <div style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\" class=\"page-blu\"><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/account-management\/how-do-i-activate-a-gift-card\/\">Read More <\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,45,222],"tags":[391,392,393,124,394,31,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}