Just in time for holiday gift giving. We now have Gift Certificates towards Dallas Makerspace Memberships available for purchase.
The gift cards are available in $50 and $540 increments until the day after Christmas, then they will go to $60 and $648 increments due to the Jan 1, 2019 price increases.
Just checking for clarification, but I assume $50 now is still $50 worth of dues that might cost $60 later? I’m guessing it’s purely $50 due to wording, but not too hung up if you decide the card is “1 month of membership”. I assume they could be applied student rates as well?
The way the software works, it is a dollar value, not a month value. So if you purchase a $50 cert now that you want to give for someone to use in March, 2019, then that person will need to add $10 for the $60 account. I’ll put the new price gift certs up on line the day after Christmas, (or earlier if there is demand.)
The 2019 rate gift certs are already built, I just have to make them visible when there is enough demand to offset the confusion of having two different “monthly” and two different “yearly” gift cards available.
is “diviable” a word I’m not familiar with, or a typographical error for “divisible”? Either way, what does this imply?
Because I’m thinking: if I gift a $35.00/month member a $50.00 gift card, what happens to $15.00 when said member attempts to redeem? Do they get a $15.00 credit towards another month? Or does it just disappear (which might be the implication of undiviable)?
Which brings me to my second question/suggestion:
I’d just go ahead and make the $60.00/648s available immediately, because who’s going to bitch about getting a Christmas gift of a full month, plus $10.00 (or more) towards next month’s cost?
PS: this is also good marketing, right? First month free, and if you join by December, $10.00 of January’s dues, too!
I’m guessing that “diviable” is either a misspelling or mistranslation of divisible. It is probably a french-Canadian thing. I’ve put in a ticket on it with the vendor. I’m not terribly worried about it.
The diviable thing is more along the lines of someone buying a $1000 gift card and dividing it up to give out as 10 $100 cards. I don’t want to have to deal with the overhead of having that kind of setup. (I did look into it, and while feasible, it is a PITA for volunteer labor to keep track of.)
The gift card shows up as a credit on the account when it is redeemed. Account credits are processed before paypal or credit/debit cards. So if a $50 gift card is given to a “starving hacker” rate member, they will have a $50 credit immediately when they redeem the gift card. When the membership comes due the system will pull $35 from the credit, leaving $15. The next month the system will pull $15 from the credit and $20 from the members credit card.
My dad would like to get me a gift card for Christmas but he’s not a member so he can’t log in. Is it possible for a non-member to buy a gift card?
After clicking “order now” you get this login request, and there’s no way to create an account on this page. Would you know how to get around this/what to do?
Hmmm… There is currently not an easy way for a non-member to create a billing account without creating a membership. I’m looking into how to set that capability up.
In the mean time, you can send an email to [email protected] with a request to create a billing account. I will need name, address, email, and phone to create an account. after it is created, you can login and add credit/debit card info an purchase the gift card.
