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Why would you need a third party? Security? Fault tolerance. Why not just 
store gift certificate values & IDs in a table in the shopping cart? A 
unique gift certificate row id can be easily turned into a hash. And InnoBD 
can be used to ensure the integrity of balance transactions.

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:33:42 -0500, Scott Mattocks wrote
> Marc Antony Vose wrote:
> > Hi there:
> > 
> > I built and maintain a shopping site.  They've asked me to implement 
> > a gift certificate feature, and I was wondering what strategies 
> > people use to create gift certificate codes which can be emailed?
> 
> Check with the payment gateway that you are using. Some of them have 
> this type of thing already set up. You can use a slightly modified 
> API to create and redeem the codes. I know that CyberSource offers 
> gift certificates an I am sure that others do to.
> 
> 
http://www.cybersource.com/products_and_services/electronic_payments/gift_and
_prepaid_certificates/
> 
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