# Gift Certificate

### Gift Certificate

**Provider**

Enable the Gift Certificate provider that is interfacing with Maitre'D.

**Merchant number**

Enter the merchant number provided by the Gift Certificate Company.

**Split Tender Transaction**

Enable this option to accept partial payment from a gift certificate card whose available amount is lower then the invoice's total. In such a case, the card is emptied, and the remaining amount must be closed with another payment type.

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NOTE: Check with your service provider to ensure that this feature is supported.
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**Print Receipt on Purchase**

Enable this option to force the printing of a regular receipt when purchasing a gift card through the employee's special menu.

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NOTE: This option has no effect when selling a gift card at the end of a regular sale transaction.
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### **Communication**

**Time Out**

Delay in second before Maitre'D will assume that the provider does not respond. This setting will depend on the type of connection you have (Dialup, Intranet).

**Retry Delay**

Delay in second used by the POS workstation to poll the Back-Office application and check if there is an answer back from the provider. If you set this delay too short, you will generate a lot of traffic on the network.

**IP Address**

Enter the TCP/IP address or server name of gift certificate provider's server.

**TCP/IP Port**

Enter the TCP/IP port number you are allowed to connect through on the gift certificate provider's server.

**Password**

Enter the store password to access the Gift Certificate server.

**Domain**

Enter the domain supplied by the Gift Certificate provider.

**Seller Profile ID**

Enter the seller profile ID supplied by the Gift Certificate provider.

**Profile ID**

Enter the profile ID supplied by the Gift Certificate provider.

**Currency**

Select USD for United States Dollars, or CAD for Canadian Dollars, according to your configuration on the gift certificate provider's server.

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NOTE: You can still accept Gift Certificate cards from the United States or Canada.
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### Option

**Keep Trans.**

Enter the number of days to keep gift certificate transactions in the archive file.

**Manager Password**

Enable this option to force the use of a manager password to perform gift certificate functions on the workstation, such as registration, activation, increment and cancellation.

**Use Registration Function**

Enable this option to allow the use of the register function on the workstation.

**Use Increment Function**

Enable this option to allow the use of the increment function on the workstation.

**Cancel Issue**

Enable this option to accept negative amount activation as a cancellation of the card with the Mercury Pay interface.

**No Provider Selection**

Enable this option to always use the remote provider for gift certificates. Otherwise, you will have to select between local or remote provider for each gift certificate transaction at the workstation.

**Multiple Activation**

Enable this option to allow for multiple Gift Card activations before asking for the payment type, to be able to use the same Credit Card, for example.

**Don't Send Terminal ID**

Enable this option to remove the Workstation Number from the XML file sent to the provider.

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NOTE: This option is available only if the Provider is set to EFT Gift Cert.
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### **Directory**

Enable here the path of the folder that the Gift Certificate provider communication engine will monitor. Use the folder icon to browse to your shared directory.

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### **Log**

**Level**

Enable the Log Level type you want to use for operations trace

![Button - View Log](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/MaitreDCommon/Buttons/MDButton-ViewLog.gif)

Use the View/Log button to open and view log.