How to Send an eCard with a Gift Card

If you are looking for a great way to celebrate someone in your life’s special day, we have the perfect idea for you. Send them an online eCard with a gift card attached! It is the best of both worlds: a personalized and heartfelt message from the team and a gift card that they can use however they want. It really might be the perfect gift—although we’re a little biased. 

It is important to celebrate the special occasions in your employee’s lives, whether professional or personal. Each employee should feel seen and appreciated. Celebrating their big day with an online group greeting card is a great way to do that. 

Sometimes the occasion is such a big deal that you want to celebrate with a little something extra, like a gift card. You will not believe how easy and convenient it is to attach a digital gift card to your group eCard. It takes moments and has a big impact. Let’s talk about how:

What are eCards? 

Online group greeting cards are digital ecards that can be created, signed, and sent online. They can be group cards, meaning they can be signed by many different people. They are so convenient and can be completed in just moments. Say goodbye to running to the store for a physical card and trying to coordinate a group to sign it. 

Another positive to an online greeting card is that you can customize it any way you want. You do not have to choose from just a couple of standard templates. There are so many options and you can always tweak it to be what you need.  You can even add pictures, videos, gifs, etc. to personalize the greeting card further. 

Once everyone has signed the online greeting card, it is then sent to the recipient digitally. This can be through email, text, or an integration with a communication platform. The cards can easily be downloaded to the recipient’s computer or device or pulled up online so that they can look at their cards whenever they want. 

How to Create an eCard Before Adding a Gift Card

Kudoboard makes the process of creating a custom online greeting card so simple. It only takes moments to create your customized card, get friends and family to contribute, and send the eCard to your recipient. 

With Kudoboard, there are three easy steps to follow and you can have your card sent to your recipient in moments. 

Customize your eCard

Head on over to Kudoboard, click “Create a Board” and choose the occasion you would like to celebrate. The site is user-friendly and easy to navigate. Follow the process for customizing the board and creating your main message and graphic. Then you can add your unique post to the board and step one is complete. 

Send Invites for Others to Post

Now, you can invite the team, friends, and family to post on the board you created. Once you make the eCard, you will get a link for invitations that you can send through email, text, or a comms system like Slack.

The contributors will simply click on the link and add their well wishes for the recipient. Online greeting cards have unlimited space so there is none of that trying to squeeze your message into limited space. 

Attach a Digital Gift Card with Kudoboard

Once you have created your custom eCard, you can attach a gift card in moments. You do want to make sure you do this before sending out your invites to others.

When creating your eCard, make sure to select the gift card option from the settings screen. Under the status window, you can choose whether to have the card funded by the creator of crowdfunded by all participants. This enables the “add to gift card” button on the eCard, giving you or the team access.

Solo funding allows the creator to manage gift card loading and balance. It’s great for companies that have a pre-established gift budget for special occasions. It’s also great for contributors collecting donations offline or using a corporate card.

Crowdfunding Your Gift Card

One of the best parts about Kudoboard is the ability to crowdfund your gift card. This means that when each contributor writes their unique message on the board, they can also add money to the card at that time. If you are working with a budget, this is a great way to go in on a group gift for someone. Minimum contributions start at just $5, making it more accessible for a variety of people to contribute.

Contributions to the gift card are always anonymous, so there will not be any visibility as to who contributed or how much they contributed. This will relieve the pressure on team members who may not be in a position to contribute at that time.

Selecting a Gift Card

Another great feature that gift cards with Kudoboard have is that they allow the recipient to choose what gift card they want. A gift card will be funded by the creator or the contributors, and then the recipient can redeem the gift card in whatever form they want. There are options from restaurants tor services to Amazon and Visa. This relieves the pressure of choosing where to grab a gift card for and ensures that the recipient will actually use the gift card. 

International teams need not worry about whether gift cards can be used from country to country. Kudoboard gift cards can be redeemed in more than 150 different currencies. 

If your coworker or loved one is more into service and charity, Kudoboard has an option for that as well. Recipients can choose to redeem their gift card money as a charitable donation. There are many global and national options to choose from, so the recipient should have no problem finding a cause near and dear to their hearts.  

Get Sending! 

Go ahead and try attaching a digital gift card to your eCard to celebrate the special people in your life today. Kudoboard has made it so simple and convenient, that there isn’t an excuse not to try it! You will be the hero on the recipient’s special day.

All you have to do is create the card, attach a gift card, send invites to post, and then send the card. Add that something special to your next online greeting card and make everyone’s event just a little more memorable.