GIFT CARDS
Sell the trip as a gift — and own the sale.
A guided trip is the gift a spouse, a dad, or a buddy actually wants. Timber & Tackle lets you sell branded gift certificates straight from your site — the money comes to your account, and it redeems against a booking.
How do guides sell gift cards? In practice, one of three ways: a generic gift card through their card processor (works, but it lives outside the booking and carries none of your brand), an IOU arranged over the phone and tracked by memory, or certificates sold natively from their own booking site that redeem against a trip. Gift cards are found money for a guide — a sale today for a trip that gets booked later, often by someone new to you. But most guides can't sell them without a clunky workaround, and the marketplaces that can take their cut of a gift the buyer meant entirely for you.
Timber & Tackle builds gift cards into your own site. A buyer purchases a branded gift certificate, the payment goes to your Stripe account, and they get a printable certificate with a code. The recipient redeems it against a booking, and the amount comes off the trip. Your gift, your money, your new client.
Sell trips before they're booked
A gift certificate is revenue today for a trip taken later — and often brings you a brand-new client the recipient becomes.
Give a gift that fits your brand
A branded, printable certificate with your name and your look — not a generic code that looks like an afterthought.
Keep the whole sale
The money goes to your own account with no commission taken out. A gift meant for you arrives whole.
Redeem it cleanly at booking
The recipient books a trip and the certificate comes off the total automatically — no manual tracking, no awkward math.
How it works
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Turn on gift cards
Enable gift certificates on your site and set the look — your brand on the certificate.
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A buyer purchases one
They buy a gift certificate right on your site; the payment lands in your own Stripe account.
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They get a certificate
A branded, printable gift certificate with a code goes out — ready to hand over or email.
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The recipient redeems it
They book a trip, enter the code, and the amount comes off the total. A new client, a booked trip, a sale you kept whole.
Why it matters
Gift cards are one of the few ways to sell a trip before you guide it — cash flow in the off-season and a pipeline of new clients the recipients become. For a premium guide, they're a natural fit: a trip is exactly the gift a serious outdoorsman wants.
Selling them from your own site, with the money to your account, keeps a gift meant for you from becoming a cut for a middleman. It's your brand on the certificate and your relationship with the new client.
Straight answers.
Where does the gift-card money go?
To your own connected Stripe account, whole — no commission taken out. The only cost is the standard card fee.
What does the buyer get?
A branded, printable gift certificate with your name and a redemption code — ready to print or email to the recipient.
How does redemption work?
The recipient books a trip on your site and enters the code; the gift-card amount comes off the total automatically.
Is this really native, not a workaround?
Yes — gift cards are built into your site and your booking, not a third-party add-on that takes a cut.
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