[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":104},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-en-darkove-poukazy-vanoce":3},{"doc":4,"newer":86,"locales":101},{"id":5,"title":6,"body":7,"category":84,"date":85,"dateUpdated":86,"description":77,"excerpt":87,"extension":88,"image":89,"imageAlt":86,"imageHeight":90,"imageWidth":91,"meta":92,"navigation":93,"path":94,"readTime":95,"seo":96,"seoDescription":97,"seoTitle":98,"stem":99,"supersededBy":86,"__hash__":100},"blog\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fdarkove-poukazy-vanoce.md","Gift vouchers: how to make the Christmas season pay twice",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":76},"minimark",[10,15,19,22,25,28,32,35,38,41,44,48,51,54,57,60,64,67,70,73],[11,12,14],"h2",{"id":13},"a-voucher-isnt-a-discount-its-cash-up-front","A voucher isn't a discount — it's cash up front",[16,17,18],"p",{},"A discount campaign cuts your margin on every single dish you sell. A gift voucher does the exact opposite: the customer pays the full amount today and walks out without costing you anything. You serve the food weeks or months later — typically in January and February, when hospitality cash flow is at its thinnest.",[16,20,21],{},"That means two things for your business. First, cash arrives when you need it least and gets spent when you need it most. Second, you gain a new guest: a voucher is usually bought by someone other than the person who redeems it. The holder has often never visited you before, and they arrive knowing the bill is already covered — which tends to be a good start for ordering something extra.",[16,23,24],{},"And there's a practical detail: a voucher is the one last-minute gift you can issue over the counter in half a minute. The afternoon of 23 December can be surprisingly good business.",[16,26,27],{},"In the Czech Republic, restaurant gift vouchers are a well-established Christmas gift — but the same logic works in any market with a gift-giving season.",[11,29,31],{"id":30},"set-values-validity-and-rules-before-the-rush-starts","Set values, validity and rules before the rush starts",[16,33,34],{},"Offer a handful of fixed denominations instead of an arbitrary amount — say 500, 1,000 and 2,000. A buyer who has no idea what dinner costs at your place decides faster when there's a shortlist. Do offer the higher tiers too: someone buying a gift for two will reach for the larger amount on their own.",[16,36,37],{},"Be generous with validity. You set the default validity of new vouchers under Settings → Finance → General — 1 to 36 months, or no limit; the default 12 months works well for Christmas sales — the guest has the whole next year to redeem it, and vouchers don't linger in your records forever. Short validity is a false economy: an annoyed guest holding an expired voucher will cost you more than the value you “saved”.",[16,39,40],{},"Decide in advance what happens when amounts don't match. Kasyro treats a voucher as a payment method — if the bill is higher, the guest tops it up by card or cash. If it's lower, the voucher is used up in full and the excess is forfeited; the register warns about this before redeeming it. Tell your staff and guests this up front, so it isn't figured out for the first time in a packed room.",[16,42,43],{},"Mind the types, too: if you want prepaid credit rather than a gift — for corporate customers, for example — use a Deposit voucher. A discount coupon is something else entirely; it isn't sold, only created, and it belongs in marketing campaigns rather than under the tree.",[11,45,47],{"id":46},"selling-and-redeeming-at-the-counter","Selling and redeeming at the counter",[16,49,50],{},"Selling a voucher in Kasyro is an ordinary sale. Under More → Vouchers & Coupons you tap New, pick Gift Voucher, enter the value on the numpad and press Sell. The payment dialog opens just like it would for any other bill — the guest pays by card or cash, and that activates the voucher. Vouchers can only be sold while a shift is open. The payment for the voucher goes properly through the register rather than around it — but it only counts as revenue once the guest redeems the voucher.",[16,52,53],{},"The code is generated automatically, so there's no numbering to manage and no duplicates to watch for. An active voucher can be printed straight to a thermal printer — if you want a gift-worthy presentation, have envelopes or cards printed in advance and slip the printout inside.",[16,55,56],{},"Redeeming is just as short: in the Payment window staff tap the Vouchers tile, enter the code, and the system checks by itself that the voucher exists, hasn't expired and hasn't been used up. No leafing through a notebook, no phone calls to the owner.",[16,58,59],{},"The voucher note field is a good place for context — who it's for, who it's from, whether it was a corporate order. In December, when you sell dozens of them, that pays off.",[11,61,63],{"id":62},"do-the-maths-once-the-season-is-over","Do the maths once the season is over",[16,65,66],{},"You filter the voucher list by state: Active, Redeemed, Expired, Cancelled. After the season that is the entire report you need — how many you sold and for how much, how many came back and when, and how many lapsed.",[16,68,69],{},"More interesting than redemption itself is the spend around it. In Reports, look at the bills where a voucher was used and compare them with your usual average. If they run higher, you have an argument for offering vouchers outside Christmas too — for birthdays, weddings and corporate customers.",[16,71,72],{},"Don't overlook the accounting side: an unredeemed voucher is a liability, not revenue. Agree with your accountant on how to report them before you've sold a hundred. The list filtered to Active is exactly the document they'll ask for.",[16,74,75],{},"And one last thing people forget: the vouchers section has to be switched on. Under Settings → System → Modules enable Sales Vouchers, and check that the staff who will be selling them have the matching permissions. Do it now, in September — not on 20 December.",{"title":77,"searchDepth":78,"depth":78,"links":79},"",2,[80,81,82,83],{"id":13,"depth":78,"text":14},{"id":30,"depth":78,"text":31},{"id":46,"depth":78,"text":47},{"id":62,"depth":78,"text":63},"tips","2026-09-04",null,"A voucher sold in December is cash today for a meal you serve in February. How to set vouchers up, sell them at the counter and review the results after the season — with no paper slips in a drawer.","md","\u002Fimages\u002Fhappy-customer.jpg",800,1200,{},true,"\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fdarkove-poukazy-vanoce","6 min",{"title":6,"description":77},"How restaurants and shops sell gift vouchers before Christmas: setting values and validity, selling and redeeming at the counter, reviewing the results.","Restaurant Gift Vouchers: Getting Ready for Christmas","en\u002Fblog\u002Fdarkove-poukazy-vanoce","O12EJHnaP-a_ST2ctajqraegfaIEZJo5LBluSFqB95U",[102,103],"cs","en",1794003304416]