Coming next release

...

Released 27.06.2023

...

Release 26.05.2023

...

Release 17.05.2023

Issue single "digital" gift card

(RTC-26326)

A single "digital" gift card can be issued in Gift Card Management, and the gift card will then be sent to the receiver.

Send gift cards with personal message

(RTC-26334)

Gift Card API can be used for sending personal messages in e-mail and SMS distributions in issue requests.

Improvement

...

/api/v2/GiftCard/{startingGiftCardNumber}/{giftCardCount}/transaction/issue

/api/v2/GiftCard/transaction/issueMultiple

{
  "startingGiftCardNumber": "string",
  "giftCardsCount": 0,
  "giftCardDetails": {
    "validFromUtc": "2022-08-29T05:33:04.426Z",
    "validToUtc": "2022-08-29T05:33:04.426Z",
    "imageId": "string",
    "typeNumber": 0,
    "typeName": "string",
    "authorizeForMinutes": 0,
    "owner": {
      "phoneNumber": "string",
      "emailAddress": "string",
      "countryCode": "string",
      "pinCode": "string"
    },
    "amount": {
      "amount": 0,
      "currencyCode": "string"
    },
    "options": {
      "autogeneratePinCode": true,
      "authorizeAndCommitAtOnce": true,
      "preloaded": true,
      "forceWhenExpired": true
    },
    "origin": {
      "storeNumber": 0,
      "cashregisterNumber": "string",
      "cashierNumber": "string",
      "userId": "string",
      "receiptId": "string",
      "source": "string"
    },
    "distributionOptions": {
      "delayUntilUtc": "2022-08-29T05:33:04.426Z"
    }
  }
}

...

14 Jul 2022 

Support issuing multiple gift cards

(RTC-7642)

Giftcard service has been extended with three requests:

...

...

23 Jun 2022 

No currency validation when issuing a gift card

(RTC-20709)

New validation for currency code during issuing preoloaded gift card with support for currency code in lower case. 
This also affects saving import files into the database. 

...

...

31 May 2022 

Email templates

(RTC-22947)

Email templates NewGiftCard, RegiveGiftCard and RemindPIN can be registered in MessageDistributionService in GiftcardManagement in general settings. The user needs to press 'Register templates in MDS' in this purpose.
By default one template of each type NewGiftCard, RegiveGiftCard and RemindPIN is created. Those cannot be assigned to any profile.
New templates can be specified for a specific profiles by pressing 'Add new template' button and setting up profile number.

Enable and disable distribution types

(RTC-21021)

It is possible to enable/disable distribution of 3 types (Recharge, Regive and Issue) when working with Gift Card Service. Applies only to service. No changes in distributions in management. By default values of parameters IssueDistributionEnabled, ReGiveDistributionEnabled, RechargeDistributionEnabled are set to false. To activate distribution the value of the parameters has to be changed to true.

New Email Distributor job for distributing emails with templates

(RTC-21020)

EmailTemplateDistributor has been added to the GiftCardServiceIntegration package. It is responsible for distributing emails with usage of templates and new image resolver.
To use this job, email templates needs to be set up and registered in MessageDistributionService, check related story Define base for the template used in MDS.

Start using new image resolver in gift card details view

(RTC-19375)

Giftcard images are resolved in the new flow. Profiles have dedicated images - ordinary (basic) image for profile or proper ones specified for time period only.

...

...

29 Apr 2022 

Klarna Gateway

(RTC-20554)

Added support for the event type discount_delete. This request is responsible for deleting all the data regarding given order_id. The giftcard service is called to cancel all linked redeemed transactions.
For more information see release notes of [Klarna integration]: discount_request.

GiftCardServiceJanitorJob

(RTC-20491)

A database fixing job, running once a day, has been added.

Transactions grid

(RTC-19297)

Grid with all transactions has been added. Separated permission is needed to access it. Grid contains data from all columns from Transactions DB table (except GiftCardId and table primary key)

...

...

16 Mar 2022 

Service has been extended for EG Klarna Gateway API

(RTC-20549)

AuthorizeForMinutes propery has been added to issue/recharge/redeem methods- it allows to time bound a transaction.
Optional Source property has been added to TransactionOrigin model in all related requests.
An Update transaction method has been added - that allows to remove or extend time period from issue/recharge/redeem transactions.
Outdated transactions are cancelled by added cloud LIP job - AuthorizationCanceler.

Staging cleanup job
(RTC-20387)

Added job to cleanup staging tables rows older than configured value.

...

...

18 Feb 2022 

Default filter and columns persistence

Active gift cards are displayed by default in gift card list view. Columns persistence is added as well (application remebers what columns user want to see when opening grid next time).

Default environment currency

(RTC-20647)

Added parameter for default currency. It is used in the import when currency is not given in the file.

...

...

17 Jan 2022 

Balance statistics calculator job

(RTC-18796)

BalanceStatisticsCalculator job calculates values for each store for the previous day and then inserts statistics into [CloudScrip].[DailyBalance] table. Those statistics are displayed in the giftcard balance views.
During the job execution below statistics are calculated:

• Balance(Outstanding balance) - Sum of balances of active and valid gift card;
• ExpiredAmount - Sum of balance amount for active but expired gift cards which expired 'yesterday';
• IssuedAmount - Sum of the amount of commited issue transactions which were issued 'yesterday';
• RedeemedAmount - Sum of the amounts of commited redeem transactions which were redeemed 'yesterday';-
• BalanceCorrections - Count of balance corrections transactions made 'yesterday';
• RegiftedCount - Count of regive operations for current date made 'yesterday'.

Balance statistics view

(RTC-18797)

With this view, a user of Gift Card Management will have an overview of daily sum of gift card balances per store and total.

Detailed balance statistics view

(RTC-18798)

With this view, a user of Gift Card Management will have an overview of the following transactions per store for a selected period:

• Issued amount
• Paid amount
• Expired amount
• Balance corrections count
• Number of regifted gift cards

Gift Card API

(RTC-19706)

Get GiftCard Image method in v2

...

1. image send in request parameter
2. image linked to the gift card
3. active periodic image from giftcard's profile
4. ordinary image from giftcard's profile
5. default image for tenant
6. default hardcoded grey image

...

03 Dec 2021 

Mass import of existing gift cards from other sources

(RTC-16987)

It is possible to perform a mass import of giftcards from other sources. The following is enabled:

• Import of gift cards from csv file.
• Mass import of gift cards is possible from Gift card imports view in management module.
• User can upload a file which will be processed and gift cards  will be added or updated in database.
• If gift card is active or has NotPreloaded type, issue confirmed transaction is created with data given in the file.
• Dedicated user role is needed to reach Gift card imports view.
• Support of preloaded giftcards in import

...

02 Dec 2021 

Improvements

Schedule delivery of digital gift cards

(RTC-16991)

Gift Card Service

...

User is able to schedule delivery of gift cards to any future date when issuing or regiving.

Support preloaded giftcards in issue method

(RTC-17703)

• It is possible to issue a giftcard which has not "issue commited transaction and PreloadedType is Preloaded or PreloadedWithValue.
• If "Preloaded", all values sent in request are saved in DB.
• On "PreloadedWithValue" it is possible to perform issue only when amount in request equals amount in the DB.
• Issuing that giftcard does not change the PreloadedType.

...