This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a personalized gift certificate voucher for free. Learn how to choose a template, customize the design, add details, and print or share the voucher digitally.
As a business owner, you want to show your customers how much you appreciate their patronage. One way to do this is by offering gift certificate vouchers that they can use to purchase your products or services.
However, the cost of creating and printing gift certificates can add up quickly. The good news is that you don't have to spend a lot of money to offer gift certificates to your customers. In this article, we'll walk you through the process of creating free gift certificate vouchers that you can customize with your branding and logo. By providing your customers with a personalized gift certificate voucher, you'll not only show your appreciation, but also increase customer loyalty and drive sales.
** Stencil provides 50 credits when you signed up. You can generate your certificate for free using these free credits.
To start creating your gift certificate voucher, the first step is to design a template that aligns with your brand and the purpose of the voucher. While there are numerous free gift certificate voucher templates accessible online that you can draw inspiration from, it's crucial to customize the design to reflect your brand's personality and the intended occasion.
A voucher template usually is around 1152px x 768px.
To ensure a successful voucher redemption, it's important to make the voucher's amount or exchange value and its validity very clear. Additionally, you may want to consider including any terms and conditions that apply to the voucher, such as restrictions on certain products or services.
For this tutorial, we have design a simple voucher that looks like this.
To enhance the personal touch of the gift certificate voucher, you may also consider adding your customer's name to the design. This not only adds a special touch but also helps to build a good reputation with your customers.
Believe it or not, the previous step was in fact the hard one. There are various ways to generate a PDF in Stencil without using code.
For this tutorial, we are going to use the Test Console to generate the PDF. As you use Stencil more and more, you'll find yourself using this Console a lot. It's the easiest way to generate image or PDF right from Stencil.
Click on Console button when viewing your templates inside your project. You'll be redirected to the Console page.
By default, Console generates images. You can select PDF from the dropdown option next to the Generate button.
Make some changes based on your requirement. Once you're ready, click on Generate to start generating your PDF.
It will take a couple of seconds to generate a PDF. This process is done asynchronously. You can wait until it's done or leave the page.
Once it is done, you should see the download link. If you leave the page, you can always go to the Requests page to find your generated PDFs.
The generated PDF is ready to be downloaded.
If you're printing the voucher, make sure that the paper quality is good and that the voucher looks professional. Make sure that the canvas size is the proper size.
If you're sharing the voucher digitally, you can save it as a PDF file and email it to the recipient, or share it on social media.
Generating one or two certificates mostly can be done by hand, however if you're running a business or a software service, you may want to let automation handles this process.
Stencil works really great with Zapier, Make and any other automation tools that requires very little technical expertise.
Go to either Zapier or Make, and find Stencil app. For other automation tools, you can use our webhook and API to integrate with those tools. Generally, they work very similar to each other.
Stencil has built-in Airtable integration that is really easy to set up.
From the hamburger menu, click on Airtable integration.
If you haven't add Airtable token, please do so and follow the instructions. They are very easy to work with.
We have written a guide on how to use Airtable with Stencil. You can read them here, How To Use Airtable To Automate Image Generation For Building Visual Marketing Assets
You can also create a form using our built-in form builder. Then, this form can be embedded or shared with your teams or clients, to let them create the certificate by themselves.