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Gift cards and stay vouchers for hotels and accommodation

Wrapped is a gift card platform for hotels, lodges and accommodation providers. It sells stays, dining and spa packages as dated experience vouchers alongside cash gift cards, and keeps one balance across the front desk, the restaurant, the bar and the spa.

In 30 seconds

A property connects Wrapped to the outlets that take payment — the restaurant and bar POS (Lightspeed Restaurant or Square), retail or spa (Lightspeed Retail or Heartland), and the online store or Wrapped storefront. Cash gift cards and dated stay or dining vouchers post to one ledger, redeemable across every outlet. Finance gets one consolidated liability number instead of one per outlet.

A property is many businesses sharing one guest

Accommodation properties run several revenue centres — rooms, restaurant, bar, spa, retail — often on different systems. Guests do not perceive those boundaries. Someone given a gift card for the hotel expects to spend it on dinner, at the bar, or on a treatment, not to be told it only works at one outlet.

Wrapped holds the balance above the outlet systems, so a single card or credit is spendable across every connected point of sale on the property, with the running balance visible everywhere in real time. That is also what lets finance close on one liability figure rather than reconciling several.

Stay and package vouchers, not just dollar amounts

The gift someone actually wants to give is a night away, a dinner-and-stay package, or a spa afternoon — not an open-ended dollar balance. These sell at a much higher average value, and they lock in the revenue upfront.

Wrapped treats these as experience vouchers: a defined package, dated for availability and booking management, QR-coded for redemption, and tracked on the same liability ledger as cash cards. That gives the front desk a clean redemption action and gives finance one consistent treatment for all stored value.

Dated for availability.
Valid-from and valid-until dates keep vouchers inside your seasonal and blackout windows.
Scan at the desk.
QR redemption at check-in avoids typing long codes while a guest waits.
Packages, not just rooms.
Bundle dinner, breakfast, a treatment or a late checkout into a single sellable voucher.
Revenue recognised properly.
Vouchers sit in deferred revenue alongside gift cards until redemption, on one report.

Gifting is a seasonal revenue channel worth running properly

Accommodation gifting is heavily concentrated around Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and anniversaries. That concentration means the storefront experience matters disproportionately — a large share of annual gift revenue passes through it in a handful of weeks.

Wrapped includes a branded gifting storefront on your own domain, with personalised messages, scheduled delivery so a voucher arrives on the right morning, and wallet support. You can run it without needing a separate eCommerce platform, which matters for properties whose booking engine is not a general online store.

Credit for service recovery

Hospitality runs on recovery gestures — a room that was not ready, a noisy night, a delayed service. Comping in cash or writing off a charge removes the revenue permanently.

Issuing branded store credit instead keeps the value in the business and gives the guest a reason to return. Every issuance is audit-logged with the staff member and reason, which matters when duty managers across several shifts have the ability to issue credit.

Getting started

Setup is four steps: brand your gift card assets and storefront, connect your POS and any online store, import existing gift cards so outstanding balances keep working, and optionally order physical cards. Most businesses are live the same day. Pricing starts at $49 per month with a 14-day free trial, published in full on the pricing page.

Hotels and accommodation: frequently asked questions

What is the best gift card platform for a hotel?
The differentiators for accommodation are experience vouchers (selling a stay or a package as a dated, defined product), redemption across every outlet on the property regardless of which POS each uses, and consolidated liability reporting for finance. Wrapped covers all three, with native integrations for Lightspeed Restaurant, Lightspeed Retail, Square and Heartland, plus a hosted gifting storefront for properties without a general eCommerce store.
Can we sell a stay or a package as a gift voucher?
Yes. Experience vouchers let you define the package — a night with breakfast, a dinner-and-stay, a spa afternoon — attach valid-from and valid-until dates so it fits your availability, and redeem it by QR scan at the desk. It is recorded on the same liability ledger as cash gift cards.
Can a guest use one gift card in the restaurant, the bar and the spa?
Yes, provided those outlets run on connected systems. Wrapped keeps one canonical balance and every connected POS reads and writes to it, so a guest can spend part of a card over dinner and the rest on a treatment the next day, with the balance accurate at every till in between.
How does gift card revenue get accounted for?
Gift cards and vouchers are deferred revenue when sold and recognised on redemption, with unredeemed value eventually treated as breakage under ASC 606 or IFRS 15 depending on your reporting framework. Wrapped reports outstanding liability broken down by channel and aged by last activity. The gift card accounting and liability guide covers the treatment in detail.
Do we need an eCommerce platform to sell gift vouchers online?
No. Wrapped includes a hosted, fully branded gifting storefront on your own domain, which is often the right fit for accommodation properties whose only other online system is a booking engine. If you do run an online store — Shopify, WooCommerce or BigCommerce — Wrapped integrates with it instead or as well.

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