Cash today. A new face tomorrow.
Sell digital gift cards right at your counter. You bank the money up front, and the person who redeems it is often someone who has never walked in before. Québec's rules on expiry and fees are built in, not bolted on.
Included on the Growth and Pro plans.
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Never expires
Québec's rules aren't a setting. They're the default.
The Consumer Protection Act is blunt about it: a gift card sold in Québec can't expire and can't be shaved down by fees. So Perkaria ships with no expiry date to set and no dormancy fee to configure. The card holds its full value until someone spends it — next Tuesday, or four years from now.
- No expiry date — there's no field to set and none to forget
- No dormancy, activation or maintenance fees
- The balance stays whole until it's redeemed
- Same card, same rules, in French or English
Sold at the counter
You get paid today for a visit that happens later.
Your team issues a digital gift card from the counter tablet: pick an amount, take payment on the register you already use, hand it over. December is the month this pays for itself — gift-card money arrives during your busiest weeks and gets spent in January, when the room is quiet.
- Issued from the PIN-gated counter app, in two taps
- Preset amounts set for your program, so a total can't be fat-fingered
- Reload an existing card at the counter — the amount adds to what's left
- No POS integration required: your register takes the money, Perkaria tracks the card
Public balance page
“How much is left on this?” — answered without your staff.
Every card comes with a public balance page. The holder types the code and sees the balance: no account, no password, nobody waiting in line while someone checks at the register. It's bilingual, rate-limited against code-guessing, and it's running today at Rockaberry Jean-Talon in Montréal.
- Public page, no account needed, rate-limited
- French and English, on any phone browser
- Members see the balance on their wallet card too
- One less interruption during the rush
Liability you can see
You always know exactly what you owe.
Unspent balances are money you've already banked and still owe in product — the number your accountant asks for at year-end. The owner dashboard keeps it current: total outstanding, what was sold, what came back. It lands in your weekly digest email too, next to the rest of your numbers.
- Total outstanding balance, always current
- Every issue, reload and redemption logged against the card
- Nightly reconciliation against your POS sales export keeps it honest
- Included in the weekly owner digest
Straight answers
The three questions owners ask
Do the cards ever expire?
No — and there's no way to make them. Québec's Consumer Protection Act prohibits expiry dates and dormancy fees on gift cards, so the product has no expiry field and no fee schedule to turn on. A $50 card is worth $50 until someone spends it.
Can a customer top up a card they already have?
Yes. Staff reload an existing card at the counter and the amount adds to whatever is left — nothing resets, nothing expires. Your program sets the amounts on offer and the maximum balance a single card can hold.
Can a card be used at more than one location?
On the Pro plan, yes: balances are shared across your locations, up to three — more on request. Gift cards are included on Growth and Pro, and Growth covers a single location.
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Where gift cards fit in
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