The 10 Best Gift Voucher Tools for Restaurants and Salons Compared for 2026

Gift vouchers are the one product a restaurant or salon sells without cooking or cutting anything, and most of them sell in the three weeks before Christmas. That timing is why the pricing model matters more than the feature list: a platform that takes 4% or 6% of every voucher charges you the most in exactly the month you earn the most, while a flat subscription costs the same in December as in March.

This guide compares ten tools a restaurant or salon can use to sell vouchers online and redeem them at the till or reception. It looks at what each one charges per voucher, how staff redeem, whether a €100 voucher can pay a €64 bill with the rest kept, and where the break even between commission and subscription sits. It uses what each vendor publishes on its own website, read on 30 October 2026. Rewardly, which publishes this guide, is one of the ten.

Quick answer: which voucher tool fits which business

• A restaurant or salon that already runs a loyalty program and sells vouchers all year: Rewardly, where vouchers come with the Professional plan at no commission beyond the Stripe fee.
• A place that sells a few vouchers a month and wants no fixed cost: Gift Up! (3.49% per voucher) or SumUp Gift Cards (2.5%).
• A business already on Square: Square Gift Cards, which charge only the card processing fee.
• A salon that books through Booksy: its online gift cards are already in the £40 plan.
• A UK restaurant that wants physical cards, postal vouchers and a redemption app in one: VoucherCart or Toggle.
• A venue that wants to sell in several countries and currencies: Enjovia or Gift Up!.

Which one fits best

Which model wins is arithmetic. On a commission platform the platform fee grows with sales; on a subscription it does not. Against Rewardly's Professional plan at €79.90 a month, the commission models cost the same at roughly €2,290 of monthly voucher sales for Gift Up! (3.49%), €1,776 for Enjovia (4.5%), €1,229 for Toggle (6.5%) and €3,196 for SumUp (2.5%). Below those figures the commission is cheaper; above them the subscription is. A restaurant or salon already on Rewardly's Advanced plan pays only the €30 step up to Professional, which the commission models pass at about €860 (Gift Up!) and €667 (Enjovia) of monthly sales. Card processing is extra everywhere and roughly the same everywhere, so it is left out of these numbers.

That makes Rewardly the closest fit for a restaurant or salon in Europe that wants a full loyalty program and vouchers from one system and sells vouchers every week: no commission, partial redemption, a wallet pass and a printable voucher, redemption with the scanner or a connected till, and a sold, redeemed and outstanding view for the accountant. Two honest exceptions: a venue that sells a handful of vouchers a year, where Gift Up!, SumUp or a Square till cost almost nothing, and a small business that wants only a simple stamp card plus a gift card, where Passtastic at €19 plus 0.99% stays cheaper than Rewardly's Professional plan until roughly €6,150 of monthly voucher sales.

How we compared them

We looked at 23 products and kept the ten a restaurant or salon can sign up for with a published price or fee. We dropped the enterprise promotion engines (Voucherify at €600 a month and up, Blackhawk), the business to business reward platforms that sell other brands' cards (Giftbit, Huuray), the platforms that publish no rate (GiftPro, Soda, Lightspeed's add on, Phorest's quote only plans), the US focused and Australian tools (Yiftee, VaocherApp, priced in US and Australian dollars), Toast (its pages block our checks), Fresha and Treatwell (no readable voucher pricing), and Kartička, whose online voucher sale is still marked "coming soon".

Each product was checked for the same things: subscription, commission or fee per voucher, what the buyer and the business pay in processing, digital or physical format, how a customer buys, how staff redeem, partial redemption, expiry rules, branding, multi location pricing and the main limitation. Prices come from the UK or EU page of each vendor and we say which. We did not invent ratings or collect customer reviews. The order is not a ranking.

If you want to see what a voucher shop looks like before reading on, you can set one up with Rewardly free for 14 days.

Vouchers with a loyalty or booking tool

Rewardly

Rewardly, the publisher of this guide, sells gift vouchers and passes from a branded shop as part of its loyalty platform.

• Best for: a restaurant or salon in Europe that wants a loyalty card and vouchers from one system and sells more than a few hundred euros of vouchers a month.
• Pricing: vouchers are on the Professional plan, €79.90 per location a month excluding VAT (Basic is €29.90 and Advanced €49.90; the trial is 14 days with a card on file and nothing charged). Rewardly takes no commission on voucher sales; Stripe charges its standard card fee on each payment, paid out to your own Stripe account.
• Strengths: a shop with its own link or embedded in your site, vouchers delivered by email, as an Apple Wallet or Google Wallet pass or as a printable PDF, gift sending with a message, redemption by scanning the QR code with the Rewardly scanner or a connected till (Papaya POS, Storyous, Dotykačka, Portos) and entering the amount, partial redemption with the rest staying on the voucher, a sold, redeemed and outstanding dashboard and a CSV export of payouts. A free gift voucher maker covers the printed design if you only need that.
• Limitations: vouchers need the Professional plan, so a business that wants only vouchers pays for loyalty too. One gift card design is on sale at a time (passes with a set number of uses can sit next to it), the shop runs in euros and in English, Slovak and Czech, there are no physical plastic cards and no expiry setting is shown, and redemption at the till works on the four Central European systems, not on Square, SumUp or Zettle.
• Website: rewardly.me

Booksy

Booksy includes online gift cards in its salon booking plan.

• Best for: a salon or barbershop that already books through Booksy.
• Pricing (UK page): £40 a month plus £5 per extra user, plus VAT, with gift cards included and 1.29% plus 20p plus VAT on mobile payments.
• Strengths: gift cards sold from the booking profile with nothing else to set up.
• Limitations: the cards live inside Booksy, partial redemption and expiry are not shown, and a restaurant cannot use it.
• Website: booksy.com

Passtastic

Passtastic sells gift cards as one of the program types in its €19 wallet loyalty plan.

• Best for: a small café or salon that wants a wallet loyalty card and a gift card for the lowest fixed cost.
• Pricing (EU page): €19 a month excluding VAT (€171 a year), 0.99% plus Stripe's fee on online sales in Europe, extra locations €15, 14 day trial with no card.
• Strengths: the cheapest fixed price in the set with a near zero commission, Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, redemption with its scanner app.
• Limitations: one program is included, so a gift card next to a stamp card costs €5 a month more, and partial redemption and expiry are not shown.
• Website: passtastic.io

Voucher platforms

Gift Up!

Gift Up! is a commission only voucher platform with no monthly fee.

• Best for: a restaurant or salon that sells vouchers occasionally and wants nothing fixed to pay.
• Pricing (US dollar page): no monthly or setup fee. 3.49% per voucher sold with a $0.50 minimum, 1.99% on complimentary vouchers, plus your own payment processor's fee, which the page puts at 1.4% to 2.9%. You can add an optional service fee that the buyer pays.
• Strengths: vouchers by email and in the phone wallet, a website widget, a free redemption app where staff enter the code, partial redemption, an expiry you set from one month to never (outside the USA), and support for multiple locations.
• Limitations: the commission scales with your December, and the site does not show the company's seat.
• Website: giftup.com

Enjovia

Enjovia is a Welsh voucher platform that sells in 37 countries, including the Eurozone and Central Europe.

• Best for: a venue with sites in several countries, or one that wants a white label voucher shop without a subscription.
• Pricing (UK page): no subscription and no setup fee, a minimum monthly charge of £10, 4.5% commission in the UK and the Eurozone (also Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Romania), 3.1% in the US, Canada and Switzerland, 0% on complimentary vouchers, with processing on top; the page targets a total at or below 6%.
• Strengths: digital and physical vouchers, redemption by code or scan, at a POS terminal or via API, partial redemption with the balance kept for later, expiry dates you can extend or shorten per voucher, multi store at no extra charge, white label.
• Limitations: the highest commission in the set after Toggle.
• Website: enjovia.com

VoucherCart

VoucherCart combines a subscription with a commission and adds postal vouchers.

• Best for: a UK restaurant group that wants eVouchers, printed vouchers, a redemption app and POS links from one vendor.
• Pricing (UK page): Business £25 a month (one sales page, one redemption location) or Pro £75 (ten locations), annual billing £20.83 and £62.50, plus a commission from 4% on monthly sales and your own payment gateway's fee. Ten complimentary and ten charity vouchers a month are free.
• Strengths: eVouchers by email and postal vouchers, a mobile redemption app, POS and property management integrations, full sales and statistics reporting, dedicated voucher designs.
• Limitations: you pay both a subscription and a percentage. Partial redemption works through multi use vouchers that are drawn down until the balance reaches zero; expiry rules are not shown.
• Website: vouchercart.com

Toggle

Toggle, Airship's sister company in Sheffield, is built for UK hospitality and sells physical cards alongside the online shop.

• Best for: a UK restaurant that wants physical gift cards, wallet passes and in venue redemption under one roof.
• Pricing (UK page): 6.5% commission on Essentials; Plus and Expert add a flat fee the page shows only as a placeholder, plus onboarding fees and a minimum charge.
• Strengths: online shop, physical cards, Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, Apple Pay and Google Pay, in venue redemption, multi brand from Plus.
• Limitations: the highest commission here, and the flat fees are not public.
• Website: usetoggle.com

Gift cards inside the till

Square Gift Cards

Square sells eGift cards and physical cards to businesses that already take payments with Square.

• Best for: a restaurant or salon on Square that wants the cheapest possible gift card.
• Pricing (UK page): no monthly fee and nothing to set up for digital cards; eGift sales cost 1.4% plus 25p for UK cards and 2.5% plus 25p for non UK cards, in person 1.75%, no redemption fee, physical cards from £0.52 each.
• Strengths: an eGift ordering page, QR and barcode scanning on Square hardware, cards that do not expire, your own designs, redemption at any of your stores.
• Limitations: only for Square merchants, and partial redemption is not described on the page.
• Website: squareup.com

SumUp Gift Cards

SumUp adds gift cards to its card readers for a percentage of the card value.

• Best for: a small café or salon on SumUp that wants a hosted gift card page in minutes.
• Pricing (UK page): no monthly cost, 2.5% of the gift card value plus SumUp's usual transaction charges.
• Strengths: email gift cards, printed vouchers, codes on your own cards, a hosted page or sale at the till, your name and logo.
• Limitations: the dashboard shows remaining credit but partial redemption is not spelled out, expiry is not shown, and 2.5% on every voucher adds up for a busy December.
• Website: sumup.com

Zettle Gift Cards

Zettle, PayPal's card reader, includes gift cards at no extra fee, but they cannot be sold online.

• Best for: a venue on Zettle that sells vouchers over the counter only.
• Pricing (UK page): no contracts or recurring fees, 1.75% card processing, no separate gift card fee.
• Strengths: scannable, handwritten or emailed cards, partial redemption split with another payment method, an adjustable expiry up to three years.
• Limitations: no web shop (a remote sale works only through a payment link), so December web traffic does not turn into vouchers by itself, card values are capped between £1 and £1,000, and plastic cards come from a partner at a price the page does not show.
• Website: zettle.com

How to choose gift voucher software for a restaurant or salon

Do the December arithmetic first

Write down last year's voucher sales by month and multiply the December figure by the commission. A 4.5% commission on €4,000 of December sales is €180 in one month; a flat €79.90 is €79.90. Below roughly €1,200 to €3,200 a month, depending on the rate, commission is cheaper; above it, a subscription is. Our guide on selling digital vouchers that earn covers the margin side.

Check how the voucher is redeemed at the counter

A voucher that staff type as a 16 digit code at 20:00 on a Saturday will be entered wrong. Look for a scan (QR or barcode) on the till or in a scanner app, and ask what happens when the voucher is worth more than the bill. Partial redemption is stated on only some vendor pages (Rewardly, Gift Up!, Enjovia, Zettle, and VoucherCart through multi use vouchers); where it is not, ask.

Decide whether you need plastic

Printed and plastic cards still sell at the counter and in hotel shops. Square, Toggle, VoucherCart, Enjovia and Zettle offer physical cards; the wallet and PDF tools (Rewardly, Passtastic, Gift Up!) print a voucher with a QR code instead.

Know the expiry rule you will apply

Only a few vendors publish one: Gift Up! lets you set one month to never, Enjovia lets you extend or shorten per voucher, Zettle allows up to three years, Square cards never expire. National law sets minimum validity in several countries, so check the rule where you trade before you print "valid 12 months" on anything.

Keep the liability visible

Every sold, unredeemed voucher is money you owe. Pick a tool that shows sold, redeemed and outstanding and exports it, because your accountant will ask in January. Rewardly states the sold, redeemed and outstanding view on its page; VoucherCart and Soda describe sales and redemption reports; most others say nothing.

Count the second location

Groups pay differently: per location (Rewardly, Passtastic at €15, Yiftee), a plan jump (VoucherCart £25 to £75 for ten sites), or nothing extra (Enjovia; GiftPro says unlimited venues but publishes no price). Decide before you pick, because moving voucher balances between systems later is painful.

Start six weeks before the peak

Whatever you choose, the shop, the designs and the staff briefing need to be ready by mid November. Our six week plan for Christmas gift vouchers and the guide to setting up digital gift cards walk through it. For the loyalty side, see Rewardly's pages for restaurants and salons.

Frequently asked questions

What is the cheapest way to sell gift vouchers online?

If you already take payments with Square, its eGift cards cost only the processing fee. Otherwise a commission platform (Gift Up! at 3.49%, SumUp at 2.5%) is cheapest for small volumes, and a flat subscription (Rewardly, Passtastic) becomes cheaper once you sell more than roughly €1,200 to €3,200 a month, depending on the rate you compare against.

Do voucher platforms charge commission?

Most do: Gift Up! 3.49%, Enjovia 4.5%, VoucherCart 4% on top of a subscription, Toggle 6.5%, SumUp 2.5%. Rewardly, Passtastic (0.99%), Square and Zettle charge no platform commission, only card processing or a subscription.

Can a customer use part of a voucher?

Only if the tool supports partial redemption, and not all say so on their pages: Rewardly and Enjovia keep the remainder on the voucher, Gift Up! and Zettle allow a split, VoucherCart does it through multi use vouchers. Ask any other vendor before you buy.

How long must a gift voucher be valid?

That depends on the country you trade in, and most vendor pages do not say. Where you can set it, Gift Up! allows one month to never, Enjovia lets you extend or shorten per voucher and Zettle allows up to three years; Square cards never expire. Check your national rule and set the longer of the two.

Does Rewardly take a commission on vouchers?

No. Rewardly takes no commission on voucher sales; Stripe charges its standard card fee on each payment and pays out to your own Stripe account. Vouchers are part of the Professional plan at €79.90 per location a month.

Can I sell vouchers without a loyalty program?

With Gift Up!, Enjovia, VoucherCart, Toggle, Square, SumUp and Zettle, yes. Rewardly and Passtastic bundle vouchers with a loyalty card, which is the better deal if you want both and the wrong one if you only want vouchers.

Conclusion

Pick the fee model by your December, not by the feature list: commission for small volumes or a Square till, a flat subscription once vouchers sell every week. Then check redemption at the counter, partial use, the expiry rule and the outstanding balance report. If you want a loyalty card and commission free vouchers from one system you can set up in about 2 minutes, try Rewardly for 14 days and judge it against the others on this list.

Disclosure: Rewardly publishes this guide and is one of the ten products in it. Every product is judged on the same criteria, and where another one fits a restaurant or salon better, we say so. Prices and fees were checked on 30 October 2026 on each vendor's own pages. They change, so confirm before you buy.

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