Question about gift card activity and buyer_payment_instrument_ids

Questions
1

I am thinking that I will have to write a script to use the API to migrate some digital gift cards we have in our wordpress/woocommerce because they have alphanumeric numbers and the customer support import option will only import numeric gift cards.

Since these have already been purchased in our Woocommerce/wordpress previously, I don’t want to create an order for them…

So my current thinking is to create gift card, then activate using the
buyer_payment_instrument_ids: ‘cash’

My question since I’d prefer not test this in production - will this show up in reporting as sales income? or does it leave it out of there since it’s considered an external sale?

Any other gotchas I should be on the lookout for?

2

It wouldn’t show up in any of the sales reports since it’s not a payment_id that was used to make the purchase. :slightly_smiling_face:

3

If I am running a loop to create and then activate about 800 gift cards (so 1600 api calls) is there a rate limiting I would run into in sandbox and production?

4

Yes, all of our endpoints have rate limits but we don’t document the limits. We encourage you to handle the limit gracefully by building a retry mechanism. This mechanism should have an exponential backoff schedule to reduce requests when volume is necessary. Also some randomness wouldn’t hurt to avoid a thundering herd effect. :slightly_smiling_face: