What part of the gift card can be customized?

In customizing a gift card, these are the typical thing’s that are personalized:

Gift Card Design
This is perhaps the essence of customizing a gift card. Most of the gift card issuers provide a variety of ready-made gift card designs. Each design usually fits an occasion, a certain product or service, a special person, or generic gift-for-her/him designs.

While many gift card providers do offer a finite set of gift card designs, there are few companies that allow buyers to design the gift cards on their own. Unlike others that only allows you to select one design, these issuers allow lets you click and drag multiple design options, thus creating a unique gift card.

Personal Message
A personal message printed on the gift card is also a feature that most buyers look for from custom gift cards. These messages needs to be concise so that it fits the limited space allotted for it. Such messages include but are not limited to greetings, congratulatory, and thank you.

Recipient’s Name
This is allowed by most of the gift card issuers that offer custom gift cards. The name of the recipient usually comes before the personal message printed on the gift card.

Photo
Only a few providers allow personalized photo gift cards. The most popular perhaps are those that are affiliated with Cardways.

What are the Available Custom Gift Cards?

MasterCard Gift Card
MasterCard Gift Cards are offered by its partners, and most of them provide custom gift cards. Depending on who issues the gift card, the MasterCard Gift Card can be personalized with your own personal message, photos and name of the recipient.

Cardways
Cardways allows personalization of gift cards with photo, design, name and personal message. It provides services to different businesses and one of the gift cards that they offer is the Lowe’s Gift Card. When preparing the custom gift card, you given a choice to choose from ready made designs, or to ‘design your own’ gift card. You are also given the option to add a personalized greeting card.

Apple, iPhone and iTunes Gift Cards
These three gift cards offered by Apple are customizable and can be personalized.

Wal-Mart Gift Cards
This was announced by Wal-Mart in their site, stating a “perfect holiday gift for anyone who likes the ease of a gift card and also wants to give a unique present – a gift card that can be personalized with your photo, favorite phrase, or business card.”

Best Buy Gift Cards
Best Buy offers numerous designs to choose from, giving gift card buyers wide selection and better customization.

Bank of America Visa Gift Cards
This is a customizable or personalized gift card. There are more than twenty designs to choose from, and buyers are allowed to personalize it with the company’s logo. Buyers are also given the option to design their own cards.

Other businesses that offer custom gift cards are:

• Four Seasons Hotel Gift Cards
• Jos A Banks Gift Cards
• Old Navy Gift Cards
• Intrust Bank Gift Cards
• Victoria’s Secret Gift Cards
• Lands’ End Gift Cards
• Kroger Gift Cards
• JCPenney Gift Cards
• Macy’s e-Gift Cards
• Target Gift Cards
• Cooking.com Gift Cards
• Chadwick’s Gift Cards
• Chase Gift Cards
• Cabela’s Gift Cards
• Books-A-Million Gift Cards
• Bath and Body Works Gift Cards
• Barnes & Noble Gift Cards
• Associated Bank Gift Cards
• Applebee’s Gift Cards