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GiftYa

A personalized gift to replace the gift card. Unique and meaningful… a GiftYa is sent within seconds, can’t be lost and doesn’t lose value!

Jason Wolfe, our founder, created the Internet’s first online gift card website in 1999, eventually renaming it to GiftCards.com in 2002. After selling GiftCards.com in 2016, he set out to improve the gift card itself, which had not changed in 25 years and focus on speed, no waste, security, meaningfulness, & flexibility.

NO WASTE
Standard gift cards are a single-use product that generates over 17,000 tons of plastic waste each year. GiftYa is the preferred environmentally friendly digital gift that still offers ultimate personalization and flexibility, no plastics.

Our digital gifts cut down on unnecessary packaging and reduces the number of plastic gift cards that end up in landfills. You no longer must search through the shelves at the store, thousands of merchants across the US are now at your fingertips no matter where you are located.

MEANINGFULNESS
Gift cards have earned a reputation of being impersonal. Did you know that 59% of the US population would opt for a gift card as their preference when it comes to receiving gifts?

By combining photo and video personalization along with the ability to give a gift to over 50,000 retailers (and 350,000 locations) nationwide, the GiftYa team has created the most meaningful and personalized digital gift on the market.

SECURITY
Have you ever had a gift card lost or stolen? Or are scammers using your stolen credit/debit card to buy gift cards? GiftYa is the next-generation gift card that uses the same card-linking technology as Venmo or Zelle and others so that your gifts are always available, always traceable, and always used. They cannot be used by criminals. We partnered with Visa, Mastercard and American Express to make sure your gifts can never be lost, stolen, expired, or forgotten and that we can start to turn these gift card statistics around:

Since 2018, Americans have lost close to $245M due to gift card scams. 51% of US adults forget to redeem their gift cards. 29% of US adults let their gift cards expire.

FLEXIBILITY
GiftYa offers maximum flexibility by providing users with the opportunity to exchange a gift for a different merchant, or exchange your gift for a Visa gift card, or exchange it for cash by Zelle. Our goal is to make sure that all gifts are 100% perfect for every recipient. This feature is great in cases where merchants are no longer in business, the merchant is not something the recipient has access to or is interested in. We also offer the ability to pay it forward and send the gift to be received by a new recipient.