How does Return Magic generate gift cards in Shopify?

My Shopify plan supports gift cards

At the "refund" step of the process, Return Magic is able to generate a gift card automatically and send it to your client's e-mail address in one simple click.

However, if your Shopify account did not create the gift card automatically, then you will have to follow the simple instructions provided inside of Return Magic to generate your own.
Because of a limitation of the Shopify API, any gift card that Return Magic generates automatically will not have a customer account associated to it. We can just leave a note, like this:

Note you will have access to the gift card code inside of Return Magic, so you can search for it by copy-pasting the code inside of Shopify.

My Shopify plan does not support gift cards

If your Shopify account does not support gift card creation, then you have the option of manually generate discount codes that can serve a similar purpose. Below is a video of one way of generating these. You can then send that discount code to your customers manually.

You can also download another app in Shopify that creates gift card codes for you.