Gift Card Serial Number

[smg2]

Is there anything sacred about the serial number generated with a gift card? Can I change it (shorten) without any repercussions? Thanks in advance!

[AspDotNetStorefront Staff - Scott]

There shouldn't be any problems with changing those.

[DanV]

Just make sure the numbers are unique and not easily guessed... Eg. a sequential number would not be a good idea, since if I have card number 12345, I could probably guess 12346 and 12347 pretty easily, and use other peoples' gift cards.

[tjfdownsouth]

Is there a way to have the email gift card issue something other than a guid? I see where manually i can set it to what ever i want but when then cart generates it is a little long.

Thanks,
Tim

[Jao]

Well, you could create an email-type gift card on the Admin: Gift Card Management and change the serial number field to your desired series of character instead of using the auto-generated GUID...

[tjfdownsouth]

Is there a way to automate this or does this require the source to modify the routine?

Tim

[Jao]

Well, yes, that would require a modification on the GiftCard class, instead of using GUID, you could use the built-in Random class...