Many businesses start thinking about adding a gift card program but don’t know where to start. With the right help, implementing a gift card program doesn’t need to be difficult. There are a few things to decide, one of them being whether you want to offer a closed-loop or open-loop gift card program.

You're making a great decision by ordering gift cards for your business. Relax and let CARDSource walk you through the process. We’ll give you some helpful tips along the way to ensure your gift cards match your business and goals. Placing an order for gift cards is simple, but taking a few extra moments to ensure you're focused on your business and your customers can make it a real success.

In October, CARDSource employees had a beautiful day to complete our scheduled street cleanup. For the last four years, CARDSource has volunteered their time to clean local streets by participating in the City of Eagan’s Adopt-A-Street program.

You’ve probably heard the statistics about how it is easier to keep an existing customer than trying to attract a new customer.

Production of gift cards is, first and foremost, a printing process.

The customer's logo and design is reproduced on a plastic card and a unique number is added to each individual card. The vast majority of these are constructed using PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic.

Customized gift cards for small business are a great way to increase sales and loyalty.

Long ago, large retailers recognized the many benefits of selling gift cards at their locations.

A gift card is simply a physical representation of a dollar value stored in a database.

Every gift card includes a unique number in the form of a barcode, magnetic stripe, encoded chip, or even something as simple as a plain human readable number. It is that number which is activated, or “loaded”, with the proper dollar amount. This is done in the gift card transaction system database.

We volunteered our time to help clean our local streets in Eagan.

It’s no secret that the CARDSource staff likes fishing. Therefore, it was no surprise this year when there was an employee-run fishing event for the 2016 fishing opener!

Celebrating Earth Day with a battle of coins!

In 1970, the first Earth Day gave voice to an emerging consciousness, channeling human energy toward environmental issues. Forty-six years later, we continue to lead with groundbreaking ideas and by the power of example. Earth Day achieves a rare political and social alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons, and labor leaders. (earthday.org).

In CARDSource’s first big push of community action, we divvied our staff up into two teams and headed off to Feed My Starving Children in Eagan to make some meals for children in need! Combined with several other groups of volunteers, we packed a total of 304 boxes of food. To put this in perspective, this is 54,000 total meals, which will feed 148 children for an entire year!

Continuing in the giving tradition of the season, CARDSource has decided to participate in 360 Communities’ Armful of Love program.