Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?
Alas, the promotion I was making use of ends on Dec 20. So that method won’t work. It’s a good idea, though.
Not sure how such a site would handle payments for the gift cards, though? I sure wouldn’t want to be collecting credit card details and passing them through to Woolies via some API. Any API they have (if they have one) is unlikely to accept payments. It sounds like it’d be less work to make a competing egift card site.
Woolies will not have an API for this, therefore you have two options, you could do both.
a) Schedule the payment from their card (encryption is easy) and charge a % processing fee, declined payments are charged at y% and no gift card is distributed.
b) Take the payment immediately and hold it in an offshore companies account with one of your subsidiary companies. Sched the payment from that account.
You could offer both, but with b) you get the fun of having their money in your third cousin’s business account in Belize to turn that $100 gift card for their gran into $200 before buying buying the gift card and distributing it on time.
If that fails your third cousin’s company can go bankrupt I guess. Shame for them, I’m ure they’ll land on their feet in their next company.
On the implementation, any website can be scraped / populated with bare basics, so you’d just have to set up a schedule to actually do that to be a legit business without needing to have to get buy in from stores on accepting your special new fooCard.
Alas, the promotion I was making use of ends on Dec 20. So that method won’t work. It’s a good idea, though.
Not sure how such a site would handle payments for the gift cards, though? I sure wouldn’t want to be collecting credit card details and passing them through to Woolies via some API. Any API they have (if they have one) is unlikely to accept payments. It sounds like it’d be less work to make a competing egift card site.
Think a little more grey.
Woolies will not have an API for this, therefore you have two options, you could do both.
a) Schedule the payment from their card (encryption is easy) and charge a % processing fee, declined payments are charged at y% and no gift card is distributed.
b) Take the payment immediately and hold it in an offshore companies account with one of your subsidiary companies. Sched the payment from that account.
You could offer both, but with b) you get the fun of having their money in your third cousin’s business account in Belize to turn that $100 gift card for their gran into $200 before buying buying the gift card and distributing it on time.
If that fails your third cousin’s company can go bankrupt I guess. Shame for them, I’m ure they’ll land on their feet in their next company.
On the implementation, any website can be scraped / populated with bare basics, so you’d just have to set up a schedule to actually do that to be a legit business without needing to have to get buy in from stores on accepting your special new fooCard.