National Gift Card Now Offers API in both U.S. AND Canada
Gift cards for Amazon.ca, Best Buy, iTunes, Starbucks, etc. are just a click away
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill., Oct. 28, 2015 /CNW/ -- With an estimated 68% of Canadians using smartphones, the National Gift Card Corp. (NGC), announced it recently expanded its U.S.-based proprietary application programming interface (API) to Canada where it will provide customers in that country with electronic gift cards in real time.
Like the U.S. version, the Canadian gift card API allows B2B program buyers and clients in the loyalty, rewards, incentive, benefit, and membership industries to quickly integrate with NGC's catalog and send eGift cards in real time to program participants tapping into the reality that as many as 84% of smartphone users shop via their phones.
According to NGC Business Development Senior Vice President Eric Thiegs, "Our real time gift card API is ideal for loyalty programs, survey participants, customers, or employees who not only get their reward quickly but also are able to shop right away. This can be especially important for engaging millennials and tech-savvy users who expect a robust mobile experience."
In addition to increased speed, the API offers operational ease for rewards program administrators. "With the API, we are able to send gift cards at any scale needed at the same time we are able to manage the real-time operational aspects of connecting with the retailers' processors, activating the eGift cards, and even helping to deliver final eGift cards via a branded program email to reward recipients," said Chief Technology Officer Joan Travelstead.
NGC's gift card API augments its traditional plastic and digital gift card fulfillment solutions that currently service more than 2,000 B2B client accounts in the U.S. and Canada. Retailers such as Amazon.ca, Bass Pro Shops, Groupon, WaySpa and Visa® will be offered via the gift card API.
For more about the API, please contact ngc-group.ca or call (888) 472-8747.
About National Gift Card Corp Founded in 2004, National Gift Card Corp (NGC) offers a range of fulfillment, distribution, sales and marketing management solutions for gift cards, gift certificates and digital codes in the USA, Canada and Europe. With services available to brands, corporate and non-profit businesses, NGC prides itself on great customer service using innovative, proprietary online systems giving agents, businesses and issuers easy access to purchase gift cards, gift certificates and digital codes individually or in bulk.
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