To sell gift certificates for your Hyena Cart here are some options.

Use the Discount Codes feature in Hyena Cart

Stock your gift certificate for sale like a regular item in your Hyena Cart.  Just create a new listing and put it in whatever category you want and make the total price the amount you want to offer the gift certificate for.  Once it sells you will receive a notice and you can login, create your code and print off a certificate to mail, or zip an email, to the customer with the code.  Be sure you include in the listing if the customer will receive the code via email or if you will be snail mailing them a printed certificate.

To create your code, start by logging into your Vendor Pages and clicking “Discount Codes” to get to the discount page.  Now create a new discount code for the amount of the gift certificate.  If you want a single-use gift certificate, you might want to name the code something like CustomerName20 or Customer2389 — something not easy to guess but easy for you to identify.

Next,  you’ll want to either print a certificate and put the code and amount on it to be mailed to the customer, or type up an email to the customer with the information.  Include a note that when they want to redeem it they will put that code into the “Discount Code” box during checkout.  The amount will be automatically deducted from their total.

Now watch your order list and once you see that gift certificate has been redeemed, you’ll login to your Vendor Pages, click Discount Codes, and delete that code from your list so it can’t be used again.

Use the Gift Certificate Feature through PayPal

The other option is to use PayPal’s gift certificate feature.   Your customer can purchase a gift certificate, and PayPal holds the funds until the gift certificate is redeemed.

Details here: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Merchant/merchant/GCIntro

If you’re on Multi Cart it doesn’t have the same “Past Items” feature that the Standard Cart has.

But as a workaround, if you’d like to show off your past items, here are some options:

1) You can make a category called Past Items, then change the category of the sold item to “Past Items.” They’ll show up as long as the end time is in the future and the “Show” button is clicked. Just make sure quantity is set to 0 (zero) so no one repurchases the item.

2) You could also setup a slideshow of your past item pictures somewhere like photobucket or flickr and then copy the code for it into a new item titled “Past Items” and display your photos that way.

3) Or  use the built-in gallery feature.

Any of the three options above will allow you to display your past items for visitors to browse.

Got a product or service you want to offer on a monthly subscription through PayPal or another system but still stock the item for sale through your Hyena Cart? It can be done!

Here are the steps:

1) When you enter the description for your new item, include this code in the description box to blank out (hide) the add to cart button with css code (so no one gets confused and clicks it):

<style type=”text/css”>
.addToCartButton {
font-size: 0px;
color:#ffffff;
border: 0px solid #ffffff;
background-color:#ffffff;
}
</style>

2) Go to PayPal and generate a subscription link with the options you want to use. Or generate a button from whatever payment system you will use. I use this method to run my info product sales through my account with www.WAHMCart.com and it works as well.

3) Now copy the code you just generated to create your own “add to cart” button into the product’s description wherever you’d like it to appear.

And there ya go! Subscriptions automatically created from your Hyena Cart will send the orders directly through PayPal or the system of your choice and send you automatic payments every month.

Two important things to note if you do this:

1) The order only goes through PayPal, not HC, so there will be no order record in HC and no automatic feedback (they can leave feedback in the forum).

2) No inventory control so you’d want to remove the button manually or mark the product to hidden if you don’t want more subscriptions.
Always be sure to test your setup once you’ve completed the steps to be sure it works the way you want it to.

If you use your Hyena Cart as your main website and make fake product listings for your “about me” or other informational pages, you can use this code to make the “add to cart” button disappear.

<style type=”text/css”>
.addToCartButton {
font-size: 0px;
color:#ffffff;
border: 0px solid #ffffff;
background-color:#ffffff;
}
</style>

If your main area of your cart has a different background color than white, just change all the color codes from #ffffff to your color code.

And now the “Add to Cart” button is gone!