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What is Paytronix CXP?

Combining online ordering, loyalty, omnichannel messaging, AI insights, and payments in one platform. Paytronix delivers relevant, personal experiences, at scale, that help improve your entire digital marketing funnel by creating amazing frictionless experiences.

A Complete Customer Experience Platform
Online Ordering
Acquire new customers and capture valuable data with industry leading customization features.
Loyalty
Encourage More visits and higher spend with personalized promotions based on individual activity and preferences.
CRM
Build great customer relationships with relevant personal omnichannel campaigns delivered at scale.
Artificial Intelligence
Leverage the most data from the most customer transactions to power 1:1 marketing campaigns and drive revenue.
Payments
Drive brand engagement by providing fast, frictionless guest payments.

Solutions

Paytronix CXP Solutions

We use data, customer experience expertise, and technology to solve everyday restaurant and convenience store challenges.

Contactless Experiences
Accommodate your guests' changing preferences by providing safe, efficient service whether dining-in or taking out.
Customer Insights
Collect guest data and analyze behaviors to develop powerful targeted campaigns that produce amazing results.
Marketing Automation
Create and test campaigns across channels and segments to drive loyalty, incremental visits, and additional revenue.
Mobile Experiences
Provide convenient access to your brand, menus and loyalty program to drive retention with a branded or custom app.

Subscriptions
Create a frictionless, fun way to reward your most loyal customers for frequent visits and purchases while normalizing revenues.
Employee Dining
Attract and retain your employees with dollar value or percentage-based incentives and tiered benefits.
Order Experience Builder
Create powerful interactive, and appealing online menus that attract and acquire new customers simply and easily.

Multi-Unit Restaurant

Loyalty Programs
High-impact customizable programs that increase spend, visit, and engagement with your brand.
Online Ordering
Maximize first-party digital sales with an exceptional guest experience.
Integrations
Launch your programs with more than 450 existing integrations.

Small to Medium Restaurants

Loyalty Programs
Deliver the same care you do in person with all your digital engagements.
Online Ordering
Drive more first-party orders and make it easy for your crew.

Convenience Stores

Loyalty Programs
Digital transformations start here - get to know your guests.
Online Ordering
Add a whole new sales channel to grow your business - digital ordering is in your future.
Integrations
We work with your environment - check it out.

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About Paytronix

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Learn more about topics important to the restaurant and c-store customer experience.
Webinars
Watch brief videos for tips and strategies to connect with your customers.
Case Studies
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2024 Gift Card Trend Report

Are you overlooking these 8 reasons to sell mobile-first gift cards?

3 min read

5 Gift Card Sales Predictions for This Holiday Season

Top Predictions: 

  • Total holiday gift card sales value will be up, while the total number of cards sold will be down. 
  • Digital gift card sales will continue their rise. 
  • Unless there’s another country-wide storm, the 23rd of December will once again be the biggest day of gift card sales. 
  • More consumers will opt for higher value gift cards. 
  • Fine dining gift card sales will continue to rise, QSRs sales will fall. 
     

According to Paytronix Gift Card Data from the last several years, some retailers have much to be cheerful about. The data shows that the shift to digital gift cards is in full swing and that dining trends across the country continue to edge towards sit-down concepts. But despite the swing to digital, an arctic blast last December translated to lower gift card sales on a key shopping day, demonstrating that gift card sales are not insulated from factors such as weather. 

Last year, holiday gift card sales were largely up across the board. The total dollar value of cards sold was up 2.2% versus 2019 and up 1.4% since 2021. 2022 was the best year for gift card sales in recent memory, with more dollars spent on gift cards between Black Friday and Christmas Eve than any year since 2019. With inflation still higher than usual, we predict that this year, the total value of holiday gift card sales will reach a new high. 

However, while the total dollars spent on gift cards has increased, the number of gift cards sold was substantially lower than previous years. For the holiday period from November to December, numbers of gift cards sold dropped by 5.1% vs 2019 and by 10.7% from 2022. However, this trend has a notable exception: digital gift cards. Between Black Friday and Christmas Eve 2022, the value of physical gift cards dropped nearly a fifth (22%) vs 2019 and 7.9% since 2021. Digital gift cards, on the other hand, saw the value of sales increase by a whopping 77% since 2019 for the same time period, while the value of digital gift cards sold also increased 4.6% since 2021. We predict that digital cards will continue their rise and that the value per card will continue to increase. 

One trend of note during the Holiday Season of 2022 was the impact of a severe winter storm that froze out a large portion of the country just before Christmas. As shown in the chart below, December 23 is typically the best day for gift card sales. While this still held true for 2022, gift card sales suffered significantly, with numbers of cards sold per day down 32.6% from 2019, down 23% since 2022, and down 10.9 percent since 2020 during the height of the worst year on record. Shoppers who procrastinated had to find other stocking stuffers as the weather prevented last-minute shopping. However, we predict that if the weather is normal on December 23, that the gift dollars loaded will reach a new high on this critical day (and if your brand is concerned about the risk of bad weather, consider offering a promotion earlier in the season, like this sports bar did). 

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Inflation has also impacted the values of gift cards sold.  $5 and $10 cards were far more popular in 2019, representing 11.2% and 16.7% of gift cards sold that year, respectively. During 2022, the sales of those values of cards dropped approximately 3% each, with sales of each representing 8.8% and 14.1% of total gift cards sold, respectively. On the other hand, sales of higher value gift cards increased to match, with sales of $50 growing from 12.2% to 16.3% and $100 gift cards getting a boost from 6% to 7.8%. As inflation has continued this year, we predict that higher value cards will increase in popularity. 

Finally, gift card sales this holiday season reveal that, 2 years out from the worst year on record, consumer tastes are changing. Between Black Friday and Christmas Eve, the value of gift cards sold for QSRs dropped 3.2% compared to 2019 and 6.9% compared to 2021. But the value of cards for fine-dining restaurants has increased 9% compared to 2019 and by 3.7% as compared to 2021, indicating a building demand to revisit concepts with a sit-down model. Moreover, dollars spent per day for fine-dining gift cards during the holiday season is up 80% as compared to 2020’s holiday season, indicating the trends of the 2020 are receding. While there were variants of note in 2023, we predict the fine-dining resurgence will continue, while the value of cards sold at QSRs will hold approximately the same. 

So, what does this all mean for restaurants? Inflation has taken its toll on the American consumer, but as previous Paytronix resources have shown, loyalty offerings like gift cards are an effective shield against inflation. Moreover, the concepts that suffered the worst during the pandemic will continue their resurgence. Finally, the proliferation of digital gift cards shows that digital guest engagement is increasing in popularity and will likely continue to build in popularity. 

And of course, cross your fingers for good weather on December 23rd

 

 

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