Do gift card purchases reflect in my site's payout?

Topic summary

  • Main issue: Whether an order paid with a Shopify gift card results in a new payout to the store.

  • Merchant reports not seeing any payout for a purchase completed using a gift card previously bought on their site.

  • Clarification provided: The store receives funds at the time the gift card is purchased; redeeming the gift card to buy products does not generate an additional payout.

  • Status: Partially answered; no confirmation from the original poster and no concrete resolution on the missing payout observation.

Summarized with AI on January 8. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi, if someone uses a gift card that was purchased from your site to purchase products on your site. Do you receive that money? Because I don’t see it in my payout and I never received money from that purchase.

They purchased money when buying your gift card.