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Use digital gift cards on and offline

Instead of buying the wrong gift, send a digital gift card and you can’t go wrong.  

If you are like me, you love to shop on Amazon and the iTunes store. I like to support local retailers too. If I like something, I like to share it with others.


I could get you a gift certificate, they are popular locally. Much as I like to share, I am no fan of gift certificates.  

Buy or redeem your digital gift card just about anywhere you have internet access


Gift Certificates

First, you usually have to pay for it in-store. Then you have to see the person or arrange delivery of the physical paper certificate. Often, the certificate is for a specific service or item. Finally, the recipient usually has to spend the value in one shot because it’s hard for the retailer to track.


Here’s a solution to consider: BlinkSky Jamaica.

Digital Gift Card


A locally owned and operated licensee of BlinkSky International, the digital gift card provider offers one-click access to big-name international retailers like Walmart, Target, Forever 21, Gap Kohl’s and over a thousand more brands plus scores of local stores like Fontana (my one stop gift shop), Quantum Concepts and Juci Patties.

From the secure website, you can easily buy a gift card and send it via SMS text or email. Your beneficiary receives the digital gift card in the blink of an eye … get it? Ok, ok. I will buy the next round of drinks.  

Anyway. Your recipient can redeem the gift card online or in-store, either way, it's pretty easy, and the best part is, there is no app. No app to download or navigate. Just tap on the secure link in the text or email. While in-store, display the bar code for scanning; while online copy/paste the voucher code and that is it, for the most part.

Some sites or retailers may ask for additional verification using a PIN for security purposes they say. I haven’t encountered this so far in my experience.

Digital Features

Not ready to spend it all? No problem. With the soon to be extinct gift voucher that antiquated retailers are holding on to, you had to spend it all one time because there is no practical way for stores to track your balances.  


But BlinkSky’s digital gift card makes it easy for both the beneficiary and the store to know the remaining balance in real-time. Just tap the “card” on the screen and what it “rotate” to show the balance and other relevant details on the back.  

Emily Post and common sense both tell us it’s polite to send a card with a gift. So, leveraging technology, BlinkSky lets you send a note via text or a short video with each gift card purchase.

In addition to now-ubiquitous VISA and Mastercard, you can pay for your gift card via PayPal and ApplePay! How cool is that? Apple Pay. In Jamaica. (Yes, I am an Apple Fanboy. So sue me).


Everyday Use

BlinkSky will be my lifesaver to reward the deserving school teacher I never physically met because of COVID-19 protocol observed lockdowns. Same for the co-worker’s birthday I missed because of “work-from-home” orders and for the grandparents, I can’t visit while they celebrate their anniversary.  

After COVID-19, the touches, technology-driven platform will save me from driving up and down.

Here’s another tip: gift yourself digital gift cards and spend at multiple websites, online stores and brands without ever revealing your personal credit card info.

Ready. Set. Shop.