I have notified support and am awaiting some advice but I figured I would post here as well.

We are moving from ASPDNSF and have used Gift cards alot. These are cards that customers purchased from us as either gifts or for their own use and sold outside of our storefront. I need a way for customers to use these cards and show the remaining balance.

The trick is these Giftcards are not assigned to a customer. If you know the code you can use it. However in Catalook If I set this giftcard to say 100.00 and Customer A  uses it all is fine and the balance works however if Customer B then goes to use the same card # it starts off at the intial balance of 100.00 and not the reamaining balance. As you can see we would go broke quickly . 

Does anyone know of any setting or modification that I could make to tie the balance to the Gift card code and not to the user?  From what I can tell balances are derived and not stored in the DB.

What I would like to be able to do is to have a table that has

Card Number, Initial amount, Remaining amount, Date purchased,....

and in the order details show the card number as a credit note or coupon code

and while I am asking I would like to tie it a cart rule .(product categories, not include shipping etc..)

I need to have this project fininshed in the next 2 weeks and this has become a major stumbling block. I would be willing to pay for some custom development if the time window could be met. - Thanks in advance.  Daniel

dedwards (at) buckmasters (dot) com