Coffee Culture
Personalise the Gift Card: Design Your Coffee Gift Yourself
A code is quickly sent. A card stays.
A code in an email is practical, but when it is unwrapped it feels like very little. That is why you can now design the gift card for your Röstpost gift yourself: with words that only fit the two of you, a photo from your last holiday or a little drawing. Then you buy exactly that card and print it.
It works for both ways of giving: the gift subscription, where every delivery comes from a different Swiss roastery, and gift credit from CHF 10, which lets the recipient pick their own coffees in the marketplace.
Twelve templates for every occasion
You do not have to start from scratch. For most occasions there is a ready-made template with matching text and decoration:
- Standard and Blank, if you want to start yourself
- Christmas: "Freshly roasted, under the tree."
- Birthday, Thank you and New home
- Fresh start, Retirement and Ski holiday
- Midlife crisis ("No sports car. But very good coffee.") and Quarter-life crisis
- For coffee fans: "Grind: fine. Mood: excellent."
Every template is just a starting point. You can change, move or delete any text.
What you can customise
Text and fonts
Tap a text to change it, or add a new one with "+ Text". You choose the font and size. Dragging moves a text, and the arrow on the element lets you resize and rotate it.
Frames, decorations and motifs
Frames range from fine to dashed to a postage stamp, in a colour of your choice. You can combine several decorations, from confetti and balloons to fir branches and snowflakes to mountains and coffee gear. With "+ Motif" you add individual motifs to the card.
Your own photos, stickers and drawings
With "+ Image or sticker" you add your own photo to the card. On an iPhone or iPad it is even easier: in the Photos app, long-press a subject, choose "Copy", then long-press the card and tap "Paste". That turns a holiday photo into a cut-out sticker. If you prefer to write or draw by hand, use the "Draw" tool, with your finger or an Apple Pencil.
With or without the amount
Rather nobody sees how much you gave? Tick "Don't show the amount on the front".
In four languages
The card is available in German, French, Italian and English. When you switch the language, the template texts switch too. Your own texts stay exactly as you wrote them.
How it works, step by step
- Open the gift page and tap "Personalise the gift card" under the gift subscription or the gift credit.
- Design your card. Everything is saved continuously in your browser.
- Choose the amount or the subscription at the bottom and tap "Buy with this card".
- After payment you receive an email with the code. Tap "Personalise the gift card" there, and your card is back, now with the code.
- Print it on A4 or save it as a PDF. The back shows the code, a QR code and short instructions for redeeming.
Bought without designing first? No problem. The same button in the email takes you to the designer with the code already filled in, and you simply design the card now.
Your card stays with you
One thing mattered to me: Röstpost does not store your card. Texts, photos and drawings stay in your browser on your device and are never uploaded. That also means: open the link from the email on the same device and in the same browser you used to design it. If the card gets lost, for example because you clear your browser data, simply design a new one. The code stays valid.
One last tip
Print the card on slightly thicker paper, fold it in the middle and put it in an envelope. Together with a bag of freshly roasted coffee from the marketplace, it becomes a gift that is not easily forgotten. More ideas in Coffee as a Christmas gift and Coffee voucher or gift subscription: which suits whom?
Have fun designing! Questions or ideas for new templates? Write to me at mahlzeit@roestpost.ch.
