Spa Gift Vouchers and Gift Cards for Your Spa

What do spas sell as gift vouchers?

Three kinds: a named spa day or package, a single treatment, and a money value the holder spends as they like. A named spa day is the easier present to buy, and a money value leaves the choice to the person receiving it.

You can sell two side by side: your best-selling spa day printed on its own card, and one design with a write-on panel for everything else, so a new treatment never needs a new card. Our gift card printing guide compares the four ways to set gift cards up.

These are some of the spa designs in our gift card examples: select one to see its front and back.

The numbers and codes on the examples are only examples.

Run a salon rather than a spa? See gift cards for salons and barbers.

How should a spa day package be worded on a gift card?

Print the package’s name on the card, and describe what’s in it on the wallet or your website, in words that stay true when your menu changes. Here’s a made-up spa’s package card, front and back.

1. Your spa’s name and logo. The first thing the recipient sees is who it’s from.
2. The words “Gift Card”, so it reads as a present.
3. The package, by name. No price and no year, so the card doesn’t date.
4. How to book: ahead, quoting the card number.
5. The card’s own number, printed on every card, so each one can be found in your booking system or register and marked used after the visit. Ask to see the card when the guest arrives, so a guessed number can’t be used for a visit.
6. Valid until, and who sold it, written in when the card is sold. Write-on panels take an ordinary ballpoint pen.
7. A QR code to your booking page, the same on every card, so it’s part of your artwork. Keep it at least 15mm square.
8. Two or three lines of terms: the days it can be used, notice to change a booking, and any minimum age.

Sorrelmere Spa is made up for this page, and both sides are drawn to scale at 86 x 54mm. The QR code is an illustration and won’t scan.

• Name the package, not what’s in it today. “Spa Day for Two” stays true when your treatments change; a named facial or a product brand may not.
• Describe treatments by type and length, such as a 25-minute treatment each, wherever you list what a package includes.
• Leave off prices. If your prices go up, you still honour the card.
• Leave off therapists’ names and a printed year. Staff move on, and a written valid-until date lets one batch of cards last as long as it takes to sell.

Each printed package or amount is its own design, with a minimum of 25 cards per design, and each is quoted. So print the packages that sell best, and use one design with a write-on panel for the rest.

What terms should a spa gift voucher carry?

The ones a guest needs before booking: which days it can be used, that visits must be booked ahead, any minimum age for your facilities, how long it’s valid, and what happens if they don’t turn up. If a voucher is for weekdays or off-peak times only, print that on the card itself. These lines are a starting point: change the words in brackets to match how your spa works.

Two or three lines fit on the card. The wallet has room for more, and your full terms go on your website. Keep the same words on the card, the wallet and the website.

What happens on a missed booking is your decision, but keeping the whole value of the voucher could be unfair. The Competition and Markets Authority’s guide to writing a fair contract says a term is unlikely to be fair if it makes prepayments non-refundable whatever the reason the customer cancels, and more likely to be fair when keeping money reflects a genuine estimate of your direct loss. It also says written terms must be transparent, and a term that could have a significant effect on the customer must be made prominent, so make yours clear before anyone buys. This is general information, not legal advice.

If your vouchers expire, the date must be clear and the terms fair: see gift card VAT and expiry rules. In the Gift Card & Voucher Association’s State of the Nation report for 2025, expiry dates were the most common reason UK consumers gave for not buying gift cards (28%), so print yours where it’s easy to see. For a full set of terms to copy, see gift card terms and conditions.

Can a spa sell gift vouchers online and still send a printed card?

Yes. Voucher platforms that sell to spas, such as Giftpro and Enjovia, offer postal delivery as well as email, and both let you send vouchers out yourself, so a buyer can choose an e-voucher or a card in a wallet. At the desk, you sell the printed card and record its number.

Either way, the number on the card has to be one your system can find. There are two ways to do that:

• Use the card’s own number. Some booking systems let staff type in or scan the number printed on a card, including one bought online and posted out.
• Use the system’s code. If your platform creates a code for each voucher, as Giftpro does, write it on a write-on panel on the card or in the wallet before you post it, and check with the platform first.

We read each system’s help pages in November 2026. Features change, so confirm with your supplier, and ask which barcode it reads and how long its numbers can be before you order. Some platforms only post stock ordered through them, as VoucherCart does, so ask that too. Our guide to gift cards with barcodes covers barcode types and sizes.

We can’t test cards on your system. To try real cards first, add a postal proof to your order.

Physical cards still sell: in the second half of 2025, they were 46% of the sales reported by members of the Gift Card & Voucher Association, and grew 21% on a year earlier. Our page on digital vs plastic gift cards compares the two.

How do you make a spa gift card feel like a luxury present?

Give it a finish that suits your spa, and hand it over in a printed carrier or wallet: a card handed over bare undersells what the customer has just paid for.

• Premium Matt gives a softer, understated look and helps disguise scratches on dark designs. It’s £20 +vat per order, and High Gloss, which makes colours richer, is included. Compare the two.
• Gold or silver. A metallic base card makes the whole card gold or silver, and metallic foiling picks out just your logo, in simple line art. White can’t be printed on a metallic base card.
• Our metallic hot foil cards are printed by a different process and quoted from your design. They can’t carry photographs, and a barcode or QR code on them has to be the same on every card. If you’d like them numbered, ask us first.

Carriers are printed in full colour on 350gsm silk board, produced alongside your card order and supplied unattached to the cards. Colours on board won’t be quite the same as on the card: the same CMYK reads slightly warmer on board. Our design service can set up the card and the wallet together, and how to design a gift card carrier covers the layout. Our card carriers and wallets page has every format, with templates and prices. Landscape wallets start at £89.00 +vat for 25.

How do you post a spa gift voucher to the buyer?

Put the card in a landscape wallet with the package described inside, fold it, and post it in an envelope. Folded, the wallet is 75 x 105mm, so it goes in a standard envelope.

1. The package, described inside: what it includes, in words that stay true when your menu changes.
2. A handwritten message from the buyer, if they’d like one.
3. Die cut slits hold the card at two corners.
4. The crease. Folded, the wallet is 75 x 105mm.

1. SellTake the order online or at the desk, and note who the card is for.
2. RecordEnter the card’s number in your booking system or register, with the package and the price.
3. WriteFill in the valid-until date on the card, and the buyer’s message in the wallet.
4. PostFold the wallet into an envelope and post it to the buyer, or straight to the person it’s for.

Record each card before it goes in the post. If one goes astray, you can mark that number as lost in your register and send another. Our gift card printing guide shows a simple register.

Do hotel spas need different gift vouchers?

No. A hotel spa sells the same spa days, treatments and money values, and its cards can sit beside the hotel’s own vouchers for stays and dining. Our page on gift vouchers for hotels covers the stays and dining side.

Decide whether a spa voucher can also be spent in the restaurant or on a room, and say so in your terms. Whether VAT is due when you sell a card or when it’s spent depends on what it can be spent on: see gift card VAT and expiry rules.

Hotel systems handle spa days too. The Access Group’s hotel voucher software lists a spa day among the experience vouchers a hotel can sell with it, emailed with the hotel’s branding, and says hotels can produce physical copies too. Agilysys Book4Time, spa software for hotels and resorts, lists gift cards among its features: ask them how a printed card’s number is entered.

When do spa gift vouchers sell, and how many should you order?

They sell all year, with peaks before Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, and birthdays in between. Most small businesses start with 100 to 250 cards.

In the Gift Card & Voucher Association’s State of the Nation report for 2025, 66% of UK gift card buyers had bought one as a birthday present in the last 12 months, and 45% for Christmas. So keep your vouchers on sale all year, not just in December.

Order well before each peak: production takes 7 working days from proof approval and payment. Numbered cards carry on from the last number issued when you re-order, so you can start small. Companies buy spa vouchers for their staff too, so tell local firms you sell your own. For more ideas, see how to sell more gift cards.

How do you order printed spa gift vouchers?

Email sales@cpcards.co.uk or use our gift card quote form, and tell us what you sell as gifts. We often reply within minutes, 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. A first order for a day spa might look like this:

• 100 to 250 full colour gift cards (from £85.00 +vat for 100 of one design), 86 x 54mm and 760 microns thick, printed on both sides
• Two designs: your best-selling spa day printed by name, and one with a write-on panel for treatments and money values
• Numbering from a number you choose, or from a spreadsheet: your booking system’s numbers, or random numbers if a card can be spent online with its number alone (see numbered gift cards)
• A QR code to your booking page, the same on every card, built into your artwork at no extra cost
• Premium Matt (£20 +vat per order) or High Gloss (included)
• Landscape wallets for the vouchers you post, and card sleeves for the desk

Write-on panels, numbering and barcodes are priced on your quote. The cards are printed in full colour on both sides, then bonded between clear PVC sheets and cut, so the print can’t scratch or wear off.

Every order gets a free email proof, so you can check the layout and wording before anything is printed. The colours on the proof are a guide only, because every screen shows colour differently. If a colour has to be right, add a postal proof: it’s optional, for full colour cards only, £65 +vat, and takes around 5 working days.

Production takes 7 working days from proof approval and payment. Express takes 3 to 4 working days: ask us for cost and availability. No artwork? Our in-house design service is £29 +vat, and can set up the card and the wallet together.

How much do they cost?

Gift cards start at £75.00 +vat for 25, and the price per card falls as the quantity goes up, because much of the work in an order is the same whatever the quantity.

Prices are for one design from your print-ready artwork. Delivery is free within Great Britain, and our delivery prices list the charges for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. They exclude VAT and extras such as numbering, which are priced on your quote. Carriers are priced separately.