Love Drogheda BID has unveiled a new digital version of its popular physical Love Drogheda Gift Card, now available for corporate orders as a digital e-card to enhance the ease and convenience of supporting local businesses in the area.
The new digital e-card version of the Love Drogheda Gift Card can be uploaded to digital wallets using the Love Local app, enabling the recipient to ‘tap to pay’ with a wide variety of participating businesses including services, retail and hospitality. The physical Love Drogheda Gift Card is still available.
Over €700k of Love Drogheda Gift Cards have been sold since its launch -money that must be spent with the 240+ registered businesses who accept the Gift Card, locking spend into the local economy.
Trevor Connolly from Love Drogheda BID said: “We’re excited to build on the success of the physical Love Drogheda Gift Card with a digital e-card option for corporate orders, making it easier than ever for people to support local businesses. Businesses choosing to be local heroes and support Drogheda with their staff rewards this Christmas can now send a digital Love Drogheda Gift Card to the recipient in minutes, enhancing the convenience of the initiative, especially for last minute gifts. With our new digital e-card, we’re positioning our program for the future so we can keep our local businesses open and thriving for many years to come.”
The new e-cards will make it even easier for businesses to gift their staff the Love Drogheda gift card, allowing them to choose exactly when the card will land in their employees’ inbox, ready to download onto Google or Apple pay and get spending.
The Love Drogheda Gift Card is part of the Town & City Gift Card concept from Miconex, active across Ireland. Colin Munro is the CEO of Miconex and said: “Digital Gift Cards continue to rise in popularity in the UK. We’re also seeing a significant upwards trend in the usage of mobile wallets. The ability to instantly send a friend or family member a digital Love Drogheda Gift Card that they can add to their mobile wallet and tap to pay is incredibly exciting and marks an important step in the evolution of the card, enhancing convenience and accessibility for a wide variety of users.”
If you are a business owner and you wish to order either physical or digital Love Drogheda gift cards for your staff this Christmas, please visit corporate.townandcitygiftcards.ie to start your order. From now until Christmas, corporate digital orders will have zero fees-just another great reason to support your shop local gift card, the Love Drogheda gift card this Christmas.
