Buy a gift card

Are you buying a digital gift card as a code? Digital gift cards, delivered as a code.

A gift card is bought in about thirty seconds. Where it is redeemable is the decision that actually matters, and it is made before you pay.

Treat the code that comes back the way you would treat cash.

Step by step

1. Install Kpali. The Android package is app.kpali; Kpali is on the App Store for iPhone. There is no browser version — money screens gate on the device.
2. Fund store credit. Open Add money. Choose USDT or USDC, then the network — TRC-20 credits after twenty confirmations, BEP-20 after fifteen. The warning about the network is above the address because sending on the wrong chain cannot be undone by anyone. The minimum is shown before the address.
3. Decide whose credit this is. Your email in the email field notifies you. Somebody else's email credits them instead, and they are told when it lands.
4. Wait for Home. Store credit appears when the deposit confirms. An address is not money.
5. Set the country. The country decides what the catalogue can sell. Home is where it starts.
6. Open Gift cards. Home → Gift cards → brand → denomination → Pay → code on receipt.
7. Enter the recipient. You (code) or the person you send it to. There is no lookup for this product, so read it back carefully.
8. Read the review sheet. It states the recipient and what leaves your wallet, fee included, before anything is charged.
9. Pay. If store credit cannot cover the amount plus the fee, Pay does not proceed and nothing is sent to a provider.
10. Keep the receipt. A code on the receipt, with the brand, the face value and the redemption country recorded in History.

What to expect

The receipt holds the code. It is the canonical copy — a screenshot is a backup, not the record. History keeps the brand and the face value so an old purchase is still identifiable. Store credit on Home moves by what you paid, which is shown before you buy.

A refusal is clean: the money comes back and the receipt says nothing was charged. An unresolved outcome is different, and paying again is the one thing that turns it into a real loss. On this walkthrough that matters at the last step: once you have paid for gift cards, the receipt is the thing to read, not the Pay button to press again.

What goes wrong

• Buying a brand redeemable in a country the recipient is not in.
• Sharing the code before it has been redeemed.
• Choosing a denomination the brand will not accept for the intended purchase.
• Keeping only a screenshot of the code.

What you will see

What follows are photographs of the app itself, so the layout you read here is the layout you will meet. These are the screens this page refers to when it says buy a gift card. Both the light and the dark theme appear, because the app follows your phone.

• Kpali gift card brands with the country each one is redeemable in (light theme)
• Kpali gift card brands in dark mode (dark theme)
• Choosing a gift card denomination on Kpali with the USD you pay (light theme)
• Kpali help explaining why a gift card was declined and what happens next (light theme)

A worked example

A worked example. You want to send a gift card to someone in Germany. You open Gift cards and read the country on each row, because the same brand redeemable in the United States is a different product and cannot be swapped for the German one. You choose the brand, then a denomination the recipient can actually use for what they intend. The screen shows the face value in euros and what you pay in USD, side by side, so there is no arithmetic to do. You pay, the code appears on the receipt, and you send them the code — treating it like cash, because until it is redeemed that is exactly what it is.

If it does not work

The code was declined. Either no live offer existed for that brand and band, or the card was redeemed before it reached you. Send support the receipt — both cases are resolvable and only one of them is ours.

You bought the wrong country. A card is redeemable where the brand says, and a card for the wrong market cannot be exchanged for the right one.

You cannot find the code. It is on the receipt in History. It does not expire out of the app.

You shared the code and it was spent. A code is a bearer instrument. Whoever holds it can redeem it, and it cannot be recalled.

Pay is blocked. The price plus fee exceeds store credit.

Where this works

Brands are listed with the country they are redeemable in — the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, South Africa and many more. Coverage for gift cards is decided per country and shown before you pay, so you find out what is possible while you are still choosing rather than after you have committed. Where it cannot be delivered today, the app says so with a reason attached.

The full picture — who it suits, what decides availability, what it costs and every question people ask — is on the Gift cards page.