Gift Vouchers for Restaurants

Sell restaurant gift vouchers online in 1 day. No setup fees, no monthly costs – just 5% commission when you make sales.

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Why gift vouchers work perfectly for restaurant businesses?

Restaurant gift vouchers punch well above their weight: they are essentially prepaid reservations. The guest walks in already knowing you, often brings a plus-one who doesn't have a voucher (extra revenue), and has read your menu in advance so orders flow faster. With KORTA you can sell vouchers for specific experiences – a tasting menu, a chef's table, a bottle of wine for two – or simply for a monetary amount the guest spends on whatever they choose.

Easy to sell vouchers for dinner, lunch, or breakfast packages
Attract new guests through gift vouchers
Automatic voucher generation and email delivery
Increase revenue during holiday seasons

Perfect solution for restaurants

Corporate gifting alone makes restaurant vouchers a category worth claiming. A local company with 30 employees buying €50 vouchers for the team's Christmas gift is a €1,500 order in a single transaction – and almost all of those recipients will bring a partner, doubling the table count. KORTA handles the bulk purchase and emails each recipient their own uniquely numbered voucher – you issue the VAT invoice yourself, the way you always have for business orders. On top of corporate orders, personal gifting around birthdays, anniversaries, and Valentine's Day keeps the flow steady all year.

How to start selling restaurant gift vouchers online

A restaurant gift voucher program is not a nice-to-have – it is one of the highest-margin revenue streams available to an independent venue. Here is the short, practical version of how to set one up that actually sells.

1. Build three voucher types, not ten. Too many options kill conversion. Start with: a flexible monetary voucher (€50, €100, €150), a "dinner for two" experience at a fixed price point, and a tasting-menu or chef's table voucher for the higher-ticket buyer. That is enough to cover the birthday giver, the romantic partner, and the corporate buyer.

2. Set redemption rules before you launch. Decide the validity period and the key conditions you want printed on each voucher, so the guest doesn't arrive with false expectations and the floor staff don't have to negotiate at the door.

3. Treat corporate gifting as its own channel. Companies in your area are actively looking for a place to send their end-of-year gifts. Add a simple line to your voucher page ("Buying 10+ vouchers for the team? Send us one order and we'll send them all out at once") and contact a few local HR teams in November. One or two corporate orders can outweigh a full week of à-la-carte sales.

4. Staff training is the easy part. Waiters verify a KORTA voucher by scanning the QR code with their phone or typing the code into the admin panel – no new hardware, no manual. If the meal costs less than the voucher value, the balance stays on the voucher for the guest's next visit, which brings them back.

Why restaurants are building their own voucher channels

Gift vouchers were always a restaurant category – the paper certificate at the host stand has been around for decades. What changed is how people buy them. Gift-givers today start on a phone, usually late at night, and decide in 2–3 minutes whether to buy. If your restaurant's site doesn't sell vouchers at that moment, they move on to the next result.

Some restaurants ended up on aggregator platforms to solve this, but the economics don't work for most venues. Marketplace commissions often run 15–25%, the restaurant loses the customer's contact details, and the platform uses its own branding instead of yours. For the value of a chef's table experience, that's a meaningful cut – and the returning customer isn't necessarily returning to you.

Running vouchers through your own site is simply better math. KORTA charges 5% on online sales and nothing on vouchers you create manually in-house. You keep your guest list, your branding, and your reservation flow. Because KORTA is a no-code plugin, you can launch the whole flow on your own site without waiting on a developer – and our team is on standby to help set it up for free if you'd rather skip that step.

Simple as 1-2-3

1. You're growing your business

You're successfully running a restaurant or cafe and want to offer customers the option to purchase gift vouchers.

2. You reach out to KORTA

3. You sell products and services

Customers purchase gift vouchers online, while you conveniently track sales and await new guests.

Simple, Risk-Free Pricing

per checkout transaction

✓No monthly fees
✓No setup costs
✓Only pay when you earn
✓Free installation in 1 day

Example: €1,000 in restaurant voucher sales = €50 commission

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, you can specify restrictions in the voucher terms (e.g., not valid on Valentine's Day or New Year's Eve). This helps manage traffic during peak times when tables are already full.

The waiter doesn't need any special equipment. The voucher can be scanned simply with a phone (via QR code) or by entering its number into the system. Verification takes just a few seconds at the table or bar.

Perfectly. Restaurants often use KORTA to sell tickets for specific events or tastings. This ensures advance revenue and reduces "no-show" risk since the service is already paid for.

KORTA has no setup fees, no monthly fees, and no per-voucher charges for vouchers you create by hand for walk-in or phone orders. The only cost is a 5% success fee on vouchers sold through your online checkout. Sell €2,000 in online vouchers this month and you pay €100; sell none and you pay nothing. For most restaurants that makes it effectively free to run until the vouchers actually generate revenue.

Yes, if you want them to. Each voucher has its own terms field where you can allow or restrict specific use cases – dine-in only, takeaway allowed, no alcohol, no Valentine's Day, whatever you decide. The terms appear both on the voucher PDF and at checkout, so the buyer sees them before they pay.

Yes, and this is one of the most profitable use cases for restaurant vouchers. A company can place a single bulk order for any number of vouchers, and each recipient gets their own uniquely numbered voucher by email. You then issue the VAT invoice to the buyer the same way you would for any other business order. Many restaurants land corporate orders of 20–50 vouchers at once this way, especially in November and December.

Attract new guests to your restaurant

Increase visitor numbers with convenient gift vouchers.

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