A gift subscription is a special case of a group or two-party subscription. You tell QuickFill that you are entering a gift subscription by entering a 'G' in the gift/comp field of the order form. If you run a special promotion to solicit gift subscriptions, you can specify on the tracking code definition screen that all orders entered using that tracking code should be identified as gifts (click here for details on the 'Gift' field in the tracking code definition).
QuickFill uses the same procedures for billing and renewing a gift subscription as it does for other subscriptions with separate bill-to addresses. You specify on the series definition screens whether the bill (for two-party subscriptions only) or renewal notice should be sent to the donor or the donee (click here for details on the 'Send to ship-to' field in the billing series and renewal series definitions). Usually you will want to send both the bills and renewals to the donor, although you might send the last renewal effort or two to the donee in the event that the donor does not respond. For this reason you probably will use a different series for gift orders than regular two-party orders. You can specify the series to be used on the tracking code definition for the gift promotion.
Note: bills and renewal notices
QuickFill only produces detailed bills or renewals (ones that list all of the ship-to customers in a gift or group subscription) for subscriptions linked to billing/renewal series that are defined to use packages with the "Detailed" format and that are set up to send the bills or notices to the bill-to.
QuickFill uses the gift indicator for these purposes:
You can have QuickFill break out the labels for gift subscriptions into a separate group when you create issue labels.
You specify this in the 'Gift' fields of the label split table definition.
You can select—or exclude—gift subscriptions when you run the 'Promotional labels', 'Customer directory', 'Subscriptions statistics', and 'Group subscriptions' reports.
When a subscription is entered, the billing series and renewal series assigned can be different for gift and non-gift subscriptions. You specify the billing series and renewal series in the tracking code definition.
(Click here for details on the 'Renewal series for gifts' field and the 'Billing series for gifts' field in the tracking code definition.)
When a subscription is renewed, the billing series and renewal series assigned to the renewal order can be different for gift and nongift subscriptions. You specify the "next" billing series and renewal series in the renewal series definition.
(Click here for details on the 'Next renewal series for gifts' field and the 'Next billing series for gifts' field in the renewal series definition.)