How to test gift card transactions in developer store

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We’re building a tool that can pull transactions from Shopify and make accounting calculations for them. We’re working on gift card logic and seemingly getting blocked from making test transactions in a development store, using the Bogus gateway, that involve gift cards. This seems to be an intended limitation - source.

We could also just create the order via the admin interface, but I can’t seem to apply a gift card that way.

How can we simulate a transaction with a gift card in a development store?

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Hi Allenepc

So just to confirm - you need to create demo orders which had a gift card/discount code applied, so you can test that your app will successfully interpret and calculate info on orders which have a gift card transaction on them?

If you run the draftOrderCreate mutation on the dev store and use the appliedDiscount field, you should be able to create an order that has a discount applied to it:

mutation CreateDraftOrderWithDiscount {
  draftOrderCreate(input: {
    lineItems: [
      {
        title: "Test Product",
        originalUnitPrice: "50.00",
        quantity: 1
      }
    ],
    appliedDiscount: {
      value: 10.0, # Discount value
      valueType: FIXED_AMOUNT, # Type of discount: FIXED_AMOUNT or PERCENTAGE
      description: "Test Discount"
    },
    tags: ["TestOrder"], # Add a tag to identify it as a test order
    note: "This is a simulated test order with a discount"
  }) {
    draftOrder {
      id
      totalPriceSet {
        shopMoney {
          amount
          currencyCode
        }
      }
      appliedDiscount {
        value
        valueType
        description
      }
    }
    userErrors {
      field
      message
    }
  }
}
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Thanks for the suggestion. We’re specifically trying to test gift cards though, because it would create bookkeeping entries different from order where a discount was applied. Is there any way to simulate a gift card being applied to an order?