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for those who get the app, please post your opinions of how well it works. the reviews at the itunes store are very mixed. it seems to get only '5' (its awesome) or '1' (it doesn't work). i realize its free. i just want to see how our reviews match theirs
Thanks for the info! I've often thought of buying a gift card each time I'm at the grocery store but haven't for the very reason that I don't want to have to carry a bucket load of cards! Good to know you can put them all on one card!
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Woo Hoo....an answer to my dilemma. I have quite a few 15.00 & 25.00 cards that I can now put on 3 for the kids spending $$$. Saves the stress of the sharpies. I'm going to look it up ASAP. . This is why I love PassPorter.... everyone looks out for their fellow Disney Lover.
Well, downloaded the app. I will be starting to pick up more cards for our trip in October, so I'll let you all know how it goes!
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Boohoo, I don't think I can get this app on the Canadian store . They do have a general gift card app, I wonder of this would work with Disney gift cards? Or just Canadian ones?
Also, I forgot to mention when you put the gift card into the app you get to name it so you could call it "Lindsay's Gift Card" or "Dining Gift Card" if you have more than one and wanted to specify them for certain things or people.
I believe the app is just called "Disney Gift Card". And the only reason I could see it getting a rating of 1 (not good) as someone mentioned above is that it doesn't show you name of the location that you used the card, only the time, date and amount (which was still good enough for me.)
Glad I could help! I actually need to call myself and get my gift cards put onto one... I feel bad for the CM that has to listen to me read the numbers of all my $10, $15 and $25 gift cards that I have, LOL.
GRRR... just wanted to update everyone... I called yesterday to merge all of my gift cards onto one since I am leaving for my trip on Monday. They told me that they no longer do that - I expressed that I had done it in the past and they said it is a relatively new policy. They said before that some locations were not equipped to handle multiple forms of payment, but now everywhere that takes gift cards can handle multiple forms of payment so they will no longer merge gift cards for you. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused anyone!
I have several disney gift cards, including many smaller denominations that would be a pain to deal with and keep track of, so I'm thinking my best bet it to charge everything to my room on my KTTW card, and then just go to the front desk the night before checkout and pay off my balance with the gift cards instead of having the balance billed to a credit card, correct? (I know that they will still need me credit card number just to allow me the charging privlidges).
I'm thinking my best bet it to charge everything to my room on my KTTW card, and then just go to the front desk the night before checkout and pay off my balance with the gift cards instead of having the balance billed to a credit card, correct? (I know that they will still need me credit card number just to allow me the charging privlidges).
This is how I've always handled it.
I do it for safety reasons -- a KTTW card can be replaced if lost, and any erroneous charges can be reversed.
If you lose a Gift Card, it can be used by anyone who finds it. It can be replaced, but you have to produce the original purchase receipt, which I find a hassle.
I use the GC app, and so far it works great. Like not having to type in the numbers every time I want to check the balance. When I use up a card, I just delete the card. Only thing I wish it would do is put up the actual picture that is on the card. (Like Starbucks does on their website for registered cards.) You can pick a photo you want associated with the card, but it's not the actual card pic. As someone said, you can assign any name you want to the card.
Too bad there is no more combining of cards! Starbucks also lets you do this online, so the capability is out there. I think some day Disney will be able to do this. (Boy, I sound like a Starbucks fan club! But I did have my first official Disney Starbucks cup of coffee yesterday when I went to DCA! But you can't use their GCs there, but you can use a Disney GC and get an AP discount.)
I was cleaning up gift cards a few years ago to help pay off a MYW package and it took forever to apply the 2nd, 3rd, 4th card. Problems with processing, the CM had to ask her supervisor how to do it, etc. So hopefully they've fixed that issue. Bottom line, I really like the app. I have it on my iPad.
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. I'm going to look it up ASAP. 
. They do have a general gift card app, I wonder of this would work with Disney gift cards? Or just Canadian ones?
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I have it on my iPad.
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