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Yiftee's community programs cost the merchant nothing per month, because its fee is charged to the gift-card buyer at checkout rather than to you; its own-brand program is a monthly subscription. Shopolo processes gift cards straight to your Stripe account with no monthly fee and a flat 1.9% platform fee per sale.
Yiftee pricing from yiftee.com/pricing, checked October 2026: the community card is $0/mo to set up and run with a $1 + 5% eDelivery fee paid by the buyer, and Merchant & Franchise Cards are $29.95/mo plus $12/mo per extra location. On Shopolo a gift card sale carries a flat 1.9% platform fee plus Stripe standard processing (2.9% + 30¢), both out of the sale. Subject to change.
With Yiftee, the buyer’s money is held by Yiftee until the card is redeemed, and then reaches you at full face value through your own card processor — Yiftee takes no cut of it, because its fee was charged to the buyer at checkout. With Shopolo, every gift card purchase is processed directly via Stripe Connect — the money goes to your connected account with no intermediate holding. You see the revenue in your Stripe dashboard immediately, with Shopolo's platform fee deducted at settlement. No third-party holds.
Yiftee’s community programmes are run by a city or chamber: one shared card, promoted locally, spendable at every participating business. That is real promotion you do not have to pay for or organise, and for a merchant on a high street it can be worth more than anything on this page. The trade-off is that the card, the programme and the customer list belong to the organiser, and the buyer pays $1 + 5% on top of the face value. A Shopolo gift card is issued by you, bought at face value with no surcharge, and the purchaser lands in your own customer list.
Yiftee’s product is gift card sales. Shopolo connects gift cards to online ordering, bookings and reservations, which are free core, and to your loyalty programme and email campaigns, which are the Plus addon — so a gift card recipient visiting for the first time can be enrolled and reached again. That is the argument for paying 1.9% rather than nothing.
If your town runs a Yiftee community card, join it — it costs you nothing per sale, the fee falls on the buyer, and you redeem at full face value, which is cheaper for you than Shopolo. On a $50 card you keep about 95 cents more with Yiftee than with us. The things you are buying for that 95 cents are that your customer is not charged a surcharge to buy your gift card, the money reaches your own Stripe at purchase instead of being held until redemption, and the card sits alongside your ordering, bookings and customer list rather than in a programme someone else runs. Below roughly $1,600 a month in gift-card volume Shopolo also costs less than Yiftee’s $29.95/mo own-brand card; above that, it does not.
The community card is — $0/month, with the $1 + 5% eDelivery fee paid by the gift-card buyer, and you redeem at full face value. Yiftee's own-brand merchant card is $29.95/month plus $12/month per extra location. Shopolo charges no monthly fee for gift cards and takes a flat 1.9% platform fee plus Stripe processing out of each sale.
Per card sold, Yiftee's community card — on a $50 card you keep about 95 cents more, because its fee falls on the buyer. Against the $29.95/month own-brand card, Shopolo costs less below roughly $1,600 a month in gift-card volume and more above it. The honest advice on this page stands: if your town runs a community card, join it.
The money reaches your own Stripe account at purchase rather than being held until redemption, the buyer pays face value with no surcharge, and the purchaser lands in your own customer list next to ordering, bookings and reservations, which are free core — with loyalty stamps and email campaigns on the Plus addon. Yiftee's product is the gift card alone.
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