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# Using Gift Cards

Gift card operations are performed when the customer wants to use a gift card or when it is the required method of payment.

### Identifying a gift card payment <a href="#identifying-a-gift-card-payment" id="identifying-a-gift-card-payment"></a>

Upon receipt of the payment completed event, to identify a gift card payment, we need to check Payment.getPaymentType() == Payment.PaymentType.STORED\_VALUE and Payment.getStoredValueCardInformation().getCardType() == CardType.GIFT\_CARD.

### Performing other gift card actions <a href="#performing-other-gift-card-actions" id="performing-other-gift-card-actions"></a>

To perform gift card specific operations, use [TransactionManager.activateStoredValueCard(payment)](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/transactionmanager#activatestoredvaluecard-payment) [TransactionManager.loadStoredValueCard(payment)](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/transactionmanager#loadstoredvaluecard-payment), [TransactionManager.unloadStoredValueCard(payment) ](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/transactionmanager#unloadstoredvaluecard-payment)and [TransactionManager.getStoredValueCardBalance(cardinformation)](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/transactionmanager#getstoredvaluecardbalance-storedvaluecardinformation)

### Starting a gift card only payment <a href="#starting-a-gift-card-only-payment" id="starting-a-gift-card-only-payment"></a>

To require a gift card to be used, use [Payment.setRequestedPaymentType](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/payment#setrequestedpaymenttype-paymenttype)([PaymentType.STORED\_VALUE](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/paymenttype)), then set a [StoredValueCardInformation](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/storedvaluecardinformation) with [CardType](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/cardtype) as [CardType.GIFT\_CARD ](https://docs.verifone.com/psdk-api-latest/android-java/index/cardtype)on the payment object, before sending it for start payment.

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