{"id":145,"date":"2026-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/2026\/04\/07\/gift-cards-and-booking-for-someone-else\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:00:00","slug":"gift-cards-and-booking-for-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/2026\/04\/07\/gift-cards-and-booking-for-someone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Cards, and Booking for Someone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Booking a treatment for someone else is a lovely thing to do and surprisingly easy to get slightly wrong. A few notes from the desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading font-primary color\">Give a value, not a treatment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless you know exactly what they want, a gift card for an amount is kinder than a named session. It lets them pick the treatment, the therapist and the length, and it removes the awkwardness of swapping something you chose for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cards are valid for twelve months, can be topped up towards something longer, and can be spent on treatments, classes or anything on the shop shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading font-primary color\">If you do want to book the appointment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list iconlist iconlist-color\">\n\n<li>Leave the date open where you can: a fixed slot in somebody else&#8217;s diary is a gamble.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Tell us it is a gift so we do not send confirmation emails to the wrong person.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Let us know anything relevant about them: a preference for lighter pressure, a fragrance they dislike, an area to avoid.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading font-primary color\">On the day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They should arrive ten minutes early like anyone else, and they do not need to bring the card itself: the reference is enough, and we can find it by name if the reference has been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If they would rather come with someone, both of our treatment rooms can be booked at the same time, and the lounge is quite happy to hold a friend with a pot of tea for an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to give a treatment without guessing wrong, and why we usually suggest a value rather than a named session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33,47],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio-notes","tag-booking","tag-gifts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}