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The perfect gift,
perfectly personalized.

Send anyone a digital gift card — from hundreds of brands — with a personal message, video, or photo attached. From a $5 coffee to a $500 occasion. No plastic. No shipping. Delivered in seconds.

500+
National brands
2
Issued U.S. patents
$0
Hardware for merchants
1 mi
GEO fence notification radius
Available at hundreds of brands — from everyday favourites to special occasion splurges
How it works

From thought to delivered in under a minute.

Choose the occasion. Pick the brand. Add a personal touch. Send. It really is that simple.

Choose the occasion

Start with the moment, not the brand.

Every gift starts with intent — a birthday, an anniversary, a "thinking of you." DigitalGift organises the experience around the moment you want to celebrate, not around browsing a catalogue.

Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, holidays
Work milestones, employee recognition, incentives
Micro-gifts — just because, any time, any amount
Charitable donations with a personal message
Select occasion
Birthday
Anniversary
Graduation
Work milestone
Just because
Donate
Pick the perfect gift

Hundreds of brands. One app.

Browse national brands and local businesses across dining, travel, retail, and entertainment. You know what they love — we have the card for it. Any denomination from $5 to $500+.

National brands: Uber, Saks, AMC, American Airlines, and hundreds more
Local businesses via the DigitalGift Buy Local program
Any denomination — from $5 micro-gifts to $500+
Recommended brands based on the occasion you selected
Pick a brand
Saks Fifth Avenue
Fashion & luxury
Uber
Transport
AMC Theatres
Entertainment
Zappos
Footwear & apparel
Make it personal

The message is the gift.

Attach a personal message, video, or photo that travels with the gift. The recipient gets the thought, not just the transaction. This is what makes DigitalGift different from every other gift card.

Write a personal message — as long as you want
Record or upload a personal video
Attach a photo — a memory, a celebration, a selfie
Message travels with the gift — not sent separately
Personalise your gift
To: Alex (from Jamie)
"Happy birthday! Treat yourself to something you'd never buy yourself — you deserve it."
Add video
Add photo
Text added
Amount:
Deliver instantly

No address. No shipping. No waiting.

Send directly from your phone via text, email, or any messaging app. Arrives in seconds. The recipient doesn't need the app to receive it. Schedule ahead for birthdays and milestones.

Delivered via SMS, email, or any messaging platform
No account required for the recipient to open
Schedule ahead for birthdays and milestones
Delivered in seconds — gift and message together
Delivery status
Gift created
$50 · Saks Fifth Avenue · message attached
Sent to Alex
via SMS · delivered 2 seconds ago
Message opened
Alex viewed the gift and message
Awaiting redemption
Recipient can redeem any time
Redeem anywhere

In the app, online, or in-store.

Recipients redeem at their convenience — in the app, at the merchant website, or via barcode in-store. The digital wallet tracks partial redemptions, sends reload alerts, and maintains balance across sessions.

Redeem in-app, online, or via barcode in-store
Partial redemptions tracked — balance persists
Reload alerts when balance is low
Full redemption history maintained
Gift wallet
Saks Fifth Avenue
Ready to redeem
$50.00
From Jamie · Birthday · Received today
Use cases

Built for every kind of moment.

Whether you're sending a $5 thank-you or a $500 celebration, DigitalGift makes it feel personal every time.

Personal gifting

Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays — with a personal message attached to every transaction.

Small business

Local merchants offer digital gift cards as easily as the national brands. No plastic, no hardware.

Employee incentives

Reward employees and partners with personalised digital value — tracked and attributed.

Micro-gifting

Send $5 for a coffee, a beer, or a favourite lunch. The gesture matters, not the amount.

Graduations

Be the hero of the day. Send them what they actually want — a DigitalGift they'll use.

Social responsibility

Tax-deductible charitable donation with a personal message — instantly delivered.

For small businesses

Gift cards for local businesses.
Finally easy.

The DigitalGift Buy Local program lets any local business — restaurant, salon, boutique, gym — offer digital gift cards through the app in minutes. Zero hardware. Zero plastic. Zero upfront cost.

Up and running in minutes
Sign up online, set your denominations, and your business appears in the DigitalGift app immediately. No POS integration. No hardware. No waiting.
Marketing that actually works
A DigitalGift card sends a motivated customer directly to your door. More effective than pay-per-click. Cheaper than Groupon. Without the discount trap.
Your customers become your promoters
When someone sends a DigitalGift for your business, the message travels with the card. Your brand gets a personal endorsement, not just a transaction.
No plastic. No waste.
Americans buy 2 billion gift cards a year. Once redeemed, 75 million pounds of PVC plastic enters the waste stream. DigitalGift eliminates all of it.
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Setup time
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Compared to physical gift card programs, Groupon, and pay-per-click.

For enterprise merchants & retailers

Replace plastic racks with
a 3×3 revenue engine.

For grocery chains, convenience stores, travel centers, and large retailers: the DigitalGift Station eliminates physical gift card infrastructure entirely — freeing floor space, eliminating plastic waste, and opening a new digital revenue stream in a footprint smaller than a coffee maker. And when a gift card holder comes within a mile of your store — whether they're driving by or heading your way — the DigitalGift app notifies them automatically that they have a gift card ready to use. A passive card in a wallet becomes an active reason to stop.

Grocery & supermarket chains
A single DigitalGift Station could increase a grocery chain's effective selling space by hundreds of thousands of square feet across locations — while eliminating the category management burden of a physical gift card wall.
Convenience & travel centers
A DigitalGift Station gives a convenience store chain a whole new revenue stream — potentially millions annually — in a 3×3 footprint with no restocking, no shrinkage, and no expired inventory.
Large retailers & department stores
Reclaim linear feet of sales floor currently occupied by plastic gift card racks. Replace with a digital endpoint that carries more brands, requires no replenishment, and generates real-time attribution data on every transaction.
Real-time attribution & analytics
Every DigitalGift transaction generates identity-linked behavioral data — who bought, who received, what occasion, what brand — maintained through redemption. Insight no physical card program can match.
GEO fence proximity notifications — within 1 mile
When a gift card holder comes within one mile of your store — driving by, passing through, or heading in — the DigitalGift app sends an automatic notification that they have a gift card ready to use. No other gift card program turns a card in a wallet into an impulse visit. This one does.
DigitalGift Station
Footprint
3 × 3 ft
replaces full gift card wall
Brands available
500+
no restocking required
Plastic eliminated
100%
fully digital delivery
GEO fence radius
1 mile
drives impulse visits
Station advantages vs. physical racks
No inventory management or restocking
No shrinkage or expired card write-offs
Zero plastic waste — fully sustainable
Reclaims hundreds of sq ft per location
Transaction-level attribution data
GEO fence alerts — notifies card holders within 1 mile
GEO fence active · card holders notified within 1 mile — driving by or heading in
Platform infrastructure — for platform developers

The infrastructure
behind the moment.

DigitalGift was built to solve a hard problem — how do you attach identity, context, and attribution to a digital value transfer, and keep all of that intact from initiation through redemption, across any wallet, merchant, or interaction surface? The answer became a deployed system. Then it became two issued U.S. patents. The gifting experience is proof that it works.

Why platform companies care —
from a business outcome perspective.

Every major digital platform is facing the same challenge: how do you make value transfer feel personal, contextual, and memorable while generating the engagement, loyalty, and behavioral insight that drive long-term platform growth?

DigitalGift was built to solve that problem. What began as a digital gifting platform evolved into a live, operating system for identity-linked value transfer, attribution, contextual messaging, wallet persistence, and participant continuity across interactions.

The result is not simply a way to send value. It is a framework for turning transactions into relationships, interactions into engagement, and engagement into behavioral insight.

Increase engagement and time-on-platform

When value transfer is personal — when a message, a moment, and a gift arrive together — recipients engage more deeply and return more often. Platforms that make value feel human retain users at higher rates than those that move money alone.

Turn one-time transactions into recurring behavior

Most digital value transfers happen once and disappear. Wallet persistence and intelligent reminders create opportunities for repeat engagement, repeat visits, and stronger user retention. Value becomes an ongoing relationship rather than a completed transaction.

Generate behavioral data that compounds over time

Every identity-linked value interaction creates a signal: who initiated it, who received it, why it occurred, and what happened afterward. Over time, these interactions create a growing attribution layer that provides insight far beyond the transaction itself.

Monetize social and creator relationships

Creator platforms, social networks, messaging environments, and community ecosystems all share a common asset: relationships. Identity-linked value transfer creates a mechanism for those relationships to become meaningful economic interactions while preserving context, attribution, and continuity.

Proven through real-world deployment

DigitalGift is not a concept, prototype, or future roadmap. It is a deployed platform operating across hundreds of national brands and thousands of merchants.

Every gift sent, redeemed, stored, reloaded, or shared represents a real-world demonstration of the system operating at scale.

The market moment

Peer-to-peer payments, creator monetization, social commerce, loyalty programs, messaging, and digital gifting are increasingly converging.

As platforms continue to embed financial functionality into everyday interactions, the importance of attribution, continuity, engagement, and relationship-aware value transfer continues to grow.

The companies that understand how value, identity, and interaction history work together will be best positioned to create the next generation of digital experiences.

Identity & attribution

Every value transfer is initiated with identity context — who sent it, to whom, for what occasion, through which surface. That context is preserved across the entire interaction lifecycle, not discarded at transaction completion.

Participant-state continuity

Participant state — behavioral data, interaction history, engagement signals — accumulates across sessions. The system maintains relational continuity between sender, recipient, merchant, and interaction, independent of execution venue.

Wallet persistence & proximity

The digital wallet isn't a static store of value. It's an active layer — partial redemptions tracked, reload alerts triggered, GEO fence notifications fired when the card holder enters a one-mile radius of the merchant. Value becomes behavior.

500+
Brands on the execution layer
2
Issued U.S. patents
Live
In production today
3
Layer architecture
System architecture — how the layers connect
Orchestration
U.S. Patent 9,830,627
Identity initiation · contextual messaging attached to transaction · attribution origin · routing context
Identity initiation Contextual messaging Attribution origin
Persistence & attribution
Continuity surface
User identity graph · interaction records · behavioral data · engagement analytics · cross-party activity
Participant state Cross-session continuity Behavioral data
Execution
U.S. Patent 11,941,606
Digital wallet persistence · redemption continuity · reload alerts · GEO fence proximity · alternative rails
Wallet persistence Redemption continuity GEO fence Alternative rails
Messaging-embedded commerce
As messaging platforms absorb financial functionality, the interaction layer needs to attach identity and context to value transfers at initiation — not infer them at redemption. This is what the orchestration layer does.
Creator monetization
Tipping, digital goods, live-stream gifting, fan subscriptions — all require identity-linked value with attribution maintained through the creator-fan interaction. The persistence layer handles this independent of execution venue.
Peer-to-peer value transfer
P2P systems that operate without attribution continuity lose relational context at the transaction boundary. The DigitalGift architecture maintains that context — sender, recipient, occasion, behavioral state — across the full interaction lifecycle.
AI & agentic commerce
Agentic commerce systems that initiate value transfers on behalf of users require persistent participant state and attribution continuity across autonomous interactions. The persistence layer provides exactly this substrate.
Digital wallet infrastructure
The execution layer demonstrates how a wallet can move beyond transaction processing into active participant engagement — reload alerts, GEO fence proximity notifications, behavioral state accumulation across every interaction.
Merchant & retail ecosystems
Every brand on the DigitalGift platform generates identity-linked transaction data maintained through redemption. This is the attribution and behavioral insight layer that makes the gifting experience commercially valuable beyond the transaction itself.
Where identity becomes continuous, messaging, content, and creator surfaces absorb financial functionality. Persistent attribution and participant continuity become embedded orchestration functions across every digital interaction system.
From the platform architecture thesis · The aPocket Company LLC

Exploring value transfer, engagement, loyalty, creator monetization, or platform-level gifting initiatives? We’d be happy to discuss implementation approaches, partnership opportunities, and integration models.

Reach out: info@apocket.com Download architecture overview
Social responsibility

Save the gift.
Save the fish.

Americans buy 2 billion gift cards a year — the most requested gift every year from 2006 to 2022. Once redeemed, more than 75 million pounds of PVC plastic from those cards enters the waste stream. By the year 2050, plastic in our oceans will outweigh the fish in them.

Every DigitalGift is a gift card that never becomes plastic waste. Download the app and pat yourself on the back — you just took a step to save the fish.

DigitalGift is also a proud partner of USA for UNHCR. Donate to the UN Refugee Agency directly through the app — with a personal video, text, or photo message of support attached.

2B
Gift cards purchased by Americans annually
75M lbs
PVC plastic entering waste stream each year
0
Plastic produced by every DigitalGift card sent
Frequently asked questions

Questions about DigitalGift

Everything you need to know about our patented identity-linked infrastructure and digital gifting platform.

DigitalGift holds two issued U.S. patents. U.S. Patent 9,830,627 (Customized Electronic Gift Product) covers the orchestration layer: identity initiation, contextual messaging attached to the transaction, and attribution origin and routing context. U.S. Patent 11,941,606 (Digital Wallet and Redemption System) covers the execution layer: digital wallet persistence, redemption continuity, reload alerts, behavioral state tracking, and alternative payment rails.

Identity-linked value infrastructure is a persistent relational continuity layer that maintains attribution and participant state across digital value interactions, independent of the specific wallet, merchant, or platform where execution occurs. As social platforms absorb financial functionality, they require exactly this: an orchestration layer that attaches identity and context to value transfers at initiation, and a persistence layer that preserves attribution and behavioral state through redemption.

X Money is building peer-to-peer wallet persistence and social payment identity. TikTok Shop is scaling creator monetization and in-app gifting with embedded payment attribution. Meta is building stablecoin payment infrastructure across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. Block's Cash App is expanding into teen social networks and neighborhood commerce. PayPal is building digital wallet identity persistence for agentic commerce. Stripe is building economic infrastructure and digital wallet systems.

DigitalGift operates a three-layer identity-linked value infrastructure. Layer 1 is the Orchestration Layer (U.S. Patent 9,830,627): identity initiation, contextual messaging attached to transaction, attribution origin and routing context. Layer 2 is the Persistence and Attribution Layer: the controlling system boundary that maintains the user identity graph and cross-session interaction records. Layer 3 is the Execution Layer (U.S. Patent 11,941,606): digital wallet persistence, redemption continuity, reload alerts, and behavioral state.

Yes. DigitalGift's infrastructure is live and in production across 500+ national brands including Uber, Saks Fifth Avenue, AMC Theatres, American Airlines, Bloomingdale's, Zappos, Regal, Papa John's, Cabela's, AutoZone, Burlington, Victoria's Secret, Amtrak, and Bonefish Grill. The consumer app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The identity-persistence and attribution layers operate at scale with every transaction.

Standard digital wallets are execution venues — they store and process transactions. DigitalGift's patented wallet system (U.S. Patent 11,941,606) maintains wallet persistence as part of a continuity layer: partial redemptions are tracked with balance persisted across sessions, reload alerts trigger at thresholds, behavioral state accumulates across interactions, and every redemption event is attribution-linked back to the original sender, occasion, and orchestration context.

Platform BD, strategy, legal, and IP counsel can request a briefing via the For Platforms and Partners section at digitalgift.com/#partners. The briefing covers the three-layer platform architecture, both issued patent claims, the persistence and attribution continuity framework, and platform relevance. DigitalGift is prepared to share a detailed architecture overview and patent summary upon request.

The DigitalGift Station is a 3x3 foot digital terminal that replaces physical gift card racks in grocery chains, convenience stores, travel centers, and large retailers. It carries 500+ brands with no restocking, no shrinkage, no expired inventory, and zero plastic waste. Every station transaction is identity-linked and attribution-tracked through redemption, giving merchants real-time behavioral data that no physical gift card program can provide.

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The experience that proves
the platform works.

The DigitalGift app is where the platform lives for consumers and merchants. It is also the proof of deployment that demonstrates the identity, attribution, and continuity architecture at work in the real world — across 500+ brands, in production today.

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Gift received · Saks Fifth Avenue
$50.00
From Jamie · Birthday
"Happy birthday! Treat yourself to something you'd never buy yourself."
Identity linked · Attribution maintained · Persistent across sessions