Give Them a Day on the Field

Editorial by Courtny Cotten | Field Owner

The question usually finds me in November, though it shows up in other months too. Someone wants to give a person they care about a day out here, and they do not want to be the one who picks the Saturday. A ticket is a specific morning, with a gate time and a chrono line, and the person they have in mind is rarely that tidy. Sometimes the birthday lands in a month when the calendar is thin. Sometimes the crew cannot settle on a weekend. Sometimes it is a kid who wants paintball and has not quite said so out loud, and the gift is really just permission to ask.

That is why we made a gift card.

It lives on the site. You pick $25, $50, $100, or $250, check out, and the code arrives in your email. There is nothing to wait on in the mail. You can forward that email, or pull the code up on your phone when you hand the day over, whichever feels more like the way you actually give things.

When they are ready, they spend it the way they would spend money at our checkout. Private parties and open play take the code when you book. Event tickets, and anything else in the store, take it there. One code per checkout. If the day costs less than the card, what is left stays on it for next time. If the day costs more, you pay the difference. The balance does not expire.

I want to be plain about what you are buying. The card does not hold a spot on its own. You still book the day, or buy the ticket, and enter the code when you check out. Gift cards are digital and non-refundable, and the balance stays on the code until it is used. That is the whole policy, and I would rather say it here than bury it in a footer.

If you have been looking for a way to put someone on this field without guessing their Saturday, this is how I would do it. You will also see it on the homepage, just under the featured event.

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