What does issueGiftCard do?

Issue ONE gift card directly, with no order behind it: the counter sale. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

How do I use issueGiftCard from Claude or ChatGPT?

Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "sell a $50 gift card", and it calls issueGiftCard.

Is issueGiftCard safe to let an AI call?

issueGiftCard changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Commerce

`issueGiftCard`

Issue Gift Card

Issue ONE gift card directly, with no order behind it: the counter sale.

write

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "sell a $50 gift card", and it calls issueGiftCard.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "amountMinor": 1,
    "appId": "<appId>",
    "issuanceKey": "<issuanceKey>"
  },
  "name": "issueGiftCard"
}

Arguments

amountMinorintegerrequiredFace value in minor units (cents), e.g. 5000 = $50.00. Capped at 1000000 ($10,000).
appIdstringrequiredThe Studio app ID whose shop is selling.
issuanceKeystringrequiredYour idempotency key for THIS sale. Reuse it to retry safely; use a new one for a new card.
recipientEmailstringoptionalEmail the code to this address. Omit for an in-store sale; the code comes back in this response instead.

Returns

Idempotent per issuanceKey: reuse the SAME key when retrying one sale (a replay returns the card with no code), and a NEW key for a genuinely new sale.

Declared limits

amountMinor: greater than 0
amountMinor: maximum 9007199254740991

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

sell a $50 gift card
issue a gift card for this customer
make a gift card for Sam

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

Questions

What does issueGiftCard do?
Issue ONE gift card directly, with no order behind it: the counter sale. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.
How do I use issueGiftCard from Claude or ChatGPT?
Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "sell a $50 gift card", and it calls issueGiftCard.
Is issueGiftCard safe to let an AI call?
issueGiftCard changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.