Gifts (gifted vouchers) are vouchers that are bought alongside the gifting service. The price a customer pays for a gift is the voucher price + the gifting price. Here is an overview of the potential costs. Please note, the following are only estimates based on a gifting price of 99p.


Transaction fee: 1.5p higher.

  • Stripe currently charges 1.5% + 20p per transaction (check here for up-do-date pricing).

  • The transaction fee will be ~1.5p higher for a gift than for a voucher.

Gifting fee = The gifting price paid by the customer.

  • Our gifting fee is equal to the gifting price, which has been paid to you by the customer in addition to the voucher price.

  • Stripe's terminology for the gifting fee is an "application fee".

VAT on gifting: This treatment depends whether you are VAT registered or not.

  • You charge customers for the gifting service, not Steppr (we take our gifting fee from you after the customer payment to you).

  • Steppr is not currently VAT registered - we will let you know if this changes.

  • If you are VAT registered, you may be liable for VAT on the gifting payments from customers (as well as on the voucher payments).

  • VAT on gifting may be of the order 16.5p per transaction (= 99p x (1-1/1.2)) although please do not rely on this calculation.

  • We cannot offer tax or accounting advice about this. Please seek an accountant's assistance if you are unsure.