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# Activate a gift card

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Create a special tender and pass the `loadType` **activate** to activate a gift card. See [Start gift card transactions - C library](/point-of-sale/classic-library-deprecation/classic-library-integrations/c-library-integration/extras-c-library/start-gift-card-transactions-c-library) for more information. 

The activate and load values can be piped to chain the tasks by passing "**activate|load**".