Gift Card creation uses same value for initial_value & balance

[dmequus]

Hi,

I can see that this may not be a 'normal' issue as creating a gift card would in most cases logically want the two values to match. At the moment the CreateAsync is ignoring anything you put in the balance field an populating both fields from the initial_value.

I'm actually importing cards into shopify from a legacy system so I need to be able to update the two values independently.

Any chance this can be changed?

If not in the short term, I'll either just pull in the outstanding value or look at importing with GraphQL.

Thanks.

[dmequus]

Reading a bit more, this may just be a Shopify 'way things are done'.

Looking at the graphQL docs, they only show an initial_value field for create, no balance field at all, and then it looks like you need to do a transaction adjustment to reduce the balance if needed.

Be nice to do it in one step, but if this is the way, it's the way.