Gift vouchers are credited by your CSE (or equivalent entity).
💡 Good to know : The regulations do not authorize the purchase, with a gift voucher, of food products or vouchers valid on food products, or fuel.
In this article, we explain how and where to spend them, depending on the type of gift vouchers you've received.
🎁 How to spend your gift vouchers?
🛍 On the Swile Gift Shop to buy a voucher from the retailer of your choice, a cinema ticket, or an entry ticket to a park or museum.
Go to your Swile account. To find out more, see: How do I buy a gift card?
💳 With your Swile card, in person or online
You can spend your gift vouchers:
- Directly in store, using your Swile card as payment. If the amount of your purchase exceeds the amount available in your Swile account, you will have to make two payments (one with your Swile card and the balance with another means of payment). You can find all eligible stores in your Swile account, on your gift certificate page (Where to spend with my Swile card, See brands).
- Online. Choose payment by credit card and enter your Swile card numbers. The amount in your basket must be less than or equal to the amount available in gift vouchers on your Swile account.
🎁 Where to pay with your gift vouchers?
The allocation and spending of gift vouchers are regulated by URSSAF. Click below on the type of vouchers you have received to find out where to spend them 💸
👩 Adult gift vouchers (Employee Christmas, Marriage/Pacs, Mother's/Father's Day, Retirement, Birth/Adoption...)
You can spend them directly with your Swile card in fashion, beauty, games, leisure, sports, cinema, travel, furnishings, DIY, culture, car & motorcycle (excluding fuel) etc. stores.
⛔️ They are not valid in stores selling food products (Amazon, Cdiscount, Carrefour, Action) or fuel.
On the Swile Gift Shop, you can convert these vouchers into vouchers for these brands, valid in non-food departments. For example, in Carrefour vouchers excluding fuel and food, Cdiscount vouchers excluding food or Amazon culture, E.Leclerc cultural spaces).
🎄 Children's Christmas gift vouchers
Gift vouchers credited for children's Christmas can be spent at retailers selling goods addressable to children under 16 (not services), such as:
- Fashion (fashion accessories, jewelry, clothing, shoes, etc.)
- Leisure and sports equipment;
- Books, records and high-tech equipment;
- Toys and leisure
- Child-friendly leisure activities (amusement parks, cinemas)
⛔️ Please note that certain types of establishment are not eligible for children's Christmas gift vouchers:
- DIY & Gardening
- Furnishing & Decoration
- Cars & motorcycles
- Food
- Travel...
📖 Back to School gift vouchers
Back-to-school gift vouchers can be spent directly with the card at retailers dedicated to these universes 👇:
- School supplies (schoolbags, stationery, bookstores, etc.)
- Children's fashion (clothing, shoes, sportswear, etc.)
- Microcomputers (computers, tablets, etc.)
Please note that you cannot use your Back to School vouchers to pay directly at general retailers or retailers that also sell food products (supermarkets and hypermarkets, marketplaces like Amazon, Cdiscount...).
🎭 Culture vouchers
You can use your card directly at retailers selling cultural products and services. Examples:
- Ticketing for shows, theater and music
- Cinema tickets
- Tickets for museums, exhibitions, historical monuments, conferences
- Books (excluding textbooks) and comics, e-books and online press
- Music and video media: audio CDs, DVDs, videos, multimedia CDs
⛔️ When a retailer also sells other types of products (such as FNAC, Carrefour, Amazon...), it is not possible to pay directly with your Swile card, as we cannot be sure that your purchase will be accepted.