Yes, you can give personal finance software as a gift even if it is only available via download. Since you can't wrap a software download for gift giving, the trick to giving a software download is in the presentation.
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Making Software Downloads Presentable as Gifts
- Make a greeting card or an insert for a purchased greeting card and include the software download web address and the registration code.
- Download the software but do not unzip it or install it. Burn the software to a CD and make a card with the registration number.
Tips for Giving Financial Software Downloads
Some downloadable software does not require registration until the software is downloaded and installed. In this case do not download the software or install the software on your computer, but let the person you give the software to do this.Although rare, some software downloads require a name and address to complete the purchase. In this case be sure you give the name and/or address of the person you are giving the software to and not your own information.
Fun Packaging Ideas for Financial Software Downloads
Read up on some ideas for creating packaging for your gift of software.
- CD and DVD Packaging from About Desktop Publishing offers all kinds of ideas and instructions for creating your own printed software CDs and DVDs as well as sleeves for the disks.
- Also from About Desktop Publishing: Create a Greeting Card Class.
- Photoshop Greeting Card Template from About Graphics Software provides a tutorial to walk you through creating a greeting card with Photoshop, complete with a template to minimize the number of steps required.
- About Graphics Software also offers Creating a Popup Gift Box with Adobe Illustrator. A popup gift box would be a novel way to present the download web site address and registration code for downloaded software.
- About Parenting Teens has information on creating greeting cards for all occasions in Homemade Cards Crafts.
- About Family Crafts has a 4.5 x 6 inch greeting card envelope template you can use to put your card in.
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