Revision for my suggestion from 3/22/19

Add a way to manage giftcards ingame so that trading for them would be easier. The menu could be a gold nugget in /buy similar to the bottom right of /shop that shows how much you have, and accessible with /giftcard (can’t be /gc because it’s already the gang chat command). If you click on the nugget or do /giftcard, a GUI pops up that has 3 different options.  Possible names for them could be “redeem giftcard”, “create giftcard”, and “manage giftcards”.

To add giftcards to your balance, you would click the option to redeem a giftcard, then type the code into an anvil GUI (You shouldn’t be able to redeem it with a command because someone could steal the giftcard if they forgot the /.).

To create a giftcard, you would click the option to create one, then type the value you would want to make into a giftcard into a GUI, then an anvil GUI would pop up with the code in the rename bar so that it can easily be copied. After a giftcard is created, a”giftcard book” made of the enchanted book item would appear in the creator’s inventory with the name “Giftcard ($10.00)” ($10.00 is replaced with the amount) using the color/formatting codes §a§l. The book would have the lore “Right click to view.” with the color code §7. When clicked, the book would open the anvil GUI with the code so that the player can copy it and paste it into redeem giftcard. Item rename tokens would be disabled on books to prevent scams. The player can’t redeem the giftcard just by clicking on it because of duping and creating multiple code books.

Manage giftcards would be used to remove giftcards if they were the wrong amount, if accidentally said in chat, or someone wanted to know who claimed which giftcards. When clicked, a GUI would pop up with 2 options that say “active giftcards” and “claimed giftcards”. The active giftcards section shows all the unclaimed giftcards they created. In the GUI, each giftcard would show the code, value and date created. When a giftcard is clicked, another GUI would pop up that shows the card in the middle. On the left, there would be a button to copy the code again, which would open the anvil GUI and create a “giftcard book”. On the right, there would be a button to delete the giftcard, which would make the code invalid and put the giftcard value back into the creator’s balance. Claimed giftcards says the code, the player it was claimed by, and the date claimed. When clicked, it gets deleted from claimed giftcards list as if it was “read”.

All the items in /buy (except for giftcards) would be purchasable ingame using giftcard balance (with a confirmation GUI of course).

This system could be better than the current one because with the system currently, giftcards can’t be split, and with this system the code doesn’t have to be kept in some place you have to remember it, because you would always have the money in your account until you spend or trade it. If a trading system gets added back, giftcards can be traded directly with the “giftcard books” making scamming even harder.