There are times when just a gift link to the untie page (redemption page with card and product selection) will suffice, and no email is needed. We'll walk through the creation of a gift link that can be embedded in a customer service email.

curl -i https://api.loopandtie.com/v1/teams/sandbox/gifts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer [[app:key]]" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X POST \
-d '{"gift":
        {
          "name": "Ziggi",
          "collection": "$25",
          "message": "Better than Bob",
          "from": "Peter Tosh",
          "delivery_method": "link"
        }
     }'

In the call above, notice that there is neither an email attribute nor a scheduled_at attribute. Instead, we set delivery_method to link and get the JSON payload below, that includes untie-url

{
    "data": {
        "id": "GBB8C23A5511A",
        "type": "gifts",
        "attributes": {
          	"external-id": "GBB8C23A5511A",
            "team": "sandbox",
            "sender-name": "Dimitri Roche",
            "untie-url": "http://www.loopandtie.com/untie/JjUxxxxxxx",
            "delivery-method": "link",
            "email": null,
            "scheduled-at": null,
            "stage": "scheduled",
            "last-event-at": "2015-11-13T20:39:45.911Z",
          	"subject":"Peter Sent You A Gift!",
            "message": "Better than Bob",
            "from": "Peter Tosh",
            "thank-you-note": null,
            "selected-product": null,
            "variant": null,
            "redemption-email": null,
            "address": null,
            "events": [
                {
                    "stage": "scheduled",
                    "message": null,
                    "created-at": "2015-11-13T20:39:45.917Z"
                }
            ]
        },
        "relationships": {
            "sender": {
                "data": {
                    "id": "1",
                    "type": "users"
                }
            },
            "collection": {
                "data": {
                    "id": "4",
                    "type": "collections"
                }
            },
            "logo": {
                "data": {
                    "id": "126",
                    "type": "logos"
                }
            },
            "design": {
                "data": {
                    "id": "standard-gift-of-choice-v2",
                    "type": "designs"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "included": [
        {
            "id": "1",
            "type": "users",
            "attributes": {
                "name": "Dimitri Roche",
                "email": "dimroc@loopandtie.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4",
            "type": "collections",
            "attributes": {
                "name": "$25",
                "global": true,
                "price": "25.00"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "126",
            "type": "logos",
            "attributes": {
                "name": "Loop & Tie",
                "global": true,
                "image-url": "https://d2ncrfzc0pt6uh.cloudfront.net/uploads/logos/2387/1531343620/standard.png?1531343620"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "standard-gift-of-choice-v2",
            "type": "designs",
            "attributes": {
                "name": "Standard Gift Of Choice v2",
                "global": true,
                "has-logo": true,
                "image-url": "https://d2ncrfzc0pt6uh.cloudfront.net/uploads/designs/8/1441980212/uploads/standard.jpg?1441980212",
                "thumbnail-url": "https://d2ncrfzc0pt6uh.cloudfront.net/uploads/designs/8/1441980212/uploads/thumbnail.jpg?1441980212"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Now that we have an untie_url ("https://www.loopandtie.com/untie/JjUxxxxxxx"), we can visit it directly or just add it as a hyperlink in an email.