A new web site called LocalGiftCards.com enables customers to support small businesses when purchasing gift cards. "Consumers should be able to shop locally when they are buying gift cards online, and now they can," said Sarah Miller, Marketing Director at LocalGiftCards.com. "We're connecting small businesses with their biggest fans."

, a year-round, golf entertainment and training facility located in Saratoga Springs, New York. \\\\"The customer demand for e-gift cards was always there, and now we're equipped to meet it. Since we started selling gift cards online, sixty-three percent of our online sales are for e-gift cards -- that's twenty-five percent of our total gift card sales -- those are sales we would have missed without LocalGiftCards.com."

The web site is still quite new so you may not find Main Street merchants from your town on LocalGiftCards.com yet, but the company is adding new merchants rapidly. A much more extensive selection of merchants is expected by the time the holiday season rolls around. Customers who want to \\\\"buy local\\\\" can make requests for merchants that they would like to see on the web site through the company's Facebook page at facebook.com/LocalGiftCards.

About LocalGiftCards.com
LocalGiftCards.com was created to help small businesses enter the online gift card market and provide consumers with a convenient way to purchase gift cards online while supporting support local businesses. LocalGiftCards.com provides small merchants with the same or better technology than what the big box and national chains stores are using. The web site is owned and operated by Smart Transaction Systems, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. Since its founding in 1998, Smart Transaction Systems has provided thousands of small businesses with a variety of advanced technologies that would normally require a large IT investment. To learn more about Smart Transaction Systems, visit SmartTransactions.com or call 888-494-9760.