We're getting more and more requests for point or redemption stores - they don't want to allow for people to order more than the designated value or number of items. For example, just in the last week I have a two non-profits wanting to "gift" one item to their volunteers - I can do this with a coupon code and not have items priced but can't control how many items they order so I have to check each individual order. And I have a company wanting to do their annual corporate apparel program but would like to have a dollar amount budget for each person (but not have them order above this amount and pay) but would also like to have it set up to their employees as points rather than dollar values. (They'll allow up to $100 per person but would rather assign each employee 20 points to buy products and then we'd establish a number of points per item - we know it's about $5 per point but that isn't obvious to the employees.)
I have found a number of workarounds to create these stores BUT it's all very manual and can be confusing for the customers (which is the last thing you want to do when gifting items (make it too hard and frustrating for the recipient).