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TCN Pub & Bar Gift Cards

TCN Pub & Bar gift cards are merchant category restricted gift cards produced by The Card Network (TCN).

Summary

You can:

  • Use TCN Pub & Bar gift cards at almost any drinking or eating place excluding fast food
  • Convert your physical gift card into a digital gift card that can be added to your mobile wallet

You cannot:

  • Use TCN Pub & Bar gift cards at fast food restaurants

Supported merchant categories

TCN Pub & Bar gift cards are not just limited to use at specific businesses; you can use them at any eating or drinking place that uses one of the following merchant category codes (MCCs):

  • 5812: Eating Places, Restaurants
  • 5813: Bars, Cocktail Lounges, Discotheques, Nightclubs, and Taverns: Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)
  • 7997: Clubs: Country Clubs, Membership (Athletic, Recreation, Sports), Private Golf Courses

Unofficially, the TCN Pub & Bar gift card supported ‘5921: Package Stores, Beer, Wine, and Liquor’ (e.g. BWS, Liquorland etc) but as of April 2025 this appears to have stopped working.

Note that the MCC ‘5814: Fast Food Restaurants’ is not supported so you won’t be able to use the Pub & Bar gift card at places like McDonald’s.

How to use TCN Pub & Bar gift cards

You can use a physical TCN Pub & Bar gift card simply by swiping it at a payment terminal, selecting Savings and then entering your card’s four digit PIN. You don’t have to ask the restaurant or drinking place if they accept your gift card because it should just work.

However, some payment readers (e.g. Square) won’t accept physical TCN Pub & Bar cards because they don’t have a chip. That’s why you should convert your physical card into a digital one via the Choice.Gift website (if it won’t convert, register your card and try again).

Digital TCN Pub & Bar gift cards are more convenient as you can track your balance in the TCN app, add your cards to a mobile wallet (e.g. Apple Pay, Google Pay) and reveal the card number, expiry and CVV for online purchases.

To use a digital TCN Pub & Bar gift card for an in-person transaction, you can simply add it to your mobile wallet and then tap your phone to pay like you would with any other credit or debit card.

If you don’t have enough money left on the gift card to cover your purchase, you’ll have to ask if you can pay $X.XX on one card and the remainder on another. A lot of restaurants and drinking places will be happy to oblige but some may not allow it.

You can also use the digital TCN Pub & Bar card online by either entering the card number, expiry and CVV in the credit/debit card field or by paying with Apple Pay or Google Pay if they’re supported. However, split card payments are rarely possible for online purchases.

Denominations

The physical version of the Pub & Bar gift card has been seen for sale in $50 and $100 denominations only. The digital version, on the other hand, can be loaded with as little as $5 or as much as $500 at the time of purchase.

Promotions

TCN Pub & Bar gift cards are regularly included in promotions. Approximately every month or two there are 20x points (or equivalent) offers on TCN Pub & Bar gift cards at Coles or Woolworths where you’re essentially getting $10 worth of points for every $100 you spend (or 1,000 frequent flyer points).

TCN also sometimes offer discounts on the Pub & Bar card via their online gift card shop Card.Gift.

If you’re just looking for a gift card to spend at any restaurant, it’s also worth keeping an eye out for promotions on the TCN Restaurant card as well as the competing Restaurant Choice and Cafe Choice gift cards as they work in a similar way.

Important links

Stockists

All the stores in our database where we’ve seen TCN Pub & Bar gift cards for sale.

Offers

10% off TCN Shop, Pub & Bar, Good Food, Pamper and Cinema gift cards at Coles

Disclaimer: Whilst we make every effort to ensure that the information here is accurate, sometimes things can change before we have a chance to provide an update. The Card Network should always be regarded as the authoritative source for information on these gift cards.
Have any feedback or suggestions? Let us know below. This page was last updated on 15 Apr 2025.
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