Patent ID: 8554614

Claim:
A method of activating a plurality of disparate stored value presentation instruments, the method comprising: providing, to a consumer, a set of multiple presentation instruments, wherein each presentation instrument includes a unique presentation instrument identifier used to associate value with the presentation instrument, and wherein the set includes at least first and second presentation instruments, wherein the first presentation instrument is redeemable at a first set of merchants and the second presentation instrument is redeemable at a second set of merchants different from the first set of merchants; receiving, by a host computer system over an electronic network, a set identifier that identifies the set of presentation instruments; accessing from a computer database, based on the set identifier, a list of the presentation instruments in the set; activating at the host computer system fewer than all of the presentation instruments in the set; and sending by the host computer system a message to another computer system, the message identifying a presentation instrument not activated at the host computer system and indicating that the presentation instrument not activated at the host computer system is to be activated at the other computer system.