Tim Hortons Gift Card

Three ways, in order of speed: open the Tims app, where the balance sits on the card screen; enter the card number and PIN on the Tim Hortons website; or ask at the till, where staff can read it off the card. There is no phone line for balances in Canada.

Physical and digital Tims Cards are typically loaded between $5 and $100, and can be topped up afterwards in the app. There is a ceiling on the total balance a single card may hold, so very large gifts are usually split across cards.

No. Under Canadian consumer protection rules, gift cards for a specific retailer cannot carry an expiry date on the funds, and Tim Hortons does not charge dormancy fees. A card found in a drawer years later still spends.

Yes, and this is the part most people miss. Paying with the card in the app scans the rewards account at the same time, so the purchase collects points as well as spending the balance. Paying with a physical card without scanning the app collects nothing.

At current menu prices, roughly 13 medium brewed coffees, or 6 coffee-and-donut runs, or 7 small Original Iced Capps. The table on this page works through every denomination.

For catering ordered in the restaurant, usually yes — ask when you place the order. For third-party delivery apps, no: Uber Eats, DoorDash and SkipTheDishes take their own payment methods and cannot read a Tims Card balance. See the delivery page for how those work.

In any Tim Hortons restaurant, digitally through the Tims app, and in the gift card racks of most Canadian grocery and drug store chains. The digital version arrives by email and can be loaded straight into the recipient's app.

Yes. In the app you can add a card and merge its balance into the one already on your account, which is the tidiest way to clear out several partly used cards. Once merged, the old card is empty.