account and transaction help for gift / cash-back incomem

[Curtis L. Engelbrecht]

How can I track gift card or cash-back type of transactions? I have a 
couple of credit card that refunds points as cash-back or gift cards at 
various retailers. I'd appreciate suggestions on how to setup the 
accounts to capture the income into asset(s). I started setting up a 
separate asset sub-account for each new card under 
Assets>GiftCards>[VendorxCard_n], but that didn't seem right. There 
would only be on one credit and one, or maybe two, debit transactions 
per account. However, I don't want to limit myself to only a single 
restaurant just because I couldn't figure out how to handle the home 
accounting <grin>.

Here's what I started with:
Assets
+GiftCards
++Card_1
++Card_2
++...Card_n

Income
+GiftCards
++CreditCard1source
++CreditCard2source   

My goal is to capture the income (is it income?) when I receive the gift 
card, and then show the use of that "money" when I capture the expense 
of using the card at the vendor. I think I still want to show that 
there are different cards that eventually get consumed, but I don't see 
a way that doesn't keep growing the number of basically dead accounts 
over time.

I've tried searching through the faq and archives, but didn't turn up 
anything on this subject.

Hoping I asked this clearly, and TIA,
Curt
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Curtis L. Engelbrecht
curtengelbrecht at cox.net