System and method for communicating purchases related to a gift card credit

A method and system are provided for communicating digitized data associated with a purchase made by expenditure of a monetary credit account, such as a gift card account. The digitized data may be or comprise audio, photographic or video data. A gift card may be provided that relates to a monetary credit account that may specify an expendable monetary value, a benefactor who initiated the account, and a beneficiary who may use the monetary card. The gift card may record of at least part of the monetary credit account. The system may enable the generation of an electronic message that includes digitized data representing a purchased item and the message may be communicated to a photo-sharing webservice and/or an address associated with the benefactor. The digitized data may be a photograph, icon or a graphic image and the purchased item may be a service, good, license, lease, rent, or permission.