Freshly Created gift certificate giving error restricted giftcertificate when attempting to add balance

Okay, someone in the office has created a gift certificate that they then tried to add to a customer balance but couldn't. Instead they recieved an error  restricted giftcertificate message instead. I'm personally assuming the issue is that she placed a start and end date on it. What that be an appropriate assumption?

Yes, there is an issue with the startdate/expiration when checking to add to the customer balance.  It will be fixed on the next update.

Thank You. I had suspected that was the issue.