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Virgin Australia Membership Passes take flight, following boarding passes

November 9, 2017 by Beau Leave a Comment

Virgin Australia was one of the big partners around Apple’s Passbook launch several years ago, allowing you to check in for your flight online via your mobile phone, and then had the option to add it to Passbook. No more having to deal with filing emails or carrying printouts – it would just appear on your lockscreen at just the right time (a few hours before your flight) like magic. This was later enhanced with a brand new iPhone app, storing your membership details, points history, and boarding passes.

In the last few weeks, Virgin seem to have added the option to have a ‘Digital Membership Card’, allowing you to put your ‘card’ in Wallet (and Android Pay too!). [Read more…] about Virgin Australia Membership Passes take flight, following boarding passes

Prezzee adds support for Apple Wallet

November 6, 2017 by Beau Leave a Comment

Prezzee, an app for iOS, Android and the web has today added support for Apple Wallet.

For those who have never heard off Prezzee, it’s a quick and easy way to buy, gift and share digital gift cards from a range of different retailers, including places like JB HiFi, David Jones, Myer and so on.

Prezzee was actually one of the first Australian apps to add Apple Pay support over a year ago, making it super easy to buy gift cards with a touch of your fingerprint.

Today this support extends to Apple Wallet. Previously any gift cards you had bought or received lived in the Prezzee app – which while not terrible, supporting all the bells and whistles including the remaining balance on the card, obviously wasn’t ideal when you’ve got s perfectly acceptable Wallet app built in.

Woolworths Rewards comes to the iPhone with Apple Wallet support

October 15, 2017 by Beau 14 Comments

Woolworths have become the first retailer in Australia (and one of the first worldwide, with only Walgreens, Coke and Kohl’s onboard elsewhere) to bring their ‘Woolworths Rewards’ program to Apple Wallet.

One of the main benefits (and differences) between your Woolworths Rewards card in Apple Wallet, and using other apps such as Stocard, CommBank or even Woolworths’ own apps (be it Woolworths, Woolworths Fuel or Woolworths Money), is that passes in Wallet have the ability to be transmitted over NFC.
Rather than doing the wave with your phone under the barcode reader in the hope that it’ll scan properly, you just need to tap your phone on the eftpos terminal. And even better, it works on the watch too. Plus – no need to unlock your phone or open an app. [Read more…] about Woolworths Rewards comes to the iPhone with Apple Wallet support

Myer becomes the first Australian retailer to jump on the Passbook train

December 21, 2012 by Beau Leave a Comment

Not long after Apple’s iOS 6 software update was officially released to the public, I earlier wrote some thoughts on ‘Passbook‘; one of my favourite new features in iOS 6 with plenty of potential.

Since then, the number of applications and companies have slowly increased. Just a quick look through AppShopper reveals applications with passbook support added, as well as companies like Qantas and Virgin Australia offering passes via their mobile web checkins (again demonstrating that you don’t need to have an app to support Passbook!) and Ticketek and Moshtix supporting Passbook for events.

The first application to be approved and actively promoted by Apple for having Passbook support was Nova’s ‘ShopperNova‘ app – essentially a directory of coupons and other special offers. While the offers here could be added to Passbook, they weren’t taking complete advantage of all the features – using generic barcodes with just a ‘coupon code’ to be used online, or to confuse staff if you dared to try and use it at a brick and mortar location (looking at you Oporto and SuperDry).

A Passbook Full Of Potential

October 6, 2012 by Beau Leave a Comment

One of maybe the most underhyped (or even overhyped) and hopefully my favourite new feature of Apple’s iOS 6 would have to be Passbook.
Perhaps a not so direct competitor to Google Wallet, in that it doesn’t handle mobile payments (yet), Passbook is yet another app that wants to replace your wallet.

Your boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and more are now all in one place.

Of course, much like anything that relies on third parties – unfortunately those third parties have to also get on board. I believe that Passbook has the potential to become quite large. Surely I can’t be the only one who hates carrying around physical cards in my wallet, digging around for those loyalty cards hidden in there somewhere. Or, printing out those PDF tickets to that event, because you couldn’t remember where you put them last time you hit print. Passbook wants to help you here.

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