How to put your loyalty card in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet

• Your logo and colours. The card is designed from them.
• A phone for staff to scan with. Any phone or tablet with a camera and a browser. There is no scanning app to install.
• Customers with a smartphone. Apple Wallet is built into every iPhone. Google Wallet runs on Android, and it is available in the Philippines.
• A QR code at the counter. Customers scan it to add the card.

Apple and Google let any business issue wallet cards, but doing it yourself is a software project:

• Apple: an Apple Developer account (US$99 a year), a pass-signing certificate that expires every year, and a server that pushes each change to the customer's phone.
• Google: a Google Wallet issuer account, approved by Google, and a server that writes each change to Google.
• Both: a way for staff to scan cards and record stamps or points, a sign-up page, and somewhere to keep each customer's balance.

A platform does all of that for you. You only design the card and set the reward. Use your own build only if the card is part of an app you are building anyway; see a loyalty app vs a wallet card.

1. Sign in at digicard.tech with your email. We send a code; there is no password.
2. Create your business: its name, logo and brand colours.
3. Sign the service agreement in the app. It states the price per Active Card.
4. Design the card: a stamp card, a points card or a paid membership, and the reward, for example 10 stamps for a free drink.
5. Publish your sign-up link. It is the page your QR code opens.
6. Print the QR code for your counter. Digicard makes a printable counter board from your branding, or finds the QR code in your own artwork.
7. Scan. Staff open the scanner in their phone's browser, scan the customer's card, and the stamp or points land on the card in the customer's wallet.

1. Scan the QR code at your counter with their phone camera.
2. Fill in the short sign-up form you set up and agree to the cardholder terms.
3. Tap Add to Apple Wallet or Save to Google Wallet.
4. Show the card at the counter on each visit. The balance on the card updates by itself.

Digicard charges ₱1 per Active Card per month, VAT included in the Philippines and US$0.02 per Active Card per month, taxes may apply in the US. The first 50 Active Cards each month are free. An Active Card is a card with at least one stamp, reward, message or other qualifying event in the month. Cards nobody uses that month cost nothing.

For the same café priced on paper, an app and every major wallet platform, see what a loyalty program costs.