"Your boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and more are now all in one place. You can add passes to Passbook through apps, emails, and websites from participating airlines, theaters, stores, and more. Then you can scan your iPhone or iPod touch to check in for a flight, get into a movie, and redeem a coupon. You can also see when your coupons expire, where your concert seats are, and the balance left on that all-important coffee bar card. Wake your iPhone or iPod touch, and passes appear on your Lock screen at the appropriate time and place — like when you reach the airport or walk into the store to redeem your gift card or coupon. And if your gate changes after you've checked in for your flight, Passbook will even alert you to make sure you’re not relaxing in the wrong terminal."
Seems like a great way to make your ticket purchases and coupons paperless. With all the talk about Passbook it is no surprise that Android has something up its sleeve. Therefore, this tutorial will be for you Android people out there who want a Passbook experience on your phone.
Lets start out with membership, reward, and loyalty cards. Keyring lets you scan these cards and then use them at the participating programs. However, some registers can not scan the phones screen, so you need to have the cashier type in the code manually.
The next big thing is boarding passes. There are several different airlines that have apps, the following also may include notifications if your flight changes and more.
Passbook and Android both lack a little in the mobile ticketing field. But both are getting more support. A major ticketing app on Android is Fandango. It allows you to buy movie tickets on your phone and some theaters will let you skip the ticket booth all together and check right in. Some theaters even allow you to reserve a seat, so you can pick the best spot for your favorite movie. Hopefully we will see more support for mobile only tickets in the near future.
Coupons on the other hand are on the rise already. Many apps including Wallgreens and Target have coupons built right into the app that can just be scanned at the register. But one of the best all around coupon apps is Coupon Sherpa. There are mixed reviews for this app, but from my experiance it seems to be well built. It offers some places that I have never heard of, but of course this does not need to be a bad thing!
And last but not least is Google Wallet. This app is only available "officially" for certain phones on certain carriers, but there are hacks that allow you to bypass all of that. This does work on my Nexus 7 though so I have first hand experience using it. When you launch the app you put in your PIN and then you see 4 different actions that you can take.
Payment cards, where you sign up your credit card.
Rewards cards, where you add your rewards cards to be automatically used at the time of purchases.
Offers, where coupons and offers show up to save you money.
Transactions, where you can review your digital receipts and track your purchases.
Hopefully this has helped you to set up a Passbook like experience on your phone, if you have any other recommendations or questions please feel free to leave a comment below.
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