Passbook is an application on the iOS devices which lets you keep track of your tickets, rewards, coupons all in one place. It lets you keep track of the images and the bar codes so you can display it on your phone and avail requests. This works well for items we like to keep in our digital wallet and use later. Since most of the items are digital today, this wallet is a convenient app to keep in your wallet. What is interesting is that the items are stored on the server and are accessed by a URI. And even more interesting is that the items can be anything as long as they meet the criteria for inclusion in the passbook.
If we consider the various cards we collect and dangle to our keychain, such as rewards cards and gift cards, then these are a substantial collection and therefore convenience to be stored digitally. E-Tickets are another example. All of this is in the passbook. This is a huge convenience to not have loose scraps of paper or card with you anymore. And have everything stored and tracked digitally.
If we could customize these where the user is able to drag and drop different items seen on different screens into the passbook, we add yet another convenience. Images or screenshots can be taken from all the different websites or applications using the phone features and then if they could be dragged and dropped into the passbook, the user now has done away with almost all the copying and pasting that ever needed to be done. Further, the application is the best possible way to keep track images outside the device since its now stored and reclaimed via web requests and responses.
There are already services that integrate with the Passbook already. For example, square provides registration serivices to push cards into the passbook. Most retailers can now directly work with Square integration.
Square provides services that let you charge cards directly from the phone. This is a device you attach to the phone and it lets you swipe credit card on the device. An application on the device reads the card information to process the payment. This application is called the register. This is a native application on the handheld device.
Square also provides a REST API to add cards to Passbook. These APIs lets you create, update, delete and retrieve Passbook pass. With the CRUD functionality available via APIs, there is complete elimination of maintaining any passbook objects on the caller side. The requests and responses are made with a service credential so there is a registration involved. And the same can be used for any type of cards. So if an application could be written to flow passes to your Passbook using integration service such as this, it could enable any user desired card to be cut out and made to flow into the passbook.
If we consider the various cards we collect and dangle to our keychain, such as rewards cards and gift cards, then these are a substantial collection and therefore convenience to be stored digitally. E-Tickets are another example. All of this is in the passbook. This is a huge convenience to not have loose scraps of paper or card with you anymore. And have everything stored and tracked digitally.
If we could customize these where the user is able to drag and drop different items seen on different screens into the passbook, we add yet another convenience. Images or screenshots can be taken from all the different websites or applications using the phone features and then if they could be dragged and dropped into the passbook, the user now has done away with almost all the copying and pasting that ever needed to be done. Further, the application is the best possible way to keep track images outside the device since its now stored and reclaimed via web requests and responses.
There are already services that integrate with the Passbook already. For example, square provides registration serivices to push cards into the passbook. Most retailers can now directly work with Square integration.
Square provides services that let you charge cards directly from the phone. This is a device you attach to the phone and it lets you swipe credit card on the device. An application on the device reads the card information to process the payment. This application is called the register. This is a native application on the handheld device.
Square also provides a REST API to add cards to Passbook. These APIs lets you create, update, delete and retrieve Passbook pass. With the CRUD functionality available via APIs, there is complete elimination of maintaining any passbook objects on the caller side. The requests and responses are made with a service credential so there is a registration involved. And the same can be used for any type of cards. So if an application could be written to flow passes to your Passbook using integration service such as this, it could enable any user desired card to be cut out and made to flow into the passbook.
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