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How does this differ than Passbook (default on iOS)? You may want to answer that on the site, since they look basically the same. And as others mentioned, how is this useful if you can't even use the cards in the real world? It's essentially a nice looking photo library of pictures of your credit cards. I don't see any value in this, I think you need to add some points to the site of how this is could be useful in the real world.

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AFAIK Passbook does not do this, or at least no company has integrated into Passbook yet. I still don't understand how Passbook works. In the US there is only a handful of apps that use Passbook, and even then, the one I do own (United), I still can't figure out "what it does".

"...or at least no company has integrated into Passbook yet..."

Huh? I have tons of apps that use Passbook? I use Passbook daily for rewards cards and loyalty cards? Here is a link to a huge list of apps integrated into Passbook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passbook_(application)

I have personally used it tons of times with my Starbucks card, Walgreens card, and for tickets to get into concerts.

It's actually quite handy. I wish a lot more places would use it.

For example, when flying to Germany I had the Lufthansa app. An hour before the flight it popped up on my home screen and stuck there. (As in, no cancel.)

Then when I go to the airport, I swiped it and the lady just scanned it in - and me and my girlfriend both had our tickets printed.

I think the use case for this app is for people to store their loyalty cards in the app... Not their credit cards.

In most (almost all?) cases the cashier can manually enter the number on the front of the card in to their register. For example, if the magnetic stripe on the back of the card was wearing out or damaged.

Yep. A lot of my loyalty cards also have a bar code on the back which can be scanned. So I believe this would work as well.

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