- Google Wallet is starting to display upgrades for certain loyalty cards
- These upgrades offer advantages such as automatic coupons and updates
- It seems that it is a basis on a case -by -case basis, so not all cards will not be improved
Google Wallet has a new feature that can automatically report obsolete loyalty cards, so that you can upgrade them to take advantage of new programs and money saving offers, and this gives you another reason to abandon your real Portfolio for a virtual wallet.
For a while in Google Wallet, you have been able to save your loyalty cards to the application and use it as a physical card. It was already quite useful – either as a way to easily transport several cards without making your real portfolio are brought up, or as a backup if you forget a physical card – and now the wallet seems ready to take advantage of the digital support with stakes level of the loyalty card.
As 9TO5GOOGLE pointed out, when some users opened the portfolio, the application automatically moved an old CVS loyalty card (a pharmacy brand based in the United States) at the top of their list with a banner on this saying ” upgrade available ”. When you click to see what upgrades have involved, they have been shown three details:
- Automatic passes updates such as changes in reward points
- Let pass related like offers or coupons
- Health CVS messages
This seems to be one of the first implementations of a functionality that Google mentioned in October, when the publication notes for the reading services have been teasing that “you can now upgrade your passes in Google Wallet”. It was not explained what form these upgrades would take, but now we have a clearer idea.
“ Automatic Pass updates ” seems quite simple – it seems that if CVS modifies its loyalty scheme, the digital card will automatically update so that you do not need to modify it manually – while the “passes Related like offers or coupons ”suggest that Google Wallet will automatically populate with CVS coupons that your account receives, which seems very practical – which among us did not hike to a store to realize that we left our coupon at home.
Then, “CVS Health messages” suggest that you will choose to receive marketing, although it is not clear if it appears in the Wallet application or in your reception box by e -mail – we hope that it is is the latter.
Depending on the way the upgrade is presented, it seems to be a tailor -made CVS configuration, so other upgrades of the Google Wallet card can be different. In addition, it is still the beginning of this functionality, and it is not clear to what extent it will be up to the upgrade (if it leads to more spam marketing, I am sure that many of us would see them as downgrades). But taking advantage of the digital nature of Wallet to automatically report coupons and offers is something that most users will likely appreciate.
We will just have to wait and see what other wallet upgrades are like when they are – CVS could be one of the first, but we expect it to be the last.
