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What's Cards?

Cards is a Wallet Platform, enabling consumers to replace their wallet with a faster, safer and modern digital mobile wallet.
Consumers can store any card in Cards app (see Card Types)

Loading cards to Cards
Loading cards to Cards

Cards app safely transmits digital cards to card readers (see Card Readers & Scanners) using various technologies: NFC, Barcodes, Bluetooth, WiFi and others.

Transmit card from phone to card reader over NFC technology
Transmit card from phone to card reader over NFC technology

Organizations can easily create a new digital card and add it to our cards library.

Developers

We Love developers! that's why we worked real hard to make our documentation, SDKs and APIs as easy as possible. If you're a developer interested in digital wallets, welcome home!


You'll be able to connect your:
  • NFC reader
  • Barcode scanner
  • Door lock
  • Time clock
  • POS system
  • App
  • Website
and many other wallet engaging applications; i.e. IAM systems and various IoT devices. You can start by integrating your NFC card reader using our Card Reader SDK or API.

Card Types

Users are able to store any card in Cards:

  • Credit/Debit/ATM Cards
  • Loyalty Cards
  • Employee Cards
  • Door Key Cards
  • Medical Cards
  • Transportation Cards (Bus, Train, Metro etc.)
  • Driver's License Card
  • ID Cards

Card Uses

Digital cards uses are virtually endless, even more than their preceding plastic cards.
With Cards app you're able to:

  • Pay, just like a credit/debit card
  • Transmit card from phone to card reader over NFC technology
    Transmit card from phone to card reader over NFC technology
  • Redeem club/loyalty points, just like a loyalty card
  • Enter, just like an employee, student or visitor tag/card
  • Open an electronic door
    Open an electronic door
  • Commute, just like a bus, train, metro card
  • Commute with Cards using NFC
    Commute with Cards using NFC
  • Punch a time clock, just like an employee tag
  • Punch work clock with Cards using NFC
    Punch work clock with Cards using NFC
  • Park your car, just like your parking permit
  • Identify, just like your ID card
and so much more (see Card Uses).

Card Readers & Scanners

While Cards is not limited to a specific transmission technology, majority of digital cards are transmitted from phones to readers/scanners over NFC (Near Field Communication) and Barcodes.

Scan a barcode on your phone
Scan a barcode on your phone

Cards also supports Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct as transmittion technologies, but we strongly recommend using NFC.