Stocard for the iPhone: the application for easy storage of discount cards

— “Thanks for buying from you stopyatsot rubles. You do not want to buy our card?”
— “And I already have now fetch."And then you will take out of his jacket pocket, business card holders, which neatly stacked discount cards of various shops, cafes, pharmacies, fitness clubs, etc.. You start to flip pocket for a pocket in search of the necessary card, but this time all behind you is getting longer and more irritable. Finally, finding a treasured piece of plastic, you give the seller the card to read the barcode and punch discount. After paying, you leave to put the purchased goods under scathing hiss behind you.

Agree, the situation described above - quite common in large supermarkets. Of course, everything is exaggerated, but sometimes very nervous and impatient can begin not only to yell at the entire store the quality of service, but also to climb with their fists at anyone or falling. However, discount registration system we have just such a prehistoric, if I may say so. Each "stall" has a wonderful storage system percent / points / bonuses and almost violently It thrusts you into the hands of a plastic card, which is sent to lie with another couple of dozen of these same. Find the right card is problematic, as they occupy not only the place but also the time to find them.

With the introduction of Passbook in iOS many have already gotten rid of the problems associated with the purchase and storage of tickets for planes / movies / events. It's really comfortable (I myself often use): you do not need, for example, to go to the cinema for a ticket in advance, if you want to sit on a comfortable place for you. No need to look cinema site for booking spaces (for example, using the application Kinohod you can immediately choose a movie, buy a ticket and session) and generally do extra movements. We choose, buy - ticket in your Passbook, which will be available as usual paper.

However, to implement such ideas for discount cards for some reason, no one has yet ventured up to this time, has not yet appeared Stocard application - your personal e-wallet for discount cards.

The app is absolutely intuitive to manage, store organization cards. First you choose a shop whose map you want to add, and then reads it with a bar code and a desire to make pictures of the front and back sides. Finish the card added. Thus you can store all of their scores, "plastics" in a single application on a smartphone, and at the right time to get a quick access to them.

Library cards are already available is quite extensive, but even if you do not find among a ready set of stores, add a map, you can manually zanesya number and attaching the logo. The same applies to the cards on which there is no bar code. All fast, easy and convenient. Nearly.

What are the cons? To begin with those that are available within the application. There is only one: the lack of search capabilities already added cards. If you have them 10 pieces, then find the right is not difficult, but if their number exceeded 50 (which is quite possible), the search one may also take time. Another minus - it is an adaptation of both our systems and the people behind the counter for something new. Having come into the store and pulled out a card instead of your smartphone with a barcode, you can face a surprised look of the cashier, who asked to "live" a plastic card instead of her image on the display device. - "What if it's not your card?". Of course, not mine, we're all friends one on different phones have that, we have 20 people. As if her physical analog can not be passed from hand to hand.

Another problem that you may encounter, overcoming the first hurdle - readers. For example, the laser can not read the code from the display of the smartphone - and it is also a problem. And some cards even need to physically carry out the magnetic stripe on a special reader. And finally: not all cards have a barcode. Many use just any customer identification number, so in this case it is necessary to fill these numbers manually. One shudders to think what will happen in shopping malls, if we ever will install terminals Pay…

Nevertheless, progress is not standing still, and I am sure that sooner or later all these endless plastic cards come to an end, and the storage of such information on its own smart phone will be the usual, no surprise business.

ZY In Stocards there is a separate section "Offers" designed to alert you at a time when available for your card, any special offers or discounts. Unfortunately, no offer was not done during the test. I suspect that this option may not be available in some countries.

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Stocard

Developer: Stocard GmbH

Price: Free