How Passmint works
Updated June 29, 2026
Passmint turns a design you create once into wallet passes you can send to as many people as you like. Every pass follows the same path, and it helps to picture that path before you start.
The five stages
A template is the reusable blueprint for a pass: its type, colors, images, fields, and barcode. You build it once in the pass designer, and every pass you issue from it inherits that design.
Issuing creates a single, real pass from a template. You supply the values that change per person, such as a name, a seat number, or a points balance, and Passmint generates an Apple Wallet pass, a Google Wallet pass, or both.
Each pass gets its own short link. Send that link by email, text, or QR code. On a phone it opens straight into the wallet; on a desktop it shows a QR code to scan with a phone.
The recipient taps Add to Apple Wallet or Add to Google Wallet, and the pass lands in their wallet alongside their payment cards.
Change a value on the pass and the new version is pushed to every phone that installed it. Nobody needs to download anything again.
Templates and passes are different things
This is the one idea worth getting straight early. A template is the design. A pass is one issued copy of that design held by one person. You might have a single "Gym membership" template and ten thousand passes issued from it, each with a different member name.
When you edit a template, you change the blueprint for passes you issue from then on. When you update an individual pass, you change that one person's card and push it to their phone.
Apple and Google, from one design
You design a pass once and choose which platforms it supports. Passmint handles the differences between Apple Wallet and Google Wallet behind the scenes, including the two very different file formats the platforms use. You can target Apple only, Google only, or both.
New to all of this? The fastest way to understand it is to issue your first pass in test mode. It takes a couple of minutes and costs nothing.