What is a wallet pass?
Updated June 26, 2026
A wallet pass is a digital card — a ticket, loyalty card, coupon, or membership — that lives in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet on a phone. Passmint lets you design, issue, and update these passes from a single API.
Passes update over the air. When you change a pass, every phone that installed it receives the new version automatically.
Why use passes?
- They sit one tap away on the lock screen.
- They support live updates, location, and notifications.
- They work without your app installed.
Common types of pass
Almost anything card-shaped can be a wallet pass:
- Event tickets — concerts, conferences, and matches, with barcodes that scan at the gate.
- Loyalty and membership cards — points balances and tiers that stay current.
- Coupons and offers — time-limited deals that surface on the lock screen near a store.
- Boarding passes — flights and transit, updated live as gates or times change.
Where a pass lives
Once added, a pass sits in the phone's native wallet app — Apple Wallet on iPhone, Google Wallet on Android — alongside the user's payment cards. It stays there until the user removes it, and Passmint can update or expire it at any time.