- Google Wallet begins showing upgrades for some loyalty cards
- These upgrades provide benefits such as coupons and automatic updates
- It seems to be a case for case so not all short upgrades right now
Google Wallet has a new feature that can automatically mark outdated loyalty cards so you can upgrade them to take advantage of new money -saving programs and offers, giving you another reason to ditch your real wallet to a virtual.
For some time in Google Wallet, you have been able to save your loyalty cards on the app and use it just like a physical card. It was already pretty useful – either as a way to easily carry around several cards without making your real wallet bulge or as a backup if you forget a physical card – and now the wallet looks to take advantage of the digital medium with Loyalty map upgrades.
As discovered by 9to5Google, when some users opened the wallet, the app automatically moved an old CVS loyalty card (an American-based pharmacy mark) to the top of their list of a banner on the one saying ‘upgrade available.’ When you clicked to see what said upgrades meant they were displayed three details:
- Automatic passport updates as changes in reward points
- Related Passports As Offers or Coupons
- Messages from CVS Health
This seems to be one of the first implementations of a feature that Google mentioned back in October, when release notes for Play services teased that “you will now be able to upgrade your passports in Google Wallet.” It was not explained what form these upgrades would take, but now we have a clearer idea.
‘Automatic passport updates’ sounds simple enough – it seems that if CVS changes its loyalty plan, the digital map automatically updates so you don’t have to change it manually – while ‘related passports as offers or coupons’ suggest that Google Wallet Automatically will be with CVS coupons that your account receives, which sounds super practical – which among us has not drawn all the way to a store only to realize that we left Our coupon at home.
Then ‘Messages from CVS Health’ suggest that you choose to receive marketing, even if it is not clear whether this would appear in the wallet or in your E -mail inbox -we hope it is the latter.
Based on how the upgrade is presented, it seems to be a tailor -made setting up from CVS so that other Google -Tektigbogortogrades may look different. What’s more, it’s still early days for this feature and it’s not clear how much of an upgrade it turns out to be (if it just leads to more marketing spam, I’m sure many of us would see these as downgrades). But taking advantage of Wallet’s digital nature to automatically mark coupons and offers is something that most users are likely to appreciate.
We just have to wait and see what other wallet upgrades look like when they roll out – CVS may be one of the first, but we expect it won’t be the last.
