Digital Passes

Digital passes, also known as mobile passes or mobile tickets, are digital representations of traditional paper-based tickets, coupons, loyalty cards, or other forms of identification that can be stored on a mobile device. Apple Wallet and Google Wallet can be used with a Capacitor application to create, store and manage these digital passes.

Apple Wallet Passes

Digital passes for Apple Wallet come in the form of a file format called pkpass.

These can be created, sent as email attachments, downloaded as files or linked in websites. They are generated by your backend server.

As a first step, it is easiest to learn how to Add a Pass before you learn how to Create a Pass.

Google Wallet Passes

Google Wallet has prerequisites for a Google Wallet API issuer account and GCP account (see documentation).

In your backend you will authenticate and authorize and create a pass object.

In your application you can add a pass to Google Wallet which will generate a JWT token which can then be used in a "Add to Google Wallet" link which is in the format: https://pay.google.com/gp/v/save/{token}.