PASSBOOK COUPONS AND PASSES DELIVERY
Passbook is a new app in iOS that works as a virtual container for all your passes, ticket, discount coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards. As a web developer you may want to serve the user with a discount coupon, a ticket to an event, an e-ticket for your next flight or a loyalty card.
Apple allow websites to deliver this kind of passes from a website without the need of a native app.
To deliver the pass on your website you just need to use the MIME type application/vnd.apple.pkpass or send it through email
Apple provides a tool that you can install on your server to package and sign customized passes on the fly that may include current user information
To pass file is just a JSON meta-data file and a couple of images. We need to package the file and sign it. Unfortunately, to sign the pass we need a signature from Appleand that means that the web developer needs an iOS Developer Program account ($99/year). If you receive the pass already signed, you can just insert it on your own site.
One of the great features of passes is that once installed you can provide some web services on your end and through Push Notification Services, the operating system will call your web services to update the information on the pass.
More information at developer.apple.com/passbook
There are website for you to create passbook coupons
There is
For android, this is the app can import ios PKPass https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.attidomobile.passwallet&hl=en
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