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The Kemicard Blog

Practical guides on Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, and turning Salesforce data into passes people actually keep on their phones. The wallet passes & Salesforce blog from the Kemicard team.

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Platform guide

Apple Wallet vs Google Wallet Passes: What's Different?

What a mobile wallet app is, how the two platforms differ, and how to design one template that works on both.

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Security

Are Digital Wallet Passes Secure?

Encryption, signing, sharing controls, and scan-time validation — why wallet passes beat plastic, PDFs, and screenshots.

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Loyalty

How Digital Loyalty Cards Work in the Wallet

Enrollment, points, tiers, and push offers — and why the data behind the card should stay in your CRM.

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Events

Event Tickets Go Digital: QR Tickets in the Wallet

Live updates, lock-screen surfacing, fraud controls, and attendance that lands in your CRM automatically.

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Education

Digital Student ID Cards: A Practical Campus Guide

What campuses use wallet IDs for, and how to roll them out in one semester from Salesforce data.

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Coupons

Apple Wallet Coupons & Offers: A Quick Guide

Lock-screen presence, instant updates, and redemptions that track back to the customer record.

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Design

Loyalty Card Templates: Format, Fields & Example

Which wallet format to pick, which fields earn the front of the card, and a worked example.

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How-to

How to Send Wallet Passes From Salesforce

Install, design, map, issue, distribute — the five-step path from record to wallet.

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Analytics

Wallet Pass Analytics: What to Measure

Install rate, active passes, scans, and message performance — reported natively in Salesforce.

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Strategy

The Rise of Digital Wallets in Customer Experience

Why the wallet is prime brand real estate — and how Salesforce gets onto the lock screen.

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Government

Digital Permits & Licenses: From Paper to Pixels

E-permits and citizen passes: instant issuance, scan verification, real-time revocation.

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Small business

Leaving Paper Punch Cards Behind

QR enrollment, lifetime value, points vs tiers, and compliance — the SMB loyalty playbook.

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Product

What's on the Kemicard Roadmap?

The three pillars, recent highlights like rotating QR codes, and what Kemicard Connect brings next.

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Loyalty

The Evolution of Customer Loyalty Cards

Punch cards to wallet passes: the four reward structures and how to pick yours.

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Retention

Customer Retention Strategies: The Loyalty Playbook

Program design, churn triggers, omnichannel identity, and the metrics that matter.

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Education

Student ID Cards: What Goes on Them

Information architecture, design best practices, and the physical-vs-digital decision.

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Nonprofits

Nonprofit Membership Management: A Practical Guide

CRM vs membership database, software benefits, and migration done right.

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Events

Event Check-In, Modernized

Scanners, software, connectivity contingencies, and data that flows to the CRM.

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Android

Google Wallet Passes: The Complete Guide

What lives in Google Wallet, how passes behave, and what issuers need to know.

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Travel & events

Electronic Tickets, Explained

The honest digital-vs-paper ledger and how wallet delivery changes the game.

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Strategy

Physical vs Digital Membership Cards

Plastic still has a place — here is the hybrid sequencing top programs use.

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Events

Event Registration Done Right

Essential fields, frictionless RSVP, waitlists, VIPs, and automatic follow-up.

Google Wallet vs Samsung Wallet
Android

Google Wallet vs Samsung Wallet

The Android wallet split — and why one link covers Pixel and Galaxy alike.

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Fundamentals

What Is a Web Wallet?

Crypto wallets, browser wallets, mobile wallets — the two-minute disambiguation.

Fundamentals

What Is a .pkpass File? Apple Wallet Passes Explained

The format behind every Apple Wallet pass — what's inside, how to open and create one, and why you never build one by hand.

Nonprofits

Why Nonprofits Should Go Digital With Kemicard

Engagement, sustainability, and cost savings — the full case for retiring plastic membership cards.

How-to

Digital Membership Cards for Salesforce: A Launch Guide

From data model to enrollment email: a step-by-step plan for replacing plastic cards with live wallet passes.

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