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How to use all your loyalty cards with Apple Wallet straight from the lock screen

29th October 2015 By Gidon 22 Comments

Choose credit card or loyalty card

If you use Apple Pay you’ll be familiar with the double tap of the home button from the lock screen, to let you pay for goods under £30 just using your phone. You’ll need an iPhone 6 or later for the NFC technology that makes all this possible, to be incorporated.

When you double-tap the home button from the lock screen, you’re actually accessing Apple Wallet which securely stores your credit cards but can also store other items like boarding passes and tickets. But wouldn’t it be great if you could also access all your loyalty cards from this interface too? Well you can, but your need a third party app called Stocard, since currently Apple Wallet doesn’t support most loyalty cards.

Capture your loyalty cards using Stocard

First you’ll need to open up the Stocard app and start capturing all you cards. This is very easy – especially if the cards have bar codes since you can scan them in using your phone’s camera. For example for a Tesco Clubcard, start typing and choose Tesco from the list of cards available (1, 2):

Add a Tesco Clubcard to Stocard
Add a Tesco clubcard to Stocard

Since the Tesco card has a barcode, you’ll be prompted to scan it in. Otherwise you’ll enter the number from the card manually:

Scanning in your loyalty card's barcode using the smartphone's camera
Scanning in your loyalty card’s barcode using the smartphone’s camera

Repeat this process until all your cards are captured:

List of captured cards
List of captured cards

So now you could just load up the app, select the card, and hand over the phone to be scanned. But we’ll go one step further and add the most used cards to Apple Wallet so they will be available straight from the lock screen, which is far more convenient. Even more so if you are using Apple Pay anyway.

Integrating select Stocard loyalty cards with Apple Wallet

You don’t want all these cards available through Apple Wallet – I’ve currently got Tesco’s and Costa enabled. Click on the cards you want to add to Wallet and click on the Add to Wallet icon:

Add Costa card to Apple Wallet
Add Costa card to Apple Wallet

Using your loyalty cards from the lock screen

Now when you double tap the home button, you’ll activate Apple Wallet and see your credit cards as usual. But below, you’ll also see your loyalty cards:

Access Wallet from lock screen
Access Wallet from lock screen

Click on the Stocard tab at the bottom of the screen:

Choose your loyalty card
Choose your loyalty card

You can swipe between the loyalty cards you have activated. Then you can hand over your phone to the cashier to let them scan it. Depending on the store’s scanner, the barcode won’t always scan – but it certainly works in Costa and my local Tesco’s.  And if it doesn’t they can type in the card manually.

Swipe to view other cards
Swipe to view other cards

You can pull your credit card back to the foreground by clicking again at the bottom of the screen.

Give it a try and please let me know how you get on or if you have another way of doing this.

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Comments

  1. Derek says

    25th April 2016 at 7:54 am

    There’s no “add to Apple Wallet” option in the Stocard App

    Reply
    • Gidon says

      26th May 2016 at 4:11 pm

      Go into the added card – and click on add to wallet at the bottom of the card’s details.

      Reply
      • Igor says

        20th June 2016 at 8:24 pm

        The button is available for a very limited number of cards.

        Reply
        • Gidon says

          27th June 2016 at 11:45 am

          I’ve checked and here in the UK, nearly every major card is supported. If you’ve entered a card manually they you won’t get the “add to wallet” button.

          Reply
          • Justin says

            10th August 2017 at 6:21 pm

            you just have to click the share button on the bottom of the card and itll give u the add to wallet option!

    • Ollie wade says

      1st July 2016 at 2:15 pm

      Anyway you can remove the stocard from Apple wallet after you have added it

      Reply
  2. Jozi says

    19th August 2016 at 11:58 am

    I did scan my cards…. but barcode is very small.

    why it is like that?

    Reply
  3. Charlotte says

    18th October 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Thanks for this useful guide ????

    Reply
  4. Darren Bruce says

    9th November 2016 at 1:43 am

    I added Holland and Barrett and Tommy Hilfigger by camera but they don’t seem to allow apple wallet

    Reply
  5. pete says

    28th November 2016 at 5:34 pm

    Mind-bogglingly brilliant useful app. Thanks Gidon!

    Reply
  6. Annie Jarrett says

    11th December 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Seems like a great tool. I have loaded my cards and only a couple of them have the add to wallet option. I am in New Zealand and have yet to use it but it has all the cards we use here and in Austraila in the index. Looking forward to trying it out.????

    Reply
  7. Rhys Neary says

    28th December 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Hi. I am having problems using my Morrisons More card. It comes up:

    ‘Could not create Apple Wallet pass. Please check your network connection’

    Is there a problem with Morrisons? My Costa one will work, my Morrisons won’t though. Can someone help me?

    Reply
    • Wolf says

      2nd June 2017 at 7:39 am

      I have the same problem. I couldn’t add a single card. Is there any solutions?

      Reply
  8. Ché Baker says

    7th July 2017 at 1:17 am

    I entered cards manually, had to enter each card and choose the share option on screen which opened a menu with the option to add to wallet

    Reply
  9. Dady Pig says

    6th September 2017 at 11:56 am

    What’s the point of a loyalty card in the wallet? I don’t see how or why it would be used.

    Reply
  10. Dady Pig says

    6th September 2017 at 12:01 pm

    What’s the point of having loyalty cards in the wallet; don’t see how they’d be used

    Reply
  11. Mommy says

    8th September 2017 at 8:34 am

    You are probably a bit thick then, Dady Pig.

    Reply
  12. Sue C says

    16th October 2017 at 11:36 pm

    I’ve added my store cards – I’ve tried the coop one and the Morrisons one but neither work!!

    Reply
  13. Gertie says

    23rd October 2017 at 5:55 am

    Only my nectar card has he option to add to wallet – the share option on my others only has option to “share with friends”.

    Reply
  14. Jon says

    5th November 2017 at 5:25 pm

    Thanks for the guide. Added Tesco and Sainsbury cards easily enough. Any idea if they can be loaded onto the Apple Watch? (It seems from the Watch icon on the phone, it only allows the addition of debit or credit cards).

    Reply
  15. Christopher says

    12th November 2017 at 3:08 pm

    Thanks. Life became a little easier with integrated cards

    Reply
  16. None says

    6th January 2018 at 11:23 pm

    Incase you were wondering about certain cards not being able to be added to apples wallet

    https://stocard.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201441141-I-don-t-see-an-option-to-add-all-cards-to-Apple-Wallet-Why-is-that-?mobile_site=true

    Reply

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