This is one of my favorite things about the underraged Google Wallet feature app

Google Wallet, while Google’s portfolio is not the most exciting app, is one of the Google Apps that I use all the time. This is my default digital wallet on everyone Android phone I use. All my store prizes/membership cards are in it, and this concert is fantastic for tickets and airplane boarding passes.

In the last few months, I started using a small known and often forgotten Google Wallet Facility, which began to roll out in the last summer: Custom pass. You have long been able to add anything with barcode or QR code to the wallet, but the implementation was very bare. last August, Google upgrade experience To use AI to help create a custom pass for almost anything. And, I have to accept: it’s incredible.

Make a custom Google wallet Near is super simple. Open the wallet app, tap Add to the walletAnd then tap everything else Options under screen. This motivates you to take a picture of cards, membership etc., you want to add to Google Wallet. Alternatively, you can upload a screenshot or photo you have already taken.

The main difference here than the method of working in advance is that you can add items that do not have a barcode or QR code – such as a vehicle registration or insurance card. It was recently used when my partner and I changed insurance plans.

Michigan’s Blue Cross Blue Shield has an Android app, but it is often slow to load and is not most reliable. Technically, I can see my insurance card on it, but there is a good chance that I will have to wait forever to appear. Alternatively, I can add it to Google Wallet and prepare my information to see the doctor’s office or pharmacist immediately. This is very convenient.

This feature also works with other custom passes. I go a lot to my local movie theater, and by default, the only way to find my ticket to scan in the lobby is to dig through my inbox. But I like the ticket correctly after ordering it and adding it to Google Wallet. Not only does it make my ticket easier, but also shows useful information like the name of the film, at what time it starts, which theater is playing and what is my seat number.

Apart from relevant information, Google Wallet includes the custom pass, I also like how they look. Custom passes receive a custom design that they are, and the presentation is fantastic. For example, movie tickets, dedicated sites/section/seat fields and near the bottom have a good amphitheater design. Comparatively, my insurance card has a heart icon with field names, members ID, group number etc. You can see what a different custom pass looks in the gallery above.

These are clearly small touches, but they feel the custom pass like an integrated part of the Google wallet, rather than to deal with something. On more than one occasions, the employees thought that I am using a new app for the theater, when showing them my movie ticket wallet pass. They actually look that good.

Google Wallet does not have a monopoly on the custom pass. Samsung Wallet supports them (although in a very limited way), and Apple Wallet allows you to add custom passes through a third-party app such as stocard. After trying all of them, I can say that the simplicity and presentation of Google Wallet’s approach is unmatched.

I like to feel my digital wallets like a proper expansion of my physical, and the way it handles the custom pass is a big part of why Google Wallet feels so that is more than other digital wallets. This is a simple, convenient and clever feature, and it has made my Google Wallet more useful than ever.