zoo · Houston
Add your Houston Zoo membership card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.
Scan the barcode or QR on your Houston Zoo membership card once and carry it in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, in Houston Zoo colors or any of hundreds of designs. Free, no account, nothing about you stored.
What code is on a Houston Zoo card?
TapIn has not read a Houston Zoo card yet, so the scanner decides: point the camera at the code on your card or key tag and it reports whether it is a barcode or a QR code and which kind, then fills the number in. If you know the type already, pick it from the list.
How to add a Houston Zoo membership card to your wallet
- Scan the card. Open the TapIn builder with Houston Zoo already filled in, tap Scan the card and hold the code inside the frame. The number and code type fill in. Decoding happens on your phone; the picture is never uploaded.
- Add the logo. Drop in the Houston Zoo logo from their website or an email from them. The pass and the page take on its colors. Pick the lettering you like.
- Add to Wallet. Tap Add to Apple Wallet on an iPhone or Add to Google Wallet on Android. The pass lands in the wallet app; on an iPhone, a double press of the side button opens Wallet from the lock screen.
- Test it once at the admission desk while you still have the physical card.
Why a wallet pass instead of the Houston Zoo app?
A wallet pass is one swipe from the lock screen, works with no signal in the building, and never asks you to sign in. The zoo's own app, if it has one, is still where your account lives; the pass is only the code, made by you for your own use.
The pass looks like the preview in the builder: the logo and Houston Zoo in the header, your design across the strip with your name over it, the small fields above the code, and the code itself drawn by the wallet. What each piece becomes has the detail.
Good to know
- Is this the Houston Zoo app?
- No. TapIn makes a wallet pass that carries your own Houston Zoo number, the same one printed under the code on your card. Your membership and renewal still live with Houston Zoo at houstonzoo.org.
- Will Houston Zoo scan a phone at the admission desk?
- Camera-based scanners read a phone screen; older laser wands often do not. Test the pass once at the admission desk while you still have the card. If the scanner does not pick it up, turn the screen brightness up and try again, or ask them to type the number printed under the code.
- Does TapIn store my Houston Zoo number?
- No. An Apple Wallet pass is signed in memory and sent straight back to you. A Google Wallet pass needs the logo at a web address, so the logo tile is kept under a random name; your name and number are never stored.
- What about a membership with two cards?
- Make a pass per card, each with its own name, on the phone that will carry it. Passes are marked not shareable, so one cannot be passed around; each person makes theirs.
- Which phones work?
- iPhone (Apple Wallet) and Android, including Samsung Galaxy (Google Wallet). On a computer you get a pass file to send to your phone.