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Membership cards, barcodes and wallets, explained.
Short answers to the questions people have while putting a card on their phone.
- Barcode or QR code: what is on your membership card?How to tell Code 39, Code 128, EAN, UPC, PDF417, Aztec and QR apart on a gym card, and which of them Apple Wallet and Google Wallet can draw.
- How to add a gym membership card to Apple WalletApple Wallet only accepts signed passes. How a membership barcode becomes a .pkpass, what shows on the lock screen, and what to do when the desk scanner will not read it.
- How to add a gym membership card to Google WalletGoogle Wallet on Android and Samsung phones can carry a gym membership barcode or QR. How the pass is made, why it needs the logo online, and where it appears.