A while ago I wrote a post on the hassle of carrying around a lot of debit, credit, loyalty and identification cards as they make wallets bulky and difficult to fit into pockets:
The other day I downloaded from the internet and uploaded to my phone an App - STOCARD - which promises to store the details of loyalty and identification cards on a smart phone so that they can be used when needed by opening the App and displaying the barcode. Today I uploaded the barcodes of about a dozen cards to the App in my phone so, theoretically, I'm ready to go.
The trouble is though is that I'm a bit of a Luddite and non-tangible things and especially things 'in the cloud' don't fill me with a lot of confidence. When shopping after dropping The Old Girl off at the bus stop I used my ONE CARD at COUNTDOWN rather than risk holding up the queue behind me by opening my phone and showing the App.
My invention idea is to have one master card (not Mastercard) that has the details of all debit, credit, loyalty and identification cards one owns uploaded to it so that when shopping the debit, credit and identification requirement can be met for the transaction by the retailer hitting a keycode for the appropriate card type just before the master card is scanned.*
I think that this idea is a winner - the Joker in the pack.
* Once again I need to say that I'm the ideas person. Some kind of engineering and IT geek will need to be recruited to take care of these minor details.
That's it?
ReplyDeleteThat's it.
ReplyDeleteJust hold on while I calm myself down after all that excitement.*
ReplyDelete* I joke