How to Set Up a Pass Template in Pass Creator

How to Generate a Pass Creator Template

Introduction

Pass Creator is a powerful tool that allows you to easily create customised pass templates for your guests. This guide will walk you through the steps of using the generator to create your own loyalty card template.

Prerequisites

In order to create and save a pass template, please ensure that you have the following:

  • Access to Pass Creator

  • A valid Apple Certificate (.p12 file)

  • Apple Certificate Password

  • Google Key File (.json file)

If you do not yet have these, please see Step 2.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Access the Generator Tool

Log in to Pass Creator using an active user-name and password. When logged in this user interface should look like this:

Access the Template Creator to build a new template

  1. Click on the "Create Template" button

  2. Choose the correct Company

  3. Choose the correct Pass Type (currently only 'Loyalty' will be available to select)

  4. The template creator is now ready to use

 

Customize Your Template

Once you access the template creator there are a number of fields available for you:

 

 

Name: This is the name you give your template. This name is used for internal reference only.

Logo Text: This should be the name of your company e.g. ‘Jordan’s Bar & Grill’

Header Text: This should be the name of the reward offering e.g. ‘Food rewards’.

Description: The description lets Apple VoiceOver make passes accessible to visually impaired users.

Logo Image: Upload image, for best results, use a square image with a transparent background, and at least the following dimensions: 100px by 100px. Maximum file size of 2MB.

Strip Image: Upload an image, for best results, use a rectangular, landscape image with at least the following dimensions: 750px by 246px. Maximum file size of 2MB.

Background Colour: Choose a background colour for your template. Background colour changes the entire display on the pass.

Text Colour: Choose a text colour from colour picker. Note: this is only applicable to Apple passes.

Label colour: Only applicable to Apple passes, label colour changes the display headers.

Optional Field 1: User can either pick customer name, program name or none. If customer name is chosen, the name of the customer appears on the end users’ interface, if program name is chosen, the name of the program as set up in loyalty is chosen.

Optional Field 2: User can either pick customer name, program name or none. If customer name is chosen, the name of the customer appears on the end users’ interface, if program name is chosen, the name of the program as set up in loyalty is chosen.

Apple certificate: Provided by Zonal - refer here if you haven't yet received these.

Google Key File: Provided by Zonal - refer here if you haven't yet received these.

Save

 

Accessing saved template

After creating and saving a template, you can proceed to ‘My Templates’ to access the already generated template and make changes as needed.

 

Selecting desired template in Account Engine (Loyalty)

Customer proceeds to log in to Loyalty using user-name and password. For guidance on setting up email template in Loyalty click here.