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iRewardCard for iPhone

Time again for another iPhone app review!  I tried the lite/ free version of this app first and after I decided I liked it, went ahead and bought this app and I’m very pleased with it.  It works for me on several levels:

1) It empties my pockets.  No more the need to carry around a pocket full of plastic reward cards! Sure, you can usually ask the clerk to look up your number, but that slows everything down and is rude to the people behind you.  And for some cards, it is hard.  Like-  my partner and I are never sure- was the pet shop card on his phone number or mine…

2) It makes me look cool! LOL.  At every store where I have held my iPhone to the clerk with a bar code on it, I get the most amazing responses!  People are really interested in it, and the iPhone becomes the center of attention.

3) It simplifies my life.  This is what I think technology ought to do.  It holds all this info in one place that I always have with me.

There are 3 ways to get your barcode into the phone:

1) Select from List.  I have used this one the most.  The phone takes the number you have entered and looks out there across the net for it.  This works relatively well.  I have only had 1 number that it couldn’t find a match for me.

2) Create on Web.  I haven’t used this, so not sure what to say about it.  

3) Select from photo album.  So, for that one I couldn’t find, I used the built in camera to take a photo of the card, and then selected it.

Scanning ability. I have had good luck also with the ability of clerks to scan right off of the phone, but in a few stores this didn’t work and the clerk had to type in the number.

 

There are a few things I would like to see different in future releases:

1) I’d like the ability to organize my cards by name- alphabetic.  This would make finding the right card go quicker when I’m at the register.  Or it would be very cool if it ordered them by the amount of times you use the card.  The more you use it, the higher up the list it would show.

2) I’d love to see this app share info with iNeedStuff, my favorite shopping list app.  So, if you are shopping in a specific store and using iNeedStuff, it could remind you to use your reward card.