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How to use Android Wear and customer loyalty cards to buy stuff
August 20, 2025
Step 1 – Download the required apps
This tutorial is a group effort and you’ll need three apps to make it happen. They are:
Step 2 – Digitize your loyalty cards on Google Wallet
The next step requires you to scan your loyalty cards into Google Wallet.
Step 3 – Make it fit on your smartwatch
Next up, we’ll have to crop it down so that the barcode will fit on your smartwatch screen and still be legible enough to scan later. There are many ways to do this but the way depicted inthe original tutorialused the app Aviary.
Step 4 – Put them in Google Keep and set up the reminders
The next step is putting these images into Google Keep and setting it up so that they pop up at the right time. After doing this, the location reminders will cause the barcode notes to pop up on your smartwatch when you arrive at the business you placed in the location reminder. It’s not essential since you’re able to open Google Keep on your watch and find it manually but it is really handy because doing it manually is tedious.
Step 5 – Use it at the store
At this point you should be able to walk into the store, have Google Keep pop the barcode up for you, and you should be able to scan your watch face at the checkout to scan the barcode. If you didn’t set location reminders or you’re at a different location. Simply open up Google Keep, scroll until you find the proper card, and access it that way. Here are a few additional tips.
It’s worth noting that thanks to inconsistent checkout scanners and other variables and circumstances beyond our control, this may or may not work for you. If it does, it’s a fun little trick that’ll also let you take some of those cards off of your key-chain or out of your wallet. If not, then you have at least learned how to get barcodes, crop them, and put them on Android Wear! Did it work for you? Let us know in the comments. If you do have problems,check out the Android Authority forumsand ask for help there.
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