Looking for a PassKit alternative?

When you should stay with PassKit

If your programme is working, stay. Switching costs you re-enrolment of your entire customer base, and that cost is almost always underestimated. PassKit is a capable product, and these are real reasons to keep it:

• You have developers, or an existing customer database to build around
• You need card types beyond loyalty: tickets, memberships, coupons, gift cards
• You expect very large card volumes and want infrastructure rather than a product
• You want to own the enrolment flow and design it yourself

When an alternative makes sense

The reasons to move are operational rather than cosmetic:

• You want a loyalty programme running this week with no development
• Your bottleneck is enrolment speed at a counter, not platform flexibility
• You want a predictable flat monthly cost rather than a metered one
• You want the product to tell you what mechanic and threshold to use

What switching costs

Your existing customers have to be re-enrolled. Wallet cards are signed with a certificate belonging to the platform that issued them and cannot be transferred to another provider. This is a property of how Apple and Google secure cards, not a restriction any vendor chose.

Plan for a transition period where you run both systems, enrol new customers on the new one, and migrate regulars as they come in. For most independent businesses that covers the majority of active customers in six to eight weeks.

How Loonine differs

PassKit is a platform rather than a product. It issues Apple Wallet and Google Wallet cards of almost every type, exposes SDKs, webhooks and an API, and is built to scale to very large card volumes. If you have developer capacity, an existing customer database, or a need beyond loyalty (event tickets, memberships, gift cards), PassKit gives you far more surface area than Loonine ever will. Loonine does one thing: gets a loyalty card onto a customer's phone at a busy counter, with nothing to build.

See the full feature-by-feature comparison with PassKit · How to switch without losing your customers.