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A new mobile platform to manage your cards

You are not the only person suffering from a shortage in your wallet because of the huge numbers of loyalty cards and tags that a consumer is supplied with on a daily basis. The irony of the situation is that you cannot even bring yourself to get rid of them because they might actually end up being more than useful for your shopping experience but there is always the trouble of storage and some might even end up getting lost. However there are upcoming mobile applications which are actually platforms that would be able to help you overcome this hurdle in your life.

Very simply put- all the shopping and membership cards can now actually be digitized with these mobile platforms so that you can manage all your cards on your smart phone itself and the businesses can also keep sending you updates and offers; this is a feature therefore that many shoppers will be enthusiastic to have on their smart phones.

Till date, there is the CardStar which did something similar on iPhones. Through this mobile platform users could simply digitize their membership and loyalty cards by entering the barcode number on the cards. This platform was associated with around two hundred retail stores and brand names for the sake of their users. Motorola has also released something similar in their new platform application the Mobile Loyalty Solution.So as the days go by more and more mobile companies are recognizing this specific need of their customers and incorporating similar features as mobile platforms.