If you know me, you know that I like to travel, I enjoy going to fun places, and I try to be organized about all this as I can do. So i use Amazing vandalog To plan my trips, but since I do not pay for the premium sub of the app, I have to manage my reservation documents separately. This is why every trip gets a folder in Google Drive, and there are all PDF files for hotels, museums, exposes, concerts, events and other bookings, which I have planned during that journey.

It was until a few months ago, though. The custom pass of Google Wallet changed it for me. I was curious about it, then I saw my colleague who wax Adding new reservation and passing it to walletAnd I decided to try it for myself on some trips. The result was an unnatural success and has become my favorite way to handle reservation while traveling.

During his visit to Budapest, I had booked many fun activities: A Visit to the Flipmuzum, a day a day, Sizhekani Thermal Bath, a tour of Unicum Factory, and a modern circus/dance show Richurvel. Typically, all these live in my Google Drive folder as PDFS, and I have to find them to find them or pin that folder on my homescreen.

The wallet ability to convert them to digital pass, however, raises them and makes them more convenient and versatile than a simple PDF document, especially while traveling. I just open the wallet, tap Add to the wallet> everything elseAnd then upload an image/screenshot or take a picture of my reservation, choose a nearby type, and make any necessary editing before saving the digital version.

In my experience, Google Wallet does an excellent job of extracting all the necessary information from any screenshot/photo and DescriptionEven in foreign languages ​​pass, but there is no problem, but significantly, there are no more squinting and spread in a large A4-shaped PDF to re-examine the early time of my unicum tour or find my paradisum seat and section in the theater. All the necessary information is clearly held on a screen on my phone.

I was a little confused at the first time when I saw that Google Wallet was rebuilding a separate barcode for each reservation, but I had never had any problem in a place or event with a new barcode. I have seen some of the eyebrows raised from the check-in clerks in different looks nearby, but they will scan it and see that everything was valid. Most of them probably thought that I had bought my ticket from a new vendor with a new app UI. Also, I know if they have an issue, I can easily do Show them screenshots of original ticketThe Google Wallet is neatly connected to every pass made by me.

Wallet also serves as a central place to maintain all my travel reservations, which brings all the wallet allowances to me. I can Double-tap the power button or tap on the lockscreen icon To open wallets and get for my reservation, which is faster than finding Google Drive Icon or Folder. better yet, Offline by pass default are availableSo I do not have to worry about downloading PDF files or providing them offline one by one in Google Drive. (Sidenote: It still surprises me that I can’t download or make an entire folder offline in drive, this is per file!)

It all matters when I am traveling. I am always walking and reaching my destinations at the last moment, so I do not want to find my reservation, while a impatient clerk sees me angry. Worse than, I do not want to realize the final-minute that my phone has a battery or that I am in a terrible reception zone (which often occurs with a lot of theater and underground exposes) and that my reservation is not loading PDF, I have been forced to go back to download. I really appreciate Google’s features.

No feature is correct, and there is still a lot of place to improve as some custom passes as relatively new. For one, I want to do wallet Arrange the custom pass from the date Like it does for regular passes. Now, when I add my November tickets to the subton concert, they appear at the top of my September ticket for the Virela Concert. I would have to manually draw and leave them in the correct chronological order. Meanwhile, the official wallet pass that I have added to Gmail are conducted properly till the date.

I also want wallet Auto-Archive Old Custom Pass Like it does regular wallet for passes. I still have to go to a nearby, select overflow in icon on the top right, scroll down, and each custom pass has to be stored each custom pass after each event or reservation. Regular wallet pass is stored by default by app when their date is over.

Similarly, I want Pin my custom pass in my notification area My reservation day and time, again, like a regular wallet. I have used it a lot for flight and train tickets – just pull down the notification shadow and my ticket is there. Since Wallet has already removed all the right data for my custom pass, it should be able to do the same thing for my concert ticket and visit to my museum.

I love it too Custom passes were available on my smartwatchSo i can access them by myself Pixel Watch 3 If my phone battery is dead in a pinch or if my phone is safely in my pants pocket. Right now, these customs do not take me to my wearing.

Even more important, however, I would love Rapid and more practical way to make custom passes (Especially several passes when I have two tickets for the same event). Share a PDF document with me directly, or better yet, remove the information from my Gmail confirmation email and automatically add it to a custom pass. And why not link my wallet with my calendar events, to work together to work together? The wallet has a setting for this, but it does not work for me.

At a lower level, when I choose many photos in the wallet while creating a pass, I appreciate that if the app is revealed that these are Many tickets And not many screenshots for a single ticket. Right now, I have to screenshot my husband and my tickets separately from the PDF document and add them to the wallet one by one. And the wallet connects them as two standalone institutions when it could clearly merge several tickets together for the same event if they were added as an official wallet pass. See the difference between my Rasamsam tickets shown with the combo “2” as they came directly from the sales platform and my viola tickets as “Ad to Wallet” integration, which I added as a custom pass.

And if I am a little picky or fancy, I would like if the wallet Auto-assigned more accurate icons for various eventsLike calendars. Give me a cool icon for concert, museum, spa, circus show, dinner, please; Do not stick with a generic icon for all custom events pass.

With all that, all of them are counted as complete features. Google Wallets already include the basics for custom passes, especially with automatic details extraction and keeping the original photo connected to every pass.