What’s new.

Changes included in Version 5.47 of Passcreator

Features

• Added new types of App Configurations that allows venue operators to check-in and check-out guests rather than just voiding passes after scanning them.

Improvements

• Support further semantic tags that were added with iOS 26.

Bugfixes

• Value Added Opportunities were not added to Google Flight passes if they had personalized fields/placeholders in it.

Changes included in Version 5.45 and 5.46 of Passcreator and Version 3.5.0 of Smart Scan

Features

• Added a QR Code Scanner to the login screen of the Smart Scan App to be able to read configuration codes without being logged in.
• Location based push notifications for Google Wallet passes are generally available and can now be used by every customer!
• Support for new boarding passes in iOS 26.
• Added new semantic tags and link types that have been introduced with iOS 26.
• Added an additional rate-limiting mechanism to download pages for improved security.

Improvements

• Improve Loyalty Enrollment for Apple and Google Wallet passes as part of payment transactions.
• Improve One Tap and Two Tap mechanism to read NFC-enabled passes during Apple and Google Pay transactions.
• Add missing translation for opt in checkbox on landing pages.
• Change message that is shown when an activation link has already been used.
• Create CSV files using the separator that is common for the language the user is using (e.g. semicolon for German, comma for English) so Excel recognizes the columns automatically in most cases.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where rearranging additional properties lead to unexpected order of properties.
• Ampersands in translations were encoded leading to unexpected results.

Changes included in Version 5.43 and 5.44 of Passcreator

Features

• Support for Value Added Opportunities on Google Wallet (natively) and Apple Wallet (through link on back of passes). This feature allows you to add up to 10 related offers. The most recent offer is shown on the front of the pass adding an excellent opportunity to show relevant offers and links.

Improvements

• Recognize Desktop mode on iPhones and show Add to Apple Wallet button instead of the Desktop view that includes buttons that may not work on mobile.
• Improve delivery of pkpass files in Instagram and Facebook In-App browsers.

Bugfixes

• Make handling of empty groups in queries more robust.
• Handle errors when attempting to send and SMS to a short code number and display the error in the message history.

Changes included in Version 5.42 of Passcreator

Features

• Location based notifications for Google Wallet are supported now! You need to be allowlisted by Google if you want to use this currently.

Improvements

• Show a hint DEMO PASS if a demo certificate of Passcreator is used to spot issues before going live with projects.
• Show percentage of values in Analytics tables.
• Removed pkpass files as attachments when sending emails to reduce junk mail issues.

Bugfixes

• Links on front of Google Wallet boarding passes were not displayed properly.
• Translation of Google Wallet passes was not correct in some cases.
• Make sure issuer name can never be empty in Google Wallet.

Changes included in Version 5.40 of Passcreator

Features

• Prepare go live of Workflow Engine. Currently available for select customers.

Improvements

• Improve retry mechanism of push notification delivery.
• Use ReCaptcha with visible fallback in more areas of the system.
• Query and segment ID can now be passed as GET parameter in V3 search endpoint.
• Updated Dutch translations on landing pages.
• Eager loading for Add to Wallet buttons to make layout more consistent.

Bugfixes

• Fix issue with Umlauts and special characters in Search.
• Pass functionality was removed from templates under certain circumstances when publishing changes.
• Allow cellspacing and cellpadding in emails.
• Automatically remove trailing or leading whitespaces of links in Google Wallet passes.
• Fix issue when deleting pass functionality of type loyalty.

Changes included in Version 5.33 of Passcreator

Features

• Add feature to write value entered after scanning a pass in the Smart Scan App to an additional property of the pass. You need to create a new app configuration to use this.

Bugfixes

• Always show publish changes button for templates so Google Wallet template can be updated even if no passes exist, yet.
• Allow cellspacing and cellpadding in email editor.

Changes included in Version 5.32 of Passcreator

Features

• Full support for enhanced event ticket layouts in iOS 18. You can find more information about them on our dedicated page for it.
• Add links to the front of Google Wallet passes.
• It is not possible to provide images in integration URLs. E.g. include a parameter called urlToThumbnail and use the URL to an image if the thumbnail is different per pass for your template.

Improvement

• Added missing fields to the template API (including pass title, header and subheader for Google Wallet).
• Added modified on and expiration date to exports using legacy format.

Bugfixes

• Make sure updates to Google Wallet templates are delivered even if the sharing option would prevent it. In this case a warning message is displayed in the detail view of your template.
• Opt in/out links were not shown on Google Wallet passes.

Changes included in Version 5.30 of Passcreator

Improvement

• Improve authentication performance when a high number of API requests is sent.
• Show SMS text in list view of sendout jobs.
• Fixed slow logout on Google Chrome.

Bugfixes

• Allow POST for V3 search endpoint since it is required to submit a JSON body.
• urlencode function didn't work.
• Allow null value in preferredStyleScheme enum.
• Use eager loading for images in iFrame integration scripts in order to ensure they're displayed with the correct height.
• JSON representation of a query couldn't be shown in the advanced search.

Changes included in Version 5.29 of Passcreator

Features

• Closed beta of new Workflow Engine. Reach out if you want to test it.
• New webhook type first_pushnotification_registered that is only executed for the first download of a pass. This is useful if you want to e.g. send a notification 30 minutes after the pass was downloaded to a device. If you start such a workflow after each download but the pass is downloaded on multiple devices you would potentially send duplicate push notifications. Read the updated documentation.
• We have added a feature that allows you to sign data on passes or URLs by using a new placeholder. Read more about placeholder functions in our knowledge base.

Improvement

• Performance improvement when marking unreachable passes.

Bugfixes

• The search feature was throwing an unexpected error in certain circumstances.

Changes included in Version 5.28 of Passcreator

Features

• Support for relevantDates (introduced with iOS 18, replacing relevantDate eventually in Apple Wallet)
• Support for semantic tags in iOS
• Support for new enhanced event ticket layouts in Apple Wallet
• Add placesUsedAt to search index

Improvements

• Google Wallet push notifications will only be shown for five days on the detail view of passes. This only affects push notifications from now on.
• Barcode images in editor are blurred

Bugfixes

• Return a proper error message if the link to an image returns HTML
• Handle error gracefully that ocurred with very long file names.