About Nearpass
Nearpass is an app for iPhone and Android that gathers the gift vouchers saved in your photos into a wallet and alerts you with the barcode when you’re near a store that takes it. Your vouchers, photos, and location stay on your phone and aren’t sent to PawPaw.
Nearpass is in Korean for now, so the steps below give its buttons by their Korean names. Settings is the gear icon at the top right of Nearpass.
Get in touch
Email support@pawpawdigital.com. It helps to include what you expected, what happened instead, how to make it happen again, your phone (iPhone or Android), and which version of Nearpass you’re using. Please don’t send barcodes or images of vouchers you haven’t used yet, or store receipts.
Adding vouchers
The first time you open Nearpass, tap 기프티콘 찾기 (Find vouchers) and allow photo access. Nearpass looks through your whole photo library and adds the vouchers it finds to your wallet. After that, it looks through new photos each time you open it.
To choose photos yourself, tap 직접 고르기 (Choose myself) or the + button at the bottom of the screen, and pick up to 10 at a time. You can also share a voucher image from another app and choose Nearpass; it joins your wallet the next time you open Nearpass.
If a voucher isn’t found
- When Nearpass looks on its own, it checks only tall images and screenshots. Pick other images with the + button.
- On iPhone, photos stored only in iCloud, without the original on your iPhone, are skipped when Nearpass looks on its own. Picking them with the + button works.
- If photo access is limited to selected photos, Nearpass sees only those. On iPhone, change this in iOS Settings → Nearpass → Photos. On Android, go to Settings → Apps → Nearpass → Permissions → Photos and videos.
- A voucher you deleted isn’t added again when Nearpass looks on its own. To bring it back, pick its photo with the + button.
If it still isn’t found, email the brand and where the voucher came from, such as KakaoTalk Gift.
Alerts near stores
When you come within 100 meters of a store that takes a voucher on your radar, Nearpass sends a notification with its barcode. On iPhone, open it, and the barcode stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island until you leave the store. On Android, the notification stays in the notification shade while you’re at the store. Without Pro, the 3 vouchers that expire soonest are on the radar.
If alerts don’t arrive:
- In iOS Settings → Nearpass → Location, choose Always and turn on Precise Location.
- In iOS Settings → Nearpass → Notifications, allow notifications.
- On Android, go to Settings → Apps → Nearpass → Permissions → Location, choose Allow all the time, and turn on Use precise location. Allow notifications under Settings → Apps → Nearpass → Notifications.
Nearpass doesn’t alert you at the same store again within 24 hours. It also stays quiet near places where you often stay, like home or work; to be alerted there too, turn off 자주 머무는 곳에서는 알리지 않기 (Stay quiet where I often stay) in Settings. If you tapped 이 매장 알림 끄기 (Turn off alerts for this store) on an alert, tap 다시 켜기 (Turn back on) under 알림 끈 매장 (Muted stores) in Settings.
At the counter
Tap a card to open its barcode. If the barcode won’t scan, tap 원본 이미지 (Original image) to show the voucher as you received it. Once you’ve used an item voucher, press and hold 길게 눌러 사용 완료 (Hold to mark as used), and it moves to 지난 기프티콘 (Past vouchers). For an amount voucher, tap 결제 금액 입력 (Enter amount paid) and enter what you spent, and the balance goes down.
If you marked a voucher as used by mistake, touch and hold it under 지난 기프티콘 (Past vouchers) and tap 사용 취소 (Undo use).
Free and the lifetime pass
Collecting vouchers and showing their barcodes is free, with no limit, and the radar is free for 3 vouchers. Buy 평생 이용권 (Lifetime pass) once to put every voucher on the radar and get reminders before vouchers expire.
On a new phone, or after reinstalling Nearpass, the lifetime pass usually comes back on its own when you open Nearpass. If it doesn’t:
- Make sure the store is signed in with the account you used to buy it: your Apple Account in the App Store, or your Google account in the Play Store.
- In Nearpass, go to Settings and tap 구매 복원 (Restore purchases).
- Stay connected to the internet until the restore finishes.
A pass bought on iPhone doesn’t carry over to Android, or the other way around. If it still isn’t unlocked, email your app version. Apple handles all billing and refunds for App Store purchases, and Google handles them for Google Play purchases.
Moving to a new phone
Nearpass doesn’t sync your wallet between devices. On iPhone, if you set up your new iPhone from an iCloud or computer backup, or transfer data straight from your old iPhone, your wallet and settings come along. On Android, your wallet and settings come along when you restore from a Google backup or copy data from your old phone while setting up. Otherwise, tap 기프티콘 찾기 (Find vouchers) on the new phone, and Nearpass looks through your photos again.
Find your app version
In Nearpass, go to Settings and look for 버전 (Version).
Privacy and license
For privacy or data deletion questions, use the same email address. See the Nearpass Privacy Policy. Nearpass from the App Store is licensed under the Apple Standard EULA.