As a customer of digitec, I often deal with their collection notices which I get via email and which invite me to go to their store and fetch my order (yes. I could have the goods delivered, but I’m impatient and not willing to pay the credit card surcharge).
Ever since Passbook happened on iOS 6, I wished for these collection notices to be iOS Passes as they have a lot of usability benefits:
- passes are location aware an pop up automatically when you get close to the location
- Wallet automatically turns the screen brightness all the way up
- passes could potentially be updated remotely
- once added to the Wallet, passes don’t clutter your mailbox and you’ll never lose them in the noise of your inbox.
So my latest fun project is digipass.
Next time you get a digitec collection notice, just forward it to
digipass@pilif.me
After a few seconds, you will get the same collection notice again, but with the PDF replaced by an iOS Wallet pass that you can add to your Wallet.
I have slightly altered the logo and the name to make it clear that there’s no affiliation to digitec.
The pass will be geo-coded to the correct store, so it will automatically pop up as you get close to the store.
As I don’t want access to your digitec account and because digitec doesn’t have any kind of API, I unfortunately can’t automatically remove the pass when your fetch your order – that’s something only digitec can do.
The source code for the server is available under the MIT license.
Disclaimer:
- I’m not affiliated with digitec aside of being a customer of theirs. If they want me to shut this down, I will.
- I am not logging the collection notices you’re forwarding me. If you don’t trust me, you can self-host, or redact the notice to contain nothing but the URLs (I need these in order to build the pass).
- This is a fun project. If it’s down, it’s down. If it doesn’t work, submit a pull request. Don’t expect any support
- The LMTP daemon powering this is running in my home. I have a very good connection, but I also have not signed an SLA or anything. If it’s down, it’s down (the message will get queued though).
- The moment I see this being abused, it will be shut down. Just like my previous email based fun project
gnegg 