GoWallet App Tracks Your Gift Cards On-the-go

A great new option for active people on-the-go, GoWallet is an app that helps people keep track of their gift cards online or via a smart phone.

The GoWallet app allows you to order cards, get special deals on them, track other gift cards you own, and instantly see all of your balances in one handy place.  Many of the cards can be spent at the cash register through the app, without ever having to bulk up your wallet with cards.

I’ve played around with the site a bit, and I like it.  Here’s how my experience went.

GoWallet App Tracks Your Gift Cards – The Experience

I don’t know about you, but it always makes me a little nervous to carry gift cards around in my wallet.  They aren’t like credit cards.  They are like cash.  For the most part – if you lose them, they are gone.  GoWallet seems like a nice safety net alternative to this.

GoWallet Mobile is available for iPhone and Android.  It also allows you to consolidate balances, if you have multiple cards, and will display your grand “total spending money” (cute).  I first tried out GoWallet by using their online website.

You can browse the site, and check out available gift cards simply by going to GoWallet.com.  I went ahead and created an account, which is extremely painless:  just enter an email address.

Score the first point for GoWallet!  (I hate lengthy site enrollments.)

As part of this campaign, and to help me become familiar with using the GoWallet app, they were going to present me with a gift card to Bass Pro Shops (keep reading… this is the same great prize I’m giving away!)

But I wanted to experiment with entering some other gift cards I already happened to have in my wallet.  You know those floating gift cards you carry around, never knowing exactly how much credit you actually have left on them?

Well, check this out… it was pretty slick.  I entered a Subway gift card I already owned, which had been used a few times.  Here’s how easy it is to add an existing card:

 After I selected “Retailer or Brand gift card”, I typed in Subway.  It instantly brought up a drop down list of similar options, I selected Subway, and was presented with this screen above.  It even prompted me with a photo of the backside of my gift card, identifying which numbers to enter.

So I entered my card details.  And Walla!  It pulled my Subway card balance, and now has this card stored in my GoWallet account.

The bad news is… I only have $7.89 left on my Subway card.  Boooooo!

But that’s pretty cool, isn’t it?  So now when I login to my GoWallet account, I can see all my card totals together in one place, on the go, anytime.

 

 Same account view from my iPhone GoWallet app:

GoWallet App ~ Which Gift Cards Are Compatible?

I was a little confused by this at first, so I just wanted to clarify how this works.  The GoWallet page states the following:

“GoWallet is a digital service for most prepaid products created by Blackhawk Network, a leading provider of prepaid and financial payments products.”

So I wondered if that meant it only works with gift cards you purchase from the GoWallet.com site?  No, that does not appear to be the case.  As I discussed, I was able to enter existing cards that I owned (who knows?  Maybe they were created by Blackhawk Network??)

But how does this work for purchasing items, say with gift cards entered into your phone? Well, for online shopping, it’s a no brainer.   You can access your gift card account number via GoWallet, and use it for your purchase.  For purchases in store, it sounds like results can vary.   I was told that some stores handle purchases with the app by scanning the code, or getting the numbers off the card entry in your GoWallet.

One last additional nice feature of storing your cards in the GoWallet app:   in addition to your real-time balances, doing so offers lost and stolen card support.

So check out this free app today, and free yourself from that fat wallet!

Giveaway – $50 Gift Card to Bass Pro Shop

GoWallet gave me a Bass Pro Gift Card and some great phone cases… so I’m going to give them to you!  I will be selecting one reader to receive a $50 gift card to Bass Pro Shop.

PLUS… for all my awesome, active lifestyle readers – ten additional winners will receive one of these GoWallet water resistant carrying cases for smart phones, including a set of earbuds inside each case.

You know, for any of you who like to play outside.  Or ride water rides at Disney.  🙂

Open to US Residents.  Entries will be verified.  Enter using the form below.

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I received a Bass Pro Shop gift card in exchange for reviewing the GoWallet app, and describing it to my readers.  All opinions are my own.
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