Replace the Multitude of Club Cardlets

A while back I read an article on Lifehacker about consolidating the affinity cards onto my iPhone.

So I tried out: Carstar (App Store link). It’s easy enough to load in the account numbers to create barcodes. But, as at least one of the commenters said it doesn’t always work. And at my local grocery store (which is a recognized store by the software), it doesn’t work at all. So thumbs down from me.

As part of the same article, was a link to KeyRingThing.com. The have an analog take on the problem. They consolidate your affinity card barcodes onto a single card. You can have them print a custom plastic card for about $5 or you can download a pdf version and print it out (I’m going to laminate mine) and carry that around instead of having all of these mini cards on your keyring. Or having the barcodes wear off (usually I put a piece a tape over mine). Or forgetting them (actually I can use Cardstar for that, I just need the account number–since I never use my real phone number as part of the registration).