Membership Card Options

I have just looked at Google Wallet (I use it to make payments) and while it allows a number of membership cards to be loaded to it, the C&MC is not one of them. I am assuming that some arrangement by the Club with Google would have to be made?

peedee

It will if you don't or can't use the app, as the Profile one shows your expiry date, along with your name and membership number. That's all they need.

i would have thought they only need some form of identity, after all you have a booking on the system as a member.

The only time you should need to show membership card is if you turn up without a booking, and how many members do that these days?

I turned the internet off on my pad before I opened the sites App and the card was up to date as of today. So would work without a Wifi signal or 4G on a phone.
Although you would have to make sure you were logged into the App when it was closed down, as this is needed to see the card. Once logged in it remains so for several weeks, as long as you just close it and don’t sign out.

The thing I find difficult to understand is why they can show the expiry date on the Web site version but only the current day on the App one.

I am not remotely concerned about tracking or security - I am not clear why tracking might be an issue or how you can avoid it unless you don't have a phone - but I wrote to a friend when he told me his season ticket for football was now an app on his phone: "I don’t like having stuff on the smart phone. Too many organisations are starting to move to phone only. I am not sure about it. Perhaps it is just me but I get confused easily looking for Apps and my tremors make it difficult too. Where there is a choice between an App or a plastic card I still use the card – examples: the Caravan Club, Costa, card payments, AA, Shopping at Sainsbury/Nectar" There are more if I were to check.

Enough said I think on card v app.

Recently, I think it was Burford, but not 100% sure, the very lovely lady who booked me in said to me "Oh don't bother I can see it on the computer", when I was struggling to find my card. I presumed from this it isn't essential (I had found it anyway by that time.) In fact, I am sure there have been times when I have not even been asked for it.       

The thing I find difficult to understand is why they can show the expiry date on the Web site version but only the current day on the App one

I hadn't realised their was a difference.

peedee

The thing I find difficult to understand is why they can show the expiry date on the Web site version but only the current day on the App one

What I should have said if I had been fully concentrating was:

I hadn't realised there was a difference until you pointed it out.

peedee

Some CL's ask for a card and I suspect even more of those will have dodgy phone coverage, as I have found over the past two weeks touring.

We've already seen a degradation of the handbook in that a proper price tariff is no longer included and there is talk of the possibility of no handbook at all and, presumably, no map of sites and CLs. CAMC membership policy appears to be charge more for less.

If the membership card were in apple wallet (and there is no need for agreement with appl for that - its all on the application side), then fine for me. I pay with my phone and would be one fewer cards to carry. Only having it available when on line (i.e. via the app) is daft and defeats its purpose. 

Ok -  I take it back. There is a brand new club app - its linked to from the virtual card on the web site. Its different to the old CAMC app and lets you add the card to your digital wallet. Big step forwards!