How it started

When my father complained, about the many plastic cards in his physical wallet, i wanted to code a solution. The solution should be digital and as he is an iPhone user it should be in the Apple Wallet App. One of his plastic cards was his Rotary membership card. And because Rotary is pretty big and has some impact in the world, i thought making the digital pass for Rotary would be the biggest challenge. I was definitely right on that ;)

What did i create

The best way to make this accessible to many with a good UX, is an App. This is because adding a pass to things like Apple Wallet is most intuitive on a native iOS App. So i started with a tech stack of Swift, SwiftUI, Node.js and Express.js to deliver an experience where the user would just have to enter his Rotary member information like first name, last name, member id, ... and then he could create the pass and add it to Apple Wallet. I published the App (RO.Pass) on the App Store and many members are already using it. Currently i am also actively working on an Android version. Through its high demand the App was featured by the official Rotary Blog↗ and in a monthly Rotary magazine.