Arsom Pass · For organizations
A discovery pass, or digital passport, is a digital pass, sold to the public, that gives access to offers at several partner businesses (most of them one-time) so people have a reason to try them. Your organization already brings these businesses together, and Arsom Pass lets it launch its own in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. You choose the businesses and sell the pass. Arsom runs the technology and shows you the visits, business by business.
Demo screens, shown in French, with fictional businesses. The pass and the redemption screen are also available in English.
The Pass Holder shows the pass from their Wallet. The business redeems it on its own phone, and the visit shows up on your dashboard.
With its own redemption login, on a phone or a computer. There is no scanner to buy and no app to install.
On a second visit to the same business, the screen refuses the offer and shows when it was used. Staff have nothing to check by hand.
Offers granted and refused, business by business, day by day. Every redemption is recorded.
Demo screenshots, in French, with fictional businesses.
Arsom runs the technology. The network is yours, and the offers belong to your businesses.
Arsom
You
Your businesses
The three channels work together. The Arsom Pass page covers each in detail.
Link to the checkout from your website, newsletter and social accounts. The pass lands in the buyer’s Wallet. A family can buy several in one purchase.
A numbered card carrying your illustration and a single-use QR code. The buyer scans it and the pass opens on their phone. Each code activates one pass, and only one.
Each business gets a reusable promotional QR code, ready to print for a counter display. The sales it brings in are credited to it, with or without a commission. That part is your call.
You are not starting over. The businesses, offers and points of sale you already have are what the pass is made of.
List the businesses in the current edition, their offers, the price, and where the booklet is sold. Mark what stays as is and what you have wanted to change for years.
The booklet can become a numbered card sold at the same counters. Arsom sends the single-use QR codes as files and your printer does the rest.
Businesses, offers, expiry date, visual identity. If you run several passes, each becomes its own program with its own businesses.
Create, edit or deactivate Pass Holders one at a time from the dashboard.
Businesses keep honoring booklets already sold until they expire. The pass takes over with the next edition, and the first sales show up on the dashboard by program and by business.
A paper booklet tells you how many copies sold. The pass tells you which businesses Pass Holders actually visited, and when. At the end of the season, you have what your board and funders ask for, and a case for bringing the businesses back.
This is the data the platform records. We have no results to publish yet: our first network is being set up.
Have this checked before you sell
A paid pass touches four regulated areas: the expiry date, refunds, taxes and the personal data of Pass Holders. The rules differ by country, sometimes by province or state, and depend on what the pass actually gives. The platform applies the expiry date you set and calculates taxes at checkout. It does not tell you what is allowed where you operate.
Ask a legal or tax advisor to review all four. If your organization is public or publicly funded, ask them how the sales should be collected as well.
Tell us what you sell today, whether a booklet, a card or nothing yet, and how many businesses are in your network. We’ll get back to you with a quote. No obligation.
roman@arsom.quebec · Canada, United States, France · Dedicated account manager · Pricing by quote
No. The Parks Canada Discovery Pass is an annual admission pass to national parks and historic sites. The discovery pass on this page is a local program: a tourism board, a BIA or a town brings businesses together, and each one gives Pass Holders an offer.
No. With Arsom Pass, the discovery pass is added to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, with no app to download. A Pass Holder who switches devices gets the pass back by email.
No. The booklet becomes a numbered card with your illustration, sold in the same places. Its single-use QR code opens the pass on the buyer’s phone.
No. Each business has its own redemption login and uses it on any phone or computer. Every redemption is recorded.
You do, through your own Stripe account. If you would rather not manage Stripe, sales go through Arsom’s account and the funds are paid out to you. Taxes are calculated at checkout either way.
Yes. You can export your data from the dashboard at any time. Your privacy obligations to Pass Holders vary by country, so check those with an advisor.
An annual subscription that covers the platform, maintenance and support, plus a small commission on each paid pass sold. Pricing is by quote, based on the number of businesses and the length of the program. Arsom Pass costs less than Bandwango, and the comparison puts the two side by side.
Yes. The pass, the sign-up page and the redemption screen exist in English and French, so a destination that welcomes visitors in both languages runs a single program.
In Canada. Your privacy obligations to Pass Holders (consent, retention, access) vary by country, province and state, so check them with an advisor.
Yes. With Arsom Pass, a destination marketing organization can move a paper passport or coupon booklet into Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, and keep a numbered printed card sold at the same counters. You recreate current Pass Holders one at a time from the dashboard.