Storing Membership Information in the Wallet

In the previous section you looked at storing payment instruments in the Wallet. The Wallet also allows you to save more general information that is not necessarily of a financial nature. Membership information for stores, clubs, libraries, and so forth can also be stored in the Wallet using the WalletTransactionItem class.

In the sample for this section you see how to add membership information for a fictitious Unleashed Card. An IDealsAndMembershipService in the WalletWcfService allows the user to log in and retrieve a custom Member object that contains the user’s membership information. Later in the chapter you also see how the sample app uses the same service to retrieve coupons or deals that ...

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