Publish and republish

Publishing makes a card available for enrollment; republishing pushes a later change out to everyone who already has that card in their wallet.

Publish a new card

When you finish designing a card and confirm it, Waya publishes it — it becomes available immediately through its QR code and enrollment link.

Republish an existing card

1. Make your changes

   Edit colors, the logo, stamps required, reward text, or back fields in the Designer.

2. Republish

   Republish the card. Waya updates every existing holder's pass — it queues a class update for Google Wallet and a push notification per device for Apple Wallet.

3. Give it a minute

   Apple and Google both deliver the update to the customer's phone in the background; it isn't always instant.

What gets refreshed

• Visual changes: logo, colors, hero image.
• Reward changes: stamps required, reward text.
• Back-field edits.

Apple Wallet vs Google Wallet

The two platforms handle the update differently under the hood, though you trigger both with the same republish action. Apple Wallet gets a push notification sent to each holder's device through Apple's push service, prompting the pass to refresh. Google Wallet gets a class-level update queued, which Google delivers to every card built from that class. Either way, the result for the customer is the same: the next time they look at the card, it reflects your latest changes.

When to republish

Republish any time you change something a current holder should see — a new reward, an updated stamp count, a rebrand, or a corrected phone number on the back of the card. There's no limit on how often you can republish, so treat it as a normal part of running the card, not a rare event. If you're only changing the enrollment form rather than the card itself, that's a separate setting — see enrollment form fields.

What republish does not do

Republish sends a design and reward update to existing holders; it does not touch each customer's individual stamp, points, or balance progress. A customer with four of six stamps still has four of six stamps after a republish that only changed the logo. The one exception is switching a card's type, which does reinterpret balances — see the warning on card types.

Next steps

• Design your card to make the change first.
• Archive a card instead, if you are retiring it.
• QR code and enrollment link for how new customers enroll.