Booths Card
Booths retired its app.
Your Booths Card did not
go anywhere.
Booths' own app page now reads "Sorry, the Booths App is no longer available." The card in your wallet still works exactly as it did. CardJar is a loyalty card wallet with no account at all, and it will hold your Booths Card on your phone so you stop carrying the plastic one.
Free. No account, no sign-up, no email address.
What the card actually is
A seven-digit account number, and nothing more complicated than that.
Booths' own cardholder FAQ describes the card as a seven-digit number, and says you can read yours out of your online account as soon as you register, weeks before the plastic one arrives in the post. That number is the whole card. The barcode printed on the back is the same number in a shape a till scanner can read.
Which means it moves. Scan the back of your card with CardJar, or type the seven digits in, and you have it on your phone. CardJar recognises the scheme, fills in the name, and colours the card in Booths' own blue so you can find it in the jar without reading anything.
Nothing about this needs Booths to build an app, and nothing about it needs an account with us either. There is no account with us. There is nowhere to sign up.
What this replaces, and what it does not
| Booths' website | CardJar | |
|---|---|---|
| Your card at the till | Sign in and find your number | One tap, no signal, no sign-in |
| On your watch | No | Wear OS, in a tile, held on the watch itself |
| Your points balance | Yes, this is the place for it | No. We hold the card, not the account |
| Cardholder offers | Yes | No, and none anywhere in the app |
| Your other loyalty cards | No | 84 British schemes recognised, and any card you type in yourself |
| Needs an account | Yes, a Booths account | None. There is nothing to sign up to |
CardJar is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Booths. It is a wallet that holds the card you already have. Points, offers, your balance and anything to do with your account stay with Booths, where they belong. If we have anything on this page wrong, tell us and it gets corrected.
Why a general wallet, rather than waiting for another app
Booths is not unusual. It is just further along.
A supermarket the size of Booths ran an app, found it cost more to maintain than it returned, and withdrew it. The card stayed. That is the ordinary shape of this: schemes outlive the software built for them, and the number on the back of the card is the part that never changes.
A wallet that holds any card is not affected by that at all. Booths could ship a new app next year, or never, and the seven digits in CardJar would keep opening at the till either way. The same is true of every other British scheme in the catalogue, from the ones with polished apps to the ones that have only ever been a piece of plastic.
And because there is no server on our side, this does not become somebody else's problem later. The cards are files on your phone. If we stopped tomorrow, the app keeps working, because there is nothing to switch off.
Putting the card on your phone
1. Get the number
Off the back of the plastic card, or out of your Booths account online, where it is shown as seven digits.
2. Scan it or type it
Point the scanner at the barcode and CardJar reads it. No barcode to hand? Type the seven digits and pick Booths Card from the list.
3. Star it
Favourites go to the top of the jar and onto your watch, so the card is one tap away with your phone still in your pocket.
Already have a camera roll full of loyalty card screenshots? CardJar reads every barcode out of every picture you pick and adds them in one go. That import is described on the page for people arriving from Stocard.
Questions Booths cardholders ask
Is there a Booths Card app?
Not from Booths. Its own app page says the app is no longer available, and points cardholders back to the website instead. There is no replacement announced. A general loyalty card wallet is the route that actually exists, and CardJar is one that does not ask you to make an account to use it.
Will the barcode on my screen scan at the till?
Yes. A loyalty barcode is an account number in a machine-readable shape, so a card drawn on a screen is read the same way the plastic one is. CardJar turns the brightness up when a card is open, which is the thing that usually decides whether an older scanner catches it first time.
Can I see my points and my offers in CardJar?
No, and that is deliberate rather than a gap. Showing you a balance would mean holding your Booths login and talking to Booths on your behalf, which is an account, a server and a great deal of trust for a number you can read on their website. The app holds the card. Booths holds the account.
What if I lose my phone?
The card is a number, and Booths still has it. Sign in to your Booths account on the new phone and read the seven digits out again. CardJar also has an optional backup to your own Google Drive, encrypted with a passphrase we never see, if you would rather not do that by hand.
Does this work without a signal?
Entirely. The card, the barcode and the retailer list are all on the phone, so the app opens in a Booths with no reception exactly as it does at home. It has never needed a network for anything you do at a till.
Is there an iPhone version?
Yes. It is on the App Store, for iPhone and iPad, built from the same shared code as the Android app, so a Booths card works the same way on either. There is no Apple Watch app; the wrist is Wear OS only.
One card fewer in your wallet, and no account to make.
Free, with nothing to sign up to, and 84 British schemes recognised on sight, Booths among them.
Free. No account, no sign-up, no email address.