Turn your loyalty programme into a trusted digital credential
Loyalty cards are scattered across apps, plastic cards, emails and separate accounts. The European Digital Identity Wallet creates an opportunity to bring trusted loyalty credentials into a user-controlled digital wallet, so customers can receive, store and present selected loyalty attributes across participating services.
- One reusable digital loyalty credential
- Customer-controlled sharing of loyalty information
- Verified membership and benefit status
- Frictionless recognition across participating services
- Less dependence on separate loyalty apps and cards
Loyalty is still fragmented across apps, cards and accounts
Modern loyalty programmes are digital, but the underlying experience remains fragmented.
Too many loyalty identities
Customers collect cards and accounts across retailers, airlines, hospitality brands and platforms.
Closed loyalty ecosystems
Even when documents are digital, verification is not. Someone still has to check authenticity, validity, and source.
Customers share too much
Traditional loyalty journeys can require identifying information even when a service only needs proof of membership or eligibility.
Benefits are hard to make portable
An EUDI Wallet-based approach can create a new layer: trusted loyalty credentials that customers control and present when a participating service needs them.
From loyalty cards to trusted digital credentials
The EUDI Wallet framework supports user-controlled storage, presentation and selective disclosure of digital identity data and electronic attestations of attributes.
A loyalty credential customers control
Give customers a portable digital representation of membership, status or selected benefits.
Selective disclosure
Request only the attribute needed for a loyalty interaction, rather than an entire customer profile.
Verified benefits and status
Represent membership, tier or entitlement claims as digital credentials that can be authenticated.
Interoperable loyalty journeys
Design loyalty experiences around wallet-based credentials and common interfaces rather than one-off integrations.
The loyalty journey in one view
Customer identity
→
Loyalty credential
→
Selective disclosure
→
Benefit verification
→
Loyalty experience
The shift is from proving who you are to proving only what the loyalty interaction requires.
What you can do with an EUDI Wallet loyalty credential
Issue a trusted loyalty credential
Create a digital credential representing a customer’s relationship with a loyalty programme.
- Membership status
- Customer number or pseudonymous identifier
- Programme tier
- Issue and validity information
Present loyalty status selectively
Let customers share the minimum information needed for a loyalty interaction.
- Tier or membership status
- Benefit eligibility
- Relevant attribute where genuinely needed
- Selected credential data
Verify benefits at the point of service
- Signing authority
- Mandates and delegations
- Roles and responsibilities
- Transaction-specific permissions
Connect loyalty to the physical world
- Customer onboarding
- Supplier onboarding
- KYC and due diligence
- Automated verification flows
Build portable loyalty journeys
- QR or NFC interaction patterns
- Online-to-offline journeys
- Point-of-sale recognition
- Staff verification flows
Create privacy-aware loyalty analytics
- Consent-aware data sharing
- Purpose-limited requests
- Transaction transparency
- Privacy-preserving interaction design
Want to explore what a wallet-based loyalty programme could look like in practice?
A simple flow with a different kind of loyalty experience
Join
The customer enrols and receives a digital loyalty credential.
Store
The credential is held in the customer’s digital wallet under their control.
Present
The customer chooses when to present relevant loyalty information.
Verify & reward
The service validates the credential and applies the eligible benefit.
Less friction for customers. More trustworthy loyalty interactions for businesses.
Built for organisations rethinking loyalty
An EUDI Wallet loyalty use case can be relevant wherever businesses need to recognise customers, validate eligibility or deliver benefits.
- Retailers and marketplaces
- Travel and hospitality
- Events and venues
- Financial services
- Mobility providers
- Consumer platforms​
From loyalty strategy to an EUDI Wallet pilot
The wallet is a new delivery mechanism, not a replacement for the loyalty proposition itself.
Start with the loyalty proposition
Identify the membership, benefit or status that creates the clearest customer value when represented digitally.
Map the trust model
Define who issues the credential, who verifies it, what information is requested and why.
Design the customer journey
Prototype enrolment, wallet storage, presentation, verification and benefit redemption.
See how an EUDI Wallet loyalty experience could work for your organisation
Map a practical loyalty use case, credential journey and pilot architecture around your existing programme.
- Priority loyalty use cases
- Credential and attribute design
- Customer enrolment and wallet journey
- Online and point-of-sale verification
- Partner and ecosystem opportunities
- Privacy and data-sharing considerations
