NEATPASS

Pass Templates

Save the styling of one pass and apply it to others in a single tap. Manage logos, banners, colors, organizer visibility, and barcode formats from one place.

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Pass templates let you save the styling of one pass and apply it to other passes in a single tap. They are useful when you have a styling you keep coming back to: an airline's colors, a venue's logo, a card layout you've fine-tuned. Customize a pass once, save it as a template, and reuse the styling across your library.

What a template stores

Each template tracks a specific set of aspects. You choose which ones to include when you save it, and you can change that choice later by editing the template.

Logo

The pass's primary logo or organization mark, including its crop

Banner

Wide header image used on event tickets and selected pass types

Card Color

Background color and gradient. Stale auto-extracted colors are cleared on apply.

Show Organizer

Whether the organizer or logo text is visible on the pass

Barcode Format

QR, Aztec, PDF417, Code 128, Codabar, and the rest

Save a template

1

Customize a pass

Open a pass and tweak it in Customize Pass until it looks the way you want. Set the colors, choose the logo crop, pick a barcode format.

2

Open the menu

From the pass preview, tap the menu and choose Save as Template.

3

Name it and pick aspects

Give the template a name. Toggle which aspects to include in this template (logo, banner, color, show organizer, barcode format). Aspects you turn off are ignored when applying later.

4

Save

Tap Save. The template appears at the top of your list and syncs across your devices via iCloud.

Apply a template

1

Open your library

Go to your pass library.

2

Select one or more passes

Enter selection mode and tap the passes you want to restyle. Templates can be applied to a single pass or a multi-select.

3

Tap Apply Template

From the selection toolbar, tap Apply Template. A sheet lists every saved template with a search field at the top.

4

Pick a template

Tap the template you want. NeatPass writes the included aspects to every selected pass and re-renders the previews.

Manage templates in Settings

Settings has a dedicated Templates screen for everything that isn't apply.

Tap a template to rename it or change which aspects it includes
Drag templates to reorder them; the custom order persists across launches
Search templates by name from the same screen or from Apply Template
Swipe a template to delete it
Templates sync across your devices via iCloud with last-writer-wins on conflicts

Smart behavior

A few rules keep templates from doing the wrong thing.

Toggling an aspect off preserves the stored image, so re-enabling it restores the previous logo or banner
Templates that explicitly clear the logo or banner write a no-image state to target passes
Barcode formats are validated against the pass's payload before applying. Code 128 against a long Base64 payload, for example, is skipped instead of rendering a broken barcode.
Banner aspect is disabled for boarding passes, since Apple Wallet doesn't render banners on that pass type
Re-applying a template doesn't duplicate logo or banner images on the target pass or across group siblings

Related

For the underlying styling controls templates build on, see Customizing Pass Design. For changing field values rather than styling, see Editing Passes.