We buy day and night cards for public transport in Sofia via smartphone – Bulgaria

From today with day and night cards for public transport in Sofia can be purchased via smartphone . The Metropolitan Urban Mobility Center offers this service to compensate for the lack of delayed ticketing system. Checking the controllers will consist of scanning the code from the smartphone. For the first 1000 users of the new service, the card will be free. We can buy a card through a credit card or through a mobile phone operator based on the payment of parking in Sofia. Until now, however, the ability to buy a day or night card via a smartphone via a mobile phone operator is only available on one of the telecom – [19459005A1 but all will be included by the end of the month

Smartphone cards aim to better serve the citizens and to facilitate access to public transport in the capital, said Mayor Yordanka Fandakova. The new pilot service should help. "A new service that allows pbadengers through their phone to buy travel cards and overnight travel on the first day.The price of the daily pbad is 4 levs and the night – 2 leva.When this pilot project, there will be an opportunity "The first 1000 cards that will be purchased are free for people as a promotion," explains the mayor

How exactly can we buy these two transport documents? explained the director of the Center for Urban Mobility Christian Petrov: "You have to register on sofia.mpbad.bg, which is very easy – by email." Only registration and two names will be required for the & # 39; 39, registration, but without their consent, their data will not be used, Petrov added and explained:
Then you choose from the "purchase" menu and have two options – day or night card. You choose "buy" the corresponding card and then you have two ways to make the purchase – with a credit card or through a mobile phone operator. It is important to choose at the beginning what to pay. If it's through a mobile phone operator, the principle is the same as for blue and green zone SMS, but here we seek to simplify things – you simply enter your phone number and payment is automatically added to the account. "In the subway will be able to enter directly with the code we have on the phone.At the present time, the service only works with a single operator, but will be included at the end of the month.The other most probable transport documents will be included in the service.

The check will take place.And by the controllers as they scan the code of your phone and see if the transport document is activated or not

"It's extremely complicated because ground and underground transport is built into a system, and we'll see how people are using it and getting used to that innovation, but our ambition is to 39, extend the range of transport documents from September to October so we can offer it for subscription cards, "Petrov said.

This service will not cost the municipality of Sofia anything. When selling cards for public transport in this way, there is a commission, and as it is, it is worth selling a document for now, Petrov said.