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Chongqing News

Mobile payment available in Chongqing buses

2018-12-24 10:23:48

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- So far, 8,677 buses from 620 bus lines in main urban areas of Chongqing are available for mobile payment, including the way of QR code, UnionPay Card Pay and Phone Pay. 

UnionPay Card Pay and Phone Pay covered in 620 bus lines

Since the trial operation for mobile payment on December 11 in main urban areas of Chongqing, people have taken 472,913 pieces of QR code totally with an average consumption of nearly 50,000 travels per day. The system has been running steadily.

As of December 20, the mobile payment has covered 8,677 buses of 620 regular bus lines in the main areas. Apart from existing payment ways via bus card and cash, your QR code, UnionPay card and mobile phone can be used to pay bus fee. Among them:

1. Three approaches for QR code payment: UnionPay Quick Pass, Alipay, and WeChat.

2. Payment via bank card: The cardholder can take a bus, paying by the card with the head number of 62 and the mark of Quick Pass.

Sample of UnionPay card (Picture provided by the Chongqing Traffic Bureau)

Sample of UnionPay card (Picture provided by the Chongqing Traffic Bureau)

3. Payment via mobile phone: Mobile phone for paying bus fee must be equipped with NFC function, and currently Huawei Pay, MI Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and other mainstream Pay app (required for binding UnionPay card with the head number of 62) can be served.

Noticeably, for the new type of POS machine, its upper part is the card touching area, lower is the code scanning area, and medial is the LCD display area. It is recommended that you shall put the phone screen towards the scanning area within 10cm but not too close in order to ensure the rapid identification of QR code.

In addition, please do not put the UnionPay card and bus card together when paying. And if put together, one of them will be deducted according to the sensing order.

UnionPay Card Pay and Phone Pay can be used for other's fee but without 10% and inter-transfer discounts. Compared with the trial operation stage, there are 2 new way for payment: UnionPay Card Pay and Phone Pay. How to use these two?

1. UnionPay Card Pay:

You can take a bus via touching the card area of machine with UnionPay card (which has head number of 62 and the mark of Quick Pass) after you hear the sound of “银联卡” (UnionPay card); if hearing the sound of “请投币” (Charge, please), you need to check up your card and choose other payment method.

2. Phone Pay:

You can take a bus via touching the card area of machine with your phone which is required for NFC function and before binding UnionPay card (which has head number of 62 and the mark of Quick Pass) after you hear the sound of “银联卡” (UnionPay card); if hearing the sound of “请投币” (Charge, please), you need to check up your card and choose other payment method.

Pay attention that QR code payment is only allowed to use one time in 5 minutes if you are in same bus with phone number and type of QR code. However, if you choose the way of UnionPay Card Pay and Phone Pay, you can pay bus fee for you and your friends at the same time.

Unfortunately, you can’t enjoy 10% and inter-transfer discounts if you choose QR code, UnionPay Card Pay and Phone Pay. Those preferential activity is launched by UnionPay, Alipay, and WeChat respectively, so the information is subject to the issue of UnionPay, Alipay, and WeChat. The amount of mobile payment shall not exceed the fare of whole route. (Translated by Jiang Yuling, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei