Mobile ticketing supplier Masabi has been awarded two contracts in the UK, bringing mobile ticketing to students in the West Midlands bus passengers in Lancashire.
National Express Bus will be deploying its end-to-end cloud-based mobile ticketing system, JustRide, across the West Midlands, allowing students to purchase monthly travel passes on their smartphones, providing a new option in addition to the term passes which are purchased in person from existing sales channels.
JustRide comprises apps f
Mobile ticketing supplier 6870 Masabi has been awarded two contracts in the UK, bringing mobile ticketing to students in the West Midlands bus passengers in Lancashire.
National Express Bus will be deploying its end-to-end cloud-based mobile ticketing system, JustRide, across the West Midlands, allowing students to purchase monthly travel passes on their smartphones, providing a new option in addition to the term passes which are purchased in person from existing sales channels.
JustRide comprises apps for ticket purchase, display and inspection together with back-end infrastructure for secure payments, ticket management, customer service, reporting and real-time analytics.
Masabi will also provide the JustRide mobile ticketing solution to Preston Bus, the company running bus services in and around the Lancashire city of Preston.
Passengers wishing to make use of the service will be required to download the Preston Bus app to their Apple or Android smartphone. The customer will then able to choose from the full range of Preston Bus tickets; including daily, weekly and 28-day tickets which are paid for using a credit or debit card. The virtual ticket is then stored in the passenger’s phone and showed to the driver when boarding the bus.
As a part of both deployments, Masabi will be using Mastercard Gateway Payment Services (MPGS) to enable simple, safe and secure in-app digital payments.
National Express Bus will be deploying its end-to-end cloud-based mobile ticketing system, JustRide, across the West Midlands, allowing students to purchase monthly travel passes on their smartphones, providing a new option in addition to the term passes which are purchased in person from existing sales channels.
JustRide comprises apps for ticket purchase, display and inspection together with back-end infrastructure for secure payments, ticket management, customer service, reporting and real-time analytics.
Masabi will also provide the JustRide mobile ticketing solution to Preston Bus, the company running bus services in and around the Lancashire city of Preston.
Passengers wishing to make use of the service will be required to download the Preston Bus app to their Apple or Android smartphone. The customer will then able to choose from the full range of Preston Bus tickets; including daily, weekly and 28-day tickets which are paid for using a credit or debit card. The virtual ticket is then stored in the passenger’s phone and showed to the driver when boarding the bus.
As a part of both deployments, Masabi will be using Mastercard Gateway Payment Services (MPGS) to enable simple, safe and secure in-app digital payments.
