And fingers crossed you don't get a technophobic bus driver who, when you show him your phone looks at you like you've just produced a Martian passport and asks you to pay cash as he's no idea what an m-ticket is.

Cheaper than paying parking :smiley:

Great find, thank you.

Cheaper than paying parking :smiley:

Heat added! :smile:

Nice one

I don't think this applies to London area

voted hot. Great one. Shame it doesnt apply to my area. :disappointed:

Hot! Thank you! Saves me loads! X :smile:

Anyone know if you can still keep the m-ticket unused for later in the year or has it got 2b used during promo dates 3rd-9th July only?

Thanks, OP. Attending a colleague's funeral (may he rest in peace) in Leicester next week, so this couldn't be better timed.

It needs to be used by 9th July sadly

Nice thanks

Don't bother if you have a rooted phone.

do you have to have a phone that can download the app or can you print it off n computer

cab anyone help me

its great that this is just after the expiry of the student ticket glitch :smiley: thanks op!

We are changing phones soon this is typical of Arriva loads of people have windows phones. They don't don't do research or care really. Loads of my mates are moaning. First buses have app for windows

:-)

Do they allow bicycles on them?

Can I use this on Arriva buses in London ?

I've never used the m-ticket app before (it's got truly awful reviews after an update last January - including claims you need a net connection when showing your ticket and it takes an age to actually find the ticket in the app to show the driver), but I decided to buy the 1 quid ticket as an experiment. I don't trust these apps at all - what if your battery runs out or - as it's claimed you might need - you can't get a 3G or wi-fi signal? Apparently, it even displays your name when showing the ticket, which is a dubious breach of privacy that will encourage people to use fake names.

It asks for too much info of course (full name, postcode, mobile number, e-mail address - none of which it actually needs) and although I would normally select Merseyside as my region, I had to select a special region called "Arriva CTBW North West" instead otherwise the CTBW special ticket doesn't appear.

I've no idea why the CTBW ticket needs a promo code - isn't it a special promo ticket on its own and should have been set at the 1 quid price without needing a code? Anyway, it then clumsily jumps out of the app to a Web browser for payment (obviously to avoid Google taking a 30% cut), but at least they do support PayPal. Once I'd paid, the ticket appeared in my list, but *don't* activate it until the day you want to use it - apparently it crazily expires only 18 hours after activation (so much for any chance of picking your day in advance).

I think I might switch on my mobile data before displaying it to the driver next Monday as a precaution (in theory, I could try and use the bus wi-fi, but I'd like to be ready in advance and judging by the app complaints, users struggle to get the ticket shown in time to the driver!). I'm quite surprised Arriva haven't updated this app for 5 months now in order to fix the complaints aired in the app store (a 1.7 rating for it as I speak!).

Don't know what arriva buses are like elsewhere but you will struggle to find one running before 7am and after 7pm , not good as we are a long distance commuter area where most people need to get to/from stations outside those times . That is if they actually run , they claim every 10 minutes on some route but you can stand there for an hour sometimes .

And agree the app is dire

And fingers crossed you don't get a technophobic bus driver who, when you show him your phone looks at you like you've just produced a Martian passport and asks you to pay cash as he's no idea what an m-ticket is.

part of Reading bus company?....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViEmPHY5tGQ

I'll drive thanks

Hello
Regarding the m-ticket app - I've been using it for a couple of years now and it has changed a lot in that time.
Currently it is working very well IMO.
One major issue for me was that you could only pay by entering credit/debit card details - on a phone, where zoom was not allowed by the app, was extremely difficult to even see what was being entered.
But now, you can pay with Paypal or Android Pay - I bought a ticket yesterday.
You can easily pay on the go - I have managed to log on and buy a ticket within 2 minutes with data, when I got to a bus stop and forgot that my m-ticket had expired.
Only remaining issues - sometimes the app tries to download data and that will stop the ticket being displayed for some time, so either make sure that you are in flight mode at a bus stop, or activate the app in a wifi area before you intend to travel, to make sure all is up to date, or try and bring up the ticket en route to the bus stop.
And being in flight mode when about to board a bus is very sensible - some people will always answer a mobile phone call, no matter what social situation they are in - if you answer your phone whilst boarding a bus, the ticket app will ping off and I doubt that the driver will be pleased to welcome your aboard, when you can't show your ticket.
m-tickets are the cheapest way to pay for bus commuting - shame that Arriva East Midlands did away with a quarterly ticket - with a monthly ticket I'm barely saving money, but 'tis more convenient than having to have the correct BFH ready.
Hot deal

Can one be bought for each day?

Anyone know if it works only once or can this be used for day tickets for every day of next week?

never used the app . but daft question..... can't you just screenshot the ticket so you don't need data to show it ?

Doesn't work in Leeds, cheek.

Great find,heat definitely added,maybe more bus companies should do something similar to encourage more to leave cars at home therefore obviously cutting down emissions,traffic problems and keeping town/city centres that bit clearer

Shouldn't be as Arriva run buses throughout Leeds

Doesn't work for Beds and Bucks :disappointed:

Can I buy more than 1 ticket? Need to use the bus for work on Thursday,Friday,Sat and Sun.

I wish this was the price of bus tickets regardless... encourage more people to get on them! £6 for a bus ticket for me and my OH to travel 3 miles the other day. took the car instead. Go abroad and its 1 euro or so to get on and get off wherever you want (within the bus route) Amazing! really wish it was like that here, would always use the buses then! And buses wouldn't be so empty 90% of the time. Governement subsidises the bus companies yet they make a hug profit and overcharge for their tickets. Doesnt make sense. Tickets should be cheaper and buses fuller. Heat added for this, just wish it was long term :-)

I suspect anybody who knows how to create/program apps could quite easily create fake animated tickets that are indistinguishable from the real thing

the ticket really needs a QR code that is scanned when you get on the bus to confirm its valid

edit : looks like this has already been thought of i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAN0l4kdek
- the comments seem to suggest the hacks have been fixed now though

York / Selby area not listed. Pants!

How easy was this to use, going to start using this tomorrow.

Doesn't work I use this app every day and the one day I try to get an offer it doesn't work total **** of an offer

how is it not working for you

Does anyone know how to log out from paypal after purchasing the ticket on the app? I tried to log out by clicking my paypal account but it just purchased another ticket. How can i sign out of pay pal in the app? I tired sign out from the arriva bus app but still my account is in there.

ok this is getting silly now. Day one was fine with my little 3" Alcatel . day 2 no problem my Samsung 4" core prime... day 3 the daughters iPhone. I'm stuck now on day 4 using a 10 inch tablet. I feel a bit daft showing screen to driver but thats gonna be nothing compared to tomorrow when I get on with my 32" smart tv and plug it into the buses 3 pin mains socket so I can power up the app to show my ticket. bejezzus. the things we do for a bargain these days......

Doesn't seem to work in Telford, despite the fact the one and only company that run buses here are Arriva :\

Hopeless app on Android, keeps crashing. Works better on iOS, but says the code is not valid

The ticket isn't working