Category: Mobile apps
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Improving the Checkout experience
On Thursday, 1st May 2025, we will roll out a new checkout experience powered by Stripe’s ‘Optimised Checkout Suite’. This upgrade leverages Stripe’s expertise in creating smooth, reliable, and high-converting payment flows. This is the first of several exciting improvements to Checkout planned for this year, as mentioned in our April Product Update. Checkout is…
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iOS Today Extension update
With the release of iOS18 in mid-September 2024, Apple began to remove the ability to show iOS Today Extensions that were used to display Mobile Tickets and Favourites in the Today view on iOS devices. As more devices take up the latest version of iOS18, Today Extensions will no longer be displayed. Users do not…
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Enhanced rider experience: new look for purchased tickets
Creating an exceptional user experience is a top priority at Passenger, and achieving this can be done in more ways than simply adding new features. This latest update refines the look and feel of a customer’s mobile tickets to improve the ease with which they can view and interact with purchased tickets. Previously, we have…
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Display timetables the way you want: Recognising TXC stop sequence numbers
Creating timetables for your customers that are understandable and easy to use comes with many complex challenges, but with the latest update operators now have even more control over how they are displayed, and the opportunity to standardise across the live timetables and pdfs. The latest release builds on the recent journey sequencing update and…
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Introducing Personalised Travel Alerts: A new way to keep your customers informed
We are excited to announce the upcoming release of Personalised Travel Alerts, a powerful new capability designed to keep your customers informed about the changes that matter most to them. This new feature, available on both iOS and Android, leverages Passenger Cloud data to deliver real-time notifications about Disruptions and Network Changes in a targeted,…
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Every detail matters: Discover the latest enhancements across the platform
To ensure the continued quality of the platform we regularly make small updates across the apps, websites and Passenger Cloud to improve performance, user experience or for any other quality of life enhancement. To keep you up to date with these changes without bombarding you with emails, we will periodically send a summary, such as…
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Change to the Account Heartbeat to further reduce fraud
How does the Account Heartbeat prevent fraud? Active tickets can only be used on one device at a time to prevent multiple people from sharing an account and using the same ticket to board a bus. We enforce this by logging the user out of the old device, if they access the ticket on a…
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Quality of life improvements to app notification settings
We have made some quality-of-life improvements to the settings screen for app notifications. As a reminder, app users can use the notification settings screen to opt-in to push notifications for when: The language used on this screen has been updated to make it much clearer that these relate specifically to push notifications. In addition, if…
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Improving Ticket Coverages
We have been busy improving our Ticket Coverage capabilities to make it easier for operators to communicate mobile ticket validity to their customers. These changes build on the work released in March, which introduced service-based coverages and are summarised below: 1. Operators can now ‘cut out’ portions of an area they have drawn when configuring…
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Upgrading Network Information: Enhancements for apps and websites
To improve the accuracy and usability of bus network information across Passenger apps and websites we have made a number of changes to our suite of journey planning capabilities. To make stop activities clearer to customers we have updated timetables, departure boards, and the journey view (accessed from a departure board) across apps and websites…