Google Wallet wins subway and train ticket option in SP

Google announced this Wednesday (01), Google Wallet wins option to buy subway and CPTM tickets in Greater São Paulo. Tickets are read in transport via QR Code by the application itself.

People from São Paulo working from the TOP platform will be able to: buy up to 10 single tickets at a time and pay no extra fees in the process. You can use credit and debit cards stored in Google Wallet to make payments.

Among the benefits, passengers can: keep the ticket and use it at turnstiles even if there is no internet signal on the mobile phone. In addition, the metro and CPTM entrance time does not expire and can be used in 100% of the stations in the SP metropolitan area.

A news available now and joins other features of Wallet by Google, an app that brings together vaccination cards, payment cards, event tickets, boarding passes, and more.

“The new resource is designed to provide a more convenient and safer way to get around the city, especially for those coming from outside of São Paulo. And since a significant portion of the population uses Android devices, digital tickets are becoming very attractive to Brazilians,” he said.

The administrator pointed out that users who want to buy and store train and metro tickets through Google Wallet will be protected with all the security advantages offered by the platform. Among other features, the tool has encryption, mobile phone biometrics or password-based access, privacy features (doesn’t send real credit or debit card numbers in transactions), and apps like Find My Device (where available). block and delete device credentials if lost, stolen or stolen).

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Google Marketing Director Maia Mau pointed out that the digitalization of payment tools is already a reality and this is what she predicts. 4 billion people in the world will use digital wallets by 2024.

Currently available in more than 60 countries, Google Wallet is already used to pay for transportation tickets in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. But in these two states the system is different from São Paulo because cariocas and Brazilians can pass through the transportation turnstiles using the NFC technology of their mobile phones.

In addition to the possibility that SP will approximate a future credit/debit card payment method, transportation tickets in Google Wallet Should also arrive soon for buses in the São Paulo metropolitan area.

“On buses, the ticket uses a different vehicle, because transportation does not use a static QR Code like in subways and trains. “We should complete testing of this new use in the first half of this year, and then the idea is to schedule the launch to give users more of this option,” said Rodney Freitas, CEO of electronic ticket management company Autopass. platform.

For example, about the possibility of expanding the use of Google Wallet for transportation coupons, Google executives said they have no plans. “We are focused on the single ticket and we have nothing to announce about the transport benefits,” said Natacha Litvinov.