mTicket Sharing
Ticket sharing allows parents & carers to purchase Young Person fare bus tickets (including day, week, 10-trip, month, Student Saver and annual) on the FREE mTickets app on their own smartphone and and then transfer these directly to their child’s phone.
Therefore parents do not have to store credit or debit card details on their child’s phone and nor do young people have to have access to a payment card to be able to have their bus ticket stored securely on the app on their phone.
All that is needed to share tickets is that both people must have the mTickets app installed and a personal account created. No purchases will need to take place within the app on the child's phone.
Just follow the simple steps below to see how ticket sharing works, or to get started with the app, go to our mTickets page where you'll find a step-by-step guide and a helpful video walk-through demonstration.
Ticket Sharing - Step by Step
Once you’ve downloaded the app and purchased your ticket, it couldn’t be easier to share it with your child by following these simple steps*.
Remember...before you start you'll need to make sure both people have the mTicket app installed on their phones and have both created separate accounts.
You can download a PDF copy of our step-by-step guide here.
STEP 1:
Buy the ticket for your child using the mTicket app on your mobile phone. Remember, anyone aged 5-19 inclusive pays Young Person fare.
STEP 2:
Open the ticket from inside your ticket wallet, and click the share button or share icon (top right of the screen). DO NOT activate the ticket on your phone!
STEP 3:
Confirm that you want to share this ticket. You may be asked more than once...
STEP 4:
Choose how you want to share this ticket...all the usual options are available including text message (SMS) and email.
STEP 5:
Your child will get a message that the ticket has been shared - it looks like a weblink.
STEP 6:
Then, they need to open the link (or copy and paste into a web browser) and simply tap 'Claim tickets' on their phone
