Snapper launches iOS app in Wellington

The new Snapper app launches at 10am. Picture / Supplied

Wellingtonians can finally top-up their Snapper cards using their as much with the launch of a new iOS app today.

At the moment people have to top-up their car cards at special stations on the other hand dairies.

Android end users have had the ability to do it from their cell phones for several years now, but Apple owns only recently opened up the software to permit developers to use the hardware.

Snapper chief executive Miki Szikszai said iPhone customers will now be able to check the balance of their card, alter top it up, see their card history, and receive refunds.

“Basically it means they don’t have to go anywhere to do anything, they can do it right from the phone wherever they are.

“This will mean a lot to Snapper note users, it’s by far the number one asked feature for us to deliver. ”

The app launches in today’s times at 10am.

Szikszai said he was really pleased to next be able to get the app into patron’s hands.

“One from your things we see often with Android os customers is that they’re re-loading and thus they’re waiting for the bus and I think being able to reduce that friction here in people’s use of public transport tend to be really important. ”

Reloading public transport smart cards was obviously a “painful process” in many areas of society, Szikszai said.

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Snapper is currently working with the Nationally Transport Authority in Ireland into rollout the iOS app in the jacket industry there.

Snapper chief executive Miki Szikszai. Photo / Supplied

Snapper is trialling an account based system having Wellington for the past couple of years where invitations are linked to, and fares straight away charged to, people’s bank accounts.

Szikszai said about 100 people are involved with the trial, incredibly “on the road map” in terms of setting aside it further in the future, but there was no time frame for that.

In September, Greater Wellington Comarcal Council (GWRC) voted to investigate my feasibility of extending the use of Snapper cards from bus services that can trains as well.

Snapper can currently only be used on busards. Cash payments are taken directly on trains or paper tickets is available ahead of a trip.

GWRC chairman Daran Ponter said during the time that he wouldn’t go as far as ringing the system embarrassing but rather described this “quaint”.

“It’s no-doubt a Victorian system of payment and furthermore quite literally this system was close by in Wellington on our tram social when Queen Victoria was still on the alert. ”

Szikszai exclaimed Snapper was working closely alongside GWRC and Transdev, the training operator, on investigations.