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Using contactless technologies like e-Passports, payment card and tags.

Using contactless technologies like e-passports, payment card and tags. For questions regarding such payments, usage of such payments varying by country and where they can be made.

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Can you create a Suica card on a foreign phone/Google Pay account?

I am using a European Google Pay-compatible cellphone and the corresponding region account linked to it and will likely be traveling to Japan. I would like to use contact-less-based public transport, for which I would like to create a Suica card on…
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Can I see my TFL travel history when I've used contactless?

On a visit to London I used a contactless credit card to tap in and out of public transport. I know that can look up travel history online for Oyster cards, having done so in the past, but can it be done for contactless? Online search suggests it…
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Advice for Stockholm metro and buses for a large family

I'm researching the best way to get around Stockholm with my family. We are: 2 seniors 2 adults 5 kids ages 9 and under. We arrived at the central train station last night and took the metro to get to our Airbnb. We bought individual tickets on…
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Train smartcards in the UK - which cards can you use on which networks?

Most of the large train companies in the UK have a contactless smartcard system, where a ticket can be loaded in to a card after-which all the user has to do is tap in and out at the departure and arrival stations. As this is not entirely clear to…
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Where can I exchange my old matkakortti for a new one?

HSL, the local public transport operator in the Helsinki region has issued a new type of matkakortti (literally travel card), used for contactless prepaid payments and discounted tickets, at some point between 2017 and 2019. Initially, one could…
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Why get a Leap Visitor Card?

The Leap Visitor Card is available in only a few places. It is 8€/1d, 16€/3d, and 32€/7d. A Leap Card has multimodal fare caps at 8€/1d and 32€/7d. You can buy one at almost any convenience store. If you only use buses, the daily cap is even…
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How to set up a virtual payment card on a phone that a child can use abroad (Poland) to withdraw cash and pay in shops?

I've got a bit of a situation at hand. As a result of a last-minute cancellation my daughter (14yo) has a chance to go on an organised trip to Poland (from Latvia where we live). They leave very early tomorrow morning. The trip is legit with known…
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Clipper on BART/CalTrain. Don't have full fare on the card. What happens?

The Bay Area has a regional all-system card called Clipper. It is an automated near-field-communication style passes where you must tap-in and tap-out so it can charge the fare for your journey. You preload money onto the "card", and then it deducts…
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How to get a Smart Card for the Cairo metro?

According to this article Cairo has smart cards for their metro, however, it is unclear to me how I might go about getting one of these smart cards. Any ideas?
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Contactless virtual Visa card payments in Yodobashi, Japan

Can someone living in Japan please find out if contactless payments made through Google Pay or Apple Pay are accepted in Yodobashi? And specifically, if they are done through a virtual Visa card through one of these systems, if they are eligible for…
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Payment systems in Dublin

It seems that DE / NL is on contactless payment systems and that almost every merchant / metro accepts ApplePay (presumably Google Pay as well). Is this also true of Dublin / Ireland in general? Do merchants routinely accept US dollars or are they…
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Are there any non-cash gas stations in Albania?

Are there any contactless, card, paypal (or anything that isn't cash) gas stations in Albania, or are they all cash only? Also, how to find English speaking stations? I have checked reviews on Google maps and it doesn't seem any/enough info, as well…
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Will a smartcard work alongside a railcard?

I have recently been made aware of smartcards that can be used on regional train services in the UK that act in a similar way to an Oyster card - You load on tickets (similar to loading credit onto an Oyster card) and you then have to tap in and tap…
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