Ondrej Holzman At the end of last year, the My Train application from České drah received a minor update, which, however, fundamentally changed the user experience. The integration of direct payment with MasterPass has greatly simplified the purchase of tickets.
Official application of Czech Railways for mobile devices was already in its first version one of the most pleasant surprises of last year in the App Store. A key part of the application was the ability to buy tickets directly on the iPhone, including all benefits and offers, just like at the counter.
Everything worked well, but with one flaw - every time you bought a ticket, you had to copy your payment card number and other data, for which you usually had to open a second application (1Password) and copying the numbers made the whole process unnecessarily long.
However, Czech Railways has shown that it is serious about the constant improvement of its application, and in the most recent update it offered the MasterPass service, which may be inconspicuous, but is crucial for buying tickets. This service from MasterCard facilitates payments on the Internet, and the My Train application is proof of that.
Just download it to your iPhone the MasterCard Mobile app, insert your payment card into it (both MasterCard and Visa are supported) and then you can pay anywhere on the Internet that supports the MasterPass service just by entering a security PIN or verifying your identity with Touch ID.
When you have everything set up, buying a ticket with Czech Railways is very easy. In the last step of buying a ticket, you choose the MasterPass option, after which the application redirects you to Safari. From there, unfortunately (at least in my case) I have to manually move to the already mentioned MasterCard Mobile application, but then everything goes smoothly.
You press Touch ID once to enter the application, select the card from which you want to pay for the ticket (you can have more than one stored in the application) and verify the payment a second time via Touch ID. You are then moved back to My train, where the purchased ticket is already located.
With MasterPass, everything is much easier and faster than having to manually write out/copy your card details. And above all safer. In addition, the merchant will not receive any information about your payment card.
České dráhy certainly did not come up with any ground-breaking news, but it is very pleasant to see that even such a giant state colossus as České dráhy is able to respond flexibly to modern trends and services. The Můj vlak application and the integration of MasterPass are unequivocal proof that, if you want, you can create a very functional and usable application even for the largest corporations, so we can hope that other people will soon be inspired by Czech Railways.
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Has anyone read the reviews on the Mastercard app? What does this mean and why is the developer a Czech company? Mastercard is so small that it doesn't issue an application by itself?
So application development is often outsourced, and when a company doesn't want to worry about AppleID, it lets the developer issue it under itself, it's not unusual,...
It rather amazes me how the MC payment application has not moved anywhere during its long existence (no, it's really nothing new). But at all, not a single new function in the whole time, NOTHING! On the contrary, some payment gateways dropped it after a few months of operation (GoPay)... So delete it and it was solved, there was no place to pay with it, it will probably take a while. It just needs them to link it to their MC terminals in stores, only then will it be useful…
too bad about the rudeness in the article :( "Czech Railways showed"