Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) has introduced PhonePe ticketing service. CMRL has signed a partnership with PhonePe for providing digital QR-based ticketing for metro travellers.
Passengers can book digital QR-based tickets on the PhonePe Switch platform. This service will also carry the existing 20% discount. A passenger can purchase QR tickets for up to six people from one smartphone at the same time and scan at the entry/exit gates of the Chennai Metro to complete their journey.
PhonePe will introduce three services for commuters in phases – booking of single journey tickets, return journey tickets, and recharge of the smart card on PhonePe Switch. In the first phase, booking of single journey tickets on PhonePe Switch has been enabled. The other two services will be enabled soon.
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Passengers opting to use the PhonePe service should go to the Switch section in the mobile application and select the Chennai Metro icon. After entering the details about origin and destination stations and the number of passengers, the passenger would be able to book ticket via the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) A digital QR code would be generated within the PhonePe application which needs to be scanned at the entry and exit points of the metro stations to complete the journey,
‘This partnership with PhonePe gives our Chennai Metro commuters one more option to avail QR-tickets seamlessly, while also helping us manage our operations efficiently,’ CMRL Managing Director M A Siddique said.
Earlier, PhonePe has collaborated with the Hyderabad Metro, Mumbai Metro, and Delhi Metro.
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