"Train Tickets" - buy tickets on the train with comfort

The existence of sales offices have long forgotten - airline tickets purchased online through the hundreds of available applications. On w / tickets until everything is not so good, but progress is planned and here. In the App Store there was branded "Russian Railways" application with laconic name "Train Tickets", allows you to comfortably buy tickets on the train. About it today and we will tell.

Thus, the "Train Tickets". The application is available in the App Store and google Play.

Perhaps it is not the most beautiful, but the fans certainly enjoy the minimalist design. However, the main thing in the application is still not design and functionality, and there is something to tell.

Describe in detail the process of buying himself a ticket does not make sense, since it will be able to understand each. The interface is quite simple and logical, though not without shortcomings. It will be useful to talk about the benefits that gives the user application.

Discount for children

The first thing to look for when buying - an indication of the number of passengers. This figure men at the bottom of the screen.

Here it is important to specify the categories of passengers. For a child up to 10 years you will pay 35-50% less, and children under 5 years of age and all are free to go, but on the same shelf with you. If you want to put a child alone - choose the category "Children 5-10" even for kids, then just get a ticket discount.

advance cheaper

The choice of date is also has its own nuances: do not try to scroll through the calendar for 3 months in advance. Tickets for the train there on sale for 45 days before train departure. There are several ways in which you can buy a ticket for 60 days, but they are few.

When buying a rail ticket valid the good old principle - the earlier, the cheaper. The "Russian Railways", this system is called "dynamic pricing" - when tickets only "thrown into the market", they are minimal. And then every day the price starts to rise. As a result, 10 days before the departure of the train, you buy a ticket in reserved seat for the amount by which a couple of weeks ago, could afford to buy a ticket in the coupe.

Moral: take tickets in advance for 40-45 days before train departure. But remember: a dynamic pricing system does not operate in a reserved seat. Discounts are on the coupe, soft cars and RVs.

Electronic registration

So, we chose a direction and moved to the choice of the train. Notice the icon in the form of «e» the letter under the train number.

He indicates that the train has an electronic registration. It is the majority of the trains, but not all.

This is a very handy thing, if you have been registered, then you will not have to get a ticket at the train station - boarding pass comes to e-mail. To take the train, the conductor is sufficient to show the coupon, as well as to have a passport. Boarding pass printed out better. Of course, it can be shown on the screen of the phone or tablet, but a mobile device may, for example, be discharged at the crucial moment, and therefore more reliable paper.

Moral: if you do not want extra legwork before departure, do not remove the electronic registration check when buying - in the application it is selected by default.

Selection of the diagram

The application has a detailed scheme almost all trains. The user chooses not to some abstract place, and quite specific - for example, on the top shelf in the third compartment.

While schemes available in the app is only for owners of iOS-devices, but developers in the near future promise to launch this feature and on Android-devices.

prefilling data

After the first purchase application will remember the data that you entered. Information on passengers will not have to enter every time - the field will be filled in automatically, but in the future they can be corrected, if necessary.

The idea is correct, but realize it could be more convenient. For example, to make cards of passengers, from which you can select the desired. In general, the idea is not bad, but it is in this app needs work. We are waiting for correction in a future release.

Fill in the fields you need to carefully: when boarding a train in the ticket data compared with the data of the passport. If there is more than two errors in the train you will not go to jail. Check whether the fields are filled correctly, it is possible in the following screen: You will bring the full information on the ticket, which you intend to buy.

passenger insurance

In the process of buying a ticket can be issued passenger insurance. The insurance is valid only for the duration of the road. Fear of life, health and luggage. Insurance policy will cost 100 rubles.

online Payment

You can pay by credit card, as well as almost all other mobile applications.

It should advance to prepare for the fact that for the registration of the ticket will take a commission. Let not too big, but pleasant enough. For the Commission the application does not often favor high marks in a review. But viewed from all similar applications that run at least more or less reliable, too, take their fee for the service.

One consolation is that the application is still the official, branded "Russian Railways" and is stable.

Support service

Feedback from the customer support is built into the application. If you have problems, search for contacts is not necessary - just click on the icon "Contact" at the bottom of the screen. There you will see the phone or write a letter.

We checked the quality of customer service work themselves and can point to its efficiency.

order management

All orders that have been made through the app are stored. Them at any moment can be found in the section "My Tickets".

Here we have both old and newly made orders. In this section, you can not only see the order number. There is a very useful extra features. So, if you change your mind and want to return a ticket or decide to pass the electronic filing, which for some reason you have not been with the purchase - all this can be done without leaving the app. there is also stored your control coupon.

Map "RZD-bonus"

If you accumulate points by "RZD-Bonus" program, you can continue to save them, and buying tickets through the mobile application. Enter the card number, and it will fall after purchase bonus points.

Important: to spend their bonuses in the mobile app can not, then this feature is only for storage.

It seems we are told about all the subtleties and nuances, through which you can use this application to the maximum. It is hoped that over time, the developer will reduce the size of the Commission and rectify the existing shortcomings in the application. But now, "Train Tickets" can be seen as a much more convenient alternative to the classical method of buying tickets through the box office at the station.