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We and our partners process data to: Actively scan device characteristics for identification. From time to time cards with a new design are issued. Since Sold Octopus with a new design is issued regularly, the price varies and may have a limited or no initial stored value usually it has no stored value. When purchasing, if the price has no initial stored value, top up before using.
Sold Octopus functions as an On-Loan Octopus, but has no deposit. Also, it can be used as a standard Adult Octopus, but has no initial stored value. Thus, to use it on other modes of transport, on the MTR after 3 days of unlimited rides or in retail outlets you must top it up. You can take your 1 or 2 journeys on the Airport Express on any day within days of the date of issue.
The sum depends on the destination station and type of pass. The bigger your group the less the benefit of buying AETPs and better to use a bunch of Octopus plus group ticket s. Otherwise, On-Loan Octopus is the choice. But which type is the best is up to you.
Even after 1, days, when the card is deactivated, you can go to any Customer Service Centre at any MTR station and reactivate it free of charge. So you can use it on subsequent trips to Hong Kong. In order to get the refundable deposit and the remaining value on the spot i. Otherwise, it will be sent for processing and you will be notified of the refund within nine working days. The standard version was launched on 11th September Octopus Card company had formed a working party with Shenzhen Tong in to establish reciprocal arrangements to allow the Octopus Card to be used on the Shenzhen Metro and the Shenzhen Tong Shenzhen's equivalent of the Octopus Card to be used on public transport in Hong Kong.
The new card, which can be used for both payment of public transport fares and for small-value purchases is targeted at the many frequent cross-border travellers. The card has two "e-purses" in Hong Kong dollars and yuan in a single chip and will be territory-based so that transactions made in Hong Kong will be charged in Hong Kong dollars and transactions made in Shenzhen will be charged in yuan. Similarly adding value to the Octopus account will only be possible in Hong Kong and adding value to the Shenzhen Tong will only be possible in Shenzhen.
The purchase price of the card includes no useable value and is not refundable. Owing to technical issues, it was not possible to combine the card with the Octopus Card and Lingnan Pass see below. Also in January it was announced that the company had teamed up with mainland company Digital China Holdings to run a joint venture to develop and operate "Citizen Cards" in mainland China.
Digital China Octopus Information Technology Systems will bid for provincial and municipal government contracts to supply and operate cards for services such as social security, medical and healthcare, cultural, educational and birth planning, as well as residential property management and utility bill payments.
The card has separate "electronic purses" enabling yuan payments in Guangdong and Hong Kong dollar payments in Hong Kong and was launched on 3rd July In August , Octopus Cards introduced an "OctoCheck" app for Android mobile devices which allows smartphone users to check their Octopus transaction records by holding their Octopus Cards close to the back of their mobile phone after registering the last five digits of the Octopus Card number.
In March announced that later in the year it plans to introduce a SIM card for near-field technology smartphones such as Sony Xperia and Samsung's S3 and S4, which would enable a phone to act as an Octopus Card and also enable settlement for online purchases by Octopus Card.
Only 5, handsets are available during the pilot and functions of the standard Adult Octopus Card will be available but concessions such as those provided by the Child or Elder Octopus are not be available. Full market launch will take place when satisfactory has been achieved. Initially, the app can only be used on Android smartphones with near-field communication function.
In April Octopus Holdings announced that it is to launch an app enabling peer-to-peer payment through Octopus Cards for customers holding a deposit account with Standard Chartered Bank.
The O! The maximum stored value limit for O! A replacement programme for replacement of 2 million cards, first issued in , was initiated on a voluntary basis in August but some 1. Replacement will be phased in batches and cards in each batch will receive a three beep sound when using the card as a prompt to replace the card.
The prompt is in effect for three months, with the first batch of cards receiving prompts from 18th October and needing to be replaced by 20th January To encourage card holders to use self-service Octopus Service Points a new design On-Loan Octopus Card featuring the new corporate logo is available exclusively from these service points.
First Generation On-Loan Octopus Cards were designed and manufactured before the establishment of Near Field Communication NFC standards and do not have the same functions such as compatibility with smartphone apps or level of security as later editions.
For further details see;. From 14th December Octopus Cards, together with Samsung, began offering tap and pay smartphone functions on some Samsung phones with "Smart Octopus" through the Samsung Pay wallet app allowing locals to use their phones in place of Octopus Card to pay for public transport, small purchases at retail outlets and for entry and exit to residential estates controlled by Octopus function.
Users need to link the card with the phone through the Samsung Pay app using the phone's NFC function after which the card will be deactivated and no longer usable, with the stored value and reward points being held in the wallet. Apple iPhone users with iOS 13 software have able to add Octopus to the Apple Pay Wallet to pay for local travel and small purchases since early June No form of registration or any personal information is required to purchase an On-Loan Octopus Card except Personalised Octopus Cards which are not suitable for most visitors - see "Personalised Octopus Card" below.
Octopus Cards can be bought "over the counter" at any of the locations detailed below under "Where to Purchase the Card". There is no age restriction for loan of the card and no personal identification is required to obtain the card. Child and Elder Octopus Cards are transferable and any concessionary Octopus Card can be used to obtain a concessionary fare for which the user is eligible ie the card does not have to be the one loaned to the user. Age of eligibility for concessions can vary between transport operators eg the main franchised bus operators allow half-price fare for children up to and including age 11 but children up to age 4 to travel free when accompanied by an adult and not occupying a seat.
MTR allows children up to and including age 2 to travel free and half-price fare for children Uniformed staff of transport operators have the right to require passengers using concessionary cards to produce ID with proof of age if requested.
Foreign elderly visitors are able to obtain the Elder Octopus Card which allows the same generous concessions as local senior citizens enjoy under the government's "Public Transport Fare Concession Scheme for the Elderly and Eligible Persons with Disabilities", which was introduced in three phases between June and March
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