Snapper 4+

This app is excellent, top up is fast and simple. If you hop on a bus and it says “please pay the driver” you can just stand to the side for 10 seconds to top up and you can still catch the same bus! Some reviews are saying they’d like a virtual card inside the phone, which would be awesome (cough Metlink) but being aware of how travel cards work I know it’s not a simple process. And others have said they don’t like the pin on top up, Face ID/Touch ID would be cool! But it is necessary to have some protection as defined by Visa and Mastercards policies for payment gateways so the pin is understandable.

With how often the Wellingtonians in my life sigh like listless war-wives and sing the city’s praises, I’d expected at least a little bit more from the city than stepping off the plane and immediately having to spend $20 ($10 fee for a piece of plastic and $10 to top up enough to leave…). Definitely wasn’t a great first impression. This is a review for an app though, not a public transport system, so I’ll just say that the set-up and user interface on this thing is irritating to use, needlessly long-winded, and I very much Did Not like the fact that things like the youth discount were seemingly hidden under like six drop down menus.

You know how the quickest way to figure out if someone from Wellington is to talk to them for two minutes because they’ll tell you? The quickest way to figure out if I’ve used snapper is going to be a similar method, because I’m going to be complaining about this for a while.

It’s about time iOS got a SNAPPER app been a long time coming. So don’t have to stress whether or not I have credit on my Snapper. BUT when I logged out of my Snapper app it doesn’t register saying email or password wrong which is so frustrating. Have had to create whole new accounts to re-register, but Metlink are awesome helping trying to sort it out. Please try and fix this problem.