BA Ecobici por Tembici 4+

As a tourist, here’s what I did to make it work:

Go through sign up process.
Take picture of passport (not sure if they validate)
Fill in info (make sure bday is day first and you have two names in your name field first last)
Address info can be anything
Then if it crashes because server error, go back and login in using your newly made credentials.
Validate your account with a phone number ( you get a text)
Then buy the Turístico plan ( only one that takes foreign cards)
You should be good to go.

Still very unclear app and can be improved but got it to work.

Old review below. But I persisted and figured it out.

After going through the painful registration process, I kept getting errors on the payment upload. I realized that despite the fact it offers an ‘other’ category for ID, just leave it set to DNI and omit any letters from your passport number. This worked for me and my payment method was approved. I’m now able to use the bikes.

I think the fact that there are so many bikes available (here in Buenos Aires anyway) is because the app is so horrible to use. Even for locals, the process is unintelligible. It’s taken me well over an hour to figure this out. Insane.

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Original review:

Why have an app that asks for your passport, offers a specific tourist plan and then not allow tourists to make a payment? I see the comments from the developer that this is only for Argentine residents. In which case, why ask for a passport upload? This is one of the worst app experiences I have even come across. After asking for your passsport image, it then asks you for you passport number, and later on, asks you to re-enter it again for payment. After which you get a helpful message in Portuguese that it doesn’t work and to try again later. Terrible. Visitors, please, take it from me, don’t waste your time

Hi! I was surprised to see so many comments in English from tourists... so I wanted to clarify that this app (for the ‘orange’ bicycles you see roaming around) is only for the people living in Argentina, because you require an Argentinian ID to register.
There are other bikes you can rent if you sill want to cycle through the city!!
Hope this is helpful to everyone! 🙂