pay with your bank card or smartphone

After several public transport companies are already using OVpay, you can also pay for your train journey with your bank card or smartphone from 31 January. OVpay will also be offered by the NS from then on.

NS with OVpay

From 31 January 2023, the Dutch Railways will support payment via OVpay. OVpay is the name for checking in with your debit card or via your smartphone. If you do this via the latter method, your smartphone must have NFC and your bank account must be set up. Just like at the supermarket or other shop, you hold your smartphone (or debit card) against the reader where you normally hold your public transport chip card. By checking in and out in this way, it works the same as with an OV chip card. You will have to pay the same amount as with your public transport chip card, although, for example, no age discount will be applied if you are entitled to this.

Previously, tests were already carried out with OVpay by the NS on certain routes. These have proven to be successful, so the national roll-out can now begin. At many bus and other public transport companies, you have been able to pay contactless with your bank card or smartphone for some time now. For example, the HTM, EBS, Arriva and Connexxion offer this option in many regions. From 31 January you can also use OVpay on rail routes of other carriers, such as Arriva in Limburg and Qbuzz, which is active on the Merwedelijn.

You do not need to activate anything to use OVpay. Only mobile payment must be set up on your mobile device. If you also have a bank card or public transport chip card near your telephone, it is useful to keep one of these separate, so that a debit is not accidentally taken from another card, because one can be used to check in and out. checked out with the other.