There is a special offer in the Moscow metro - until the end of the year travel is 20 rubles cheaper when paying with a smartphone with the MIR Pay application. But it was not so easy to take advantage of this promotion.
The action has been going on for a long time, but now I rarely go to the subway and saw its advertisement on the screen in the carriage only last week. I installed the application, linked the card (I received additional free World cards from Tinkoff bank a year ago, when there was the first action in the metro using these cards).
But that was not the case: the smartphone shows a write-off of 44 rubles (44 should be written off, and then 20 should be returned), but the turnstile says "Refusal. Card reading error ". Tried it several times - doesn't work. I wrote to them in support - they were advised to remove the application and install it again. Of course it didn't help.
For the second time, the idea came up - to try to set World Pay as the default payment application (by idea, everything should work without it, and payment should come from the application that is on screen).
And then a miracle happened: the turnstile thought and opened.
After leaving the metro, I tried to buy something by paying, as usual with my smartphone through Google Pay, but the payment terminal reported an error. I tried it several times with different cards, and then I remembered that I had assigned MIR Pay as the default payment application. I returned Google Pay and the payment went through immediately.
I do not know who is to blame for this: my smartphone or MIR Pay, but the fact remains: payment in the subway through MIR Pay only works when MIR Pay is assigned as the default payment application, and Google Pay only works when it is assigned as the default payment application (I remind you once again that this should not be so: despite defaults, payment should be made through the application that is currently on screen).
As a result, to get into the metro for 24 rubles, you have to change the default application to MIR Pay, and after going back to Google Pay.
Very inconvenient, but where to go.
The promotion with a refund of 20 rubles for paying MIR Pay (as well as a promotion with a refund of 10 rubles for paying with Mir cards) should end on December 31, but it is possible that it will be extended, as it was last year.
© 2020, Alexey Nadezhin
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