Montreal STM users can top up OPUS cards on their phones

A feature eagerly awaited by many public transport users in Greater Montreal will be launched on Wednesday: you can now fill up your OPUS card via a mobile app.

Using the Chrono app, which can be installed for free on Apple and Android devices, public transport users can now purchase fares by tapping the OPUS card on the back of their mobile phone.

Consisting of the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) and its various partner transit companies, the Concert team says this new feature offers OPUS cardholders greater flexibility by “avoiding queues at points of sale and allowing them to purchase more fares. spontaneously, on the move.”

The Chrono app showed the number of tickets remaining on the OPUS card, but the ticket purchase function was launched on Wednesday.

Chrono Opus map app.

The Chrono OPUS card app is visible with your ticket history.

This release comes at the end of the trial period, during which 15,000 residents of the capital were able to test the new function.

In the next few years, the goal of the Concert team is to upgrade the ticketing system and offer payment by bank card directly at the validation terminal.

– This La Presse Canadienne report was translated by CityNews