12306 reminds you to check in with QR code, which means you can't swipe your ID card?

This year, it's as hard as ever to grab a train ticket in Spring Festival travel rush. Even if you are lucky enough to get a ticket, you may have to struggle to get into the station before you set foot on the train home. That's your e-ticket

Many friends who bought tickets found that the notification message of 12306 not only contained the information of ticket purchase, but also "intimately" reminded that "you bought an electronic ticket, and you don't need to exchange a paper ticket, so you can enter the station directly with the ticket purchase certificate".

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It's nothing new to swipe your ID card and take the bus. Railway stations all over the country, especially high-speed railway station, have supported it for several years, but since the end of last year, the railway bureau has suddenly stepped up its promotion efforts, adding the now common mobile phone QR code on the basis of the original ID card ride.

You don't need to pick up the ticket, just swipe your mobile phone? It looks very convenient, and Tiezong can keep up with the trend of mobile Internet more and more. However, the reform of China Railway Corporation has taken a bit of a big step, allowing young people familiar with the Internet to directly block the entrances and exits, or inquire about the ticket gates in the waiting hall, and there are not a few student parties who accidentally miss the train.

Isn't it just an electronic ticket? Why are you complaining?

No paper tickets, no!

According to the official explanation of 12306, the purpose of implementing e-ticket is to "separate the three functions of passenger contract, ride and reimbursement carried by the original paper ticket, realize the electronization of transport contract vouchers, paperless ride vouchers and provide reimbursement vouchers on demand, and further improve the travel experience of the majority of passengers".

The key points are: separation of passenger transport contract, ride and reimbursement functions.

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What do you mean? In other words, in the station that supports electronic tickets, all you can take out from the ticket machine is the reimbursement voucher. If you want to take the bus, you still have to brush your card honestly. Then you will see a staff member explaining to the passengers (mainly the elderly) that "this ticket can't take the bus" on the ticket pick-up machine, and the station broadcast will also broadcast how to get the reimbursement voucher in a loop.

You may find that e-tickets are not friendly to people who are not good at using the internet, but do you think young people are not under pressure? This year's railway station is a scene of massive collapse of contemporary young people.

Why is it so difficult to find a ticket gate information?

In fact, many people go to the ticket machine to get paper tickets, mainly for the convenience of viewing seat information and ticket gates. Now, after the implementation of e-ticket, in order to convince passengers who hold this purpose, the reimbursement voucher does not have these two pieces of information from the beginning.

It's easy to check the seats. Just scan the QR code on the reimbursement voucher with your mobile phone, and the ticket purchase information of 12306 in official website or app will also be prompted. If you meet a passenger who doesn't know how to check his seat at the station, you can do a good thing like Lei Feng, sweep it with WeChat and help him check it.

As for the ticket gate, I can only look at the big screen in the waiting hall at first. Later, official website put the ticket gate in the order details of 12306, and finally supported the notification of the ticket gate in the app and the ticket purchase SMS.

▲ Ticket purchase information has also been added to the ticket purchase email address of 12306.

Mr. Tie probably noticed the inconvenience of passengers. Recently, the reimbursement voucher has resumed displaying ticket gate information.

The experience of the student party is not much better. Although 12306 indicates that students can swipe their ID cards in and out of the station as long as they have gone through the ID card and student ID card authentication at the ticket window (once a year before boarding the bus), and the ticket purchase SMS also reminds students that "there is no need to exchange paper tickets", it may be that the system is not well docked, and a large number of students report that they can't swipe their ID cards to enter the station after arriving at the station, so they can only queue at the manual window, and many people miss the bus.

How to use the electronic ticket?

Spit it out, e-ticket is definitely the general trend, so it is necessary for us to know how to use it.

Brush card:

the identity card of the people's republic of china

Alien permanent residence identity card

Residence permit for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents

mainland travel permit for hong kong and macao residents

Mainland travel permit for taiwan residents and other readable documents.

Children's ticket: you need to take the manual channel.

Brush the phone:

At 12306 app >: order > my ticket > two-dimensional code ticket inspection, but only the tickets of users with account number 12306 can be viewed.

It is worth mentioning that tickets purchased or bought on other platforms can be viewed, returned and changed in "My Tickets" (only for stations that support electronic tickets). The fly in the ointment is that the ticket gate information is not displayed, but there is seat information, which is somewhat puzzling.

How to query the ticket gate information in 12306?

Order > Paid > Find the corresponding order > Details. You can find the QR code, seats and ticket gate information, but it does not support third-party platform orders, but Ctrip and others can already display the ticket gate after purchasing tickets. In any case, 12306 has been improving, which is worthy of recognition.

What if the mobile phone doesn't work? Find a machine called "seat self-service terminal" in the waiting room, or you can swipe your ID card to print out the order details, which will have detailed ticket information. You make it sound as if you can use this machine without a mobile phone. )

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Which stations can use electronic tickets?

The official statement is that "Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Chongqing, Shandong, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan and other places will add hundreds of e-ticket pilot stations." If the station supports electronic tickets, the system will prompt you accordingly after purchasing tickets, but it is recommended that friends who buy student tickets leave enough time as far as possible.

To sum up, the best use posture of e-ticket is: swipe your ID card to enter and leave the station, keep SMS or order screenshots to check the ticket gate and seat.

But in general, e-tickets are still quite unfriendly to the elderly or groups unfamiliar with the Internet, and there seems to be no good solution for Tie Zong under this trend. For example, when its official WeChat explained the use of electronic tickets, it was faced with "What if I can't buy tickets online?" "The answer to this question is:

You can go to the ticket window of the station or the nearest ticket office and buy train tickets by face-to-face communication with the staff. I wonder, how many tickets are left after "face-to-face communication"?

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