Contactless

It’s tapping your enabled debit or credit card or smart phone to pay without inserting or swiping. 

OCTA accepts contactless payments made using an American Express, Discover, MasterCard or Visa debit or credit card, or mobile wallet-enabled smartphones or smartwatches.

Contactless cards have a wave-like symbol on the front or back that looks like a wi-fi symbol turned on its side. This tells you that you can pay for purchases by tapping your card at authorized payment terminals, such as OCTA’s onboard validator. 

If you have more than one debit or credit card linked to your mobile wallet, your fare will be charged to the card you selected as your default. If you want to use a different card, you must designate it as your default card prior to boarding. 

While you will not be charged for trips taken after you have earned your daily cap, you are still required to tap your contactless payment method as proof of payment. You will not be charged for that trip.

Adults ride for $2.00 per trip. However, if you use contactless payment, your daily fare will be capped at $5.00. This means you can ride all day for just $5.00 regardless of how many trips you take! If you pay using the Wave card or Wave mobile app, your monthly fare will also be capped, and you will receive additional benefits.

Yes. To track your progress towards a daily cap, create a Wave account at wave.octa.net and link the contactless card you will be using to your account. 

No, you must consistently use the same payment method to earn your daily cap and free rides. Once you enter your physical card number into your smartphone, your device will assign a new tokenized digital account number to keep your payment information private. Because of this new number, the system recognizes the payment method as a new card number. 

No, only regular adult fare is available with contactless payments. To qualify for senior and disabled fares, you must register to qualify for the discounted fare, create a Wave account and use either a Wave card or Wave mobile for your payment method. 

No, each rider must use a different debit or credit card. Contactless payment can only be used for one rider at a time. If you want to purchase rides for multiple riders, you can create a Wave account and use either a Wave card or Wave mobile to purchase and use a group ticket.

Children aged 5 and under ride free. Youth aged 6 to 18 can ride free with the Youth Ride Free pass, but this pass must be registered in advance.