TFI GO

National-Transport-Authority

About this app

The TFI Go App allows you to buy tickets for participating Transport for Ireland bus services and participating commercial bus operators directly from your phone. Your ticket is downloaded to the TFI Go App and can be used to travel straight away. There’s no need for printing, simply activate your ticket before each journey and show it to the driver while boarding.

To avail of discounted Young Adult and Student fares a valid TFI Young Adult or Student Leap Card must be shown to the driver when boarding.

Features:
• Single, two Journey and ten Journey tickets available for Adults and Young Adults and Students
• One day and seven-day zonal tickets available in cities.
• Search for a ticket between your origin and destination, or choose the zone you are travelling in.
• Buy and download tickets directly to your phone.
• Save a payment card for faster future purchases.
• Tickets valid for use up to 28 days after purchase.
• Search for and save your favourite Operators.

Ratings and reviews

A good idea, badly executed. For Bus Eireann, it is very difficult to choose the ticket to purchase unless you firstly know know the number of the route you want to travel on. Knowing the stop names isn't rely enough. And it doesn't list all available routes For example I could buy a ticket for popular 226 to/from Cork Airport, but the 225 did not appear in the list of routes - so I ended up paying cash to the driver. By now the buses should take contactless cards like the rest of the world.

As a necessary service, it does its job fine. As a functional app, it's held together with strings and wishes. If you make the mistake of selecting your route, start and end points before your ticket type (single, double, 10 journey), then you'll have to go through re-selecting the route and your destination. In addition, it's unimaginably slow for any single action and while you're intended to only sign in once a week, there are times I've had to sign in two or three times a day.

TFI GO doesn't list all the Bus Éireann routes listed in TFI Live. TFI Go only allows purchase of one individual ticket. Uninstalled and just went to the Bus Éireann website where I could plan and buy tickets for two people on one site. Much easier.