11 Facts About Ticketer

Ticketer is the brand name for a range of electronic ticket machines provided by British company Corvia Ltd, primarily for usage on buses.

Ticketer was developed in the mid-2000s by two former employees of Wayfarer Transit Systems, a major supplier of public transport fare collection systems.

Ticketer they set up dealt with small, independent bus operators, many of which used Wayfarer machines but wanted a simpler system which was easier to upgrade and configure in-house.

In 2019, Ticketer acquired FARA, a transport ticketing company in the Nordics.

In 2020, Ticketer won a Queen's Awards for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

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Ticketer requires no depot infrastructure to run; instead, it is run as a cloud-based software as a service.

Since early 2017 Ticketer has fully supported contactless payment, and has been used on buses in order to introduce such technology.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ticketer added a passenger counting feature, allowing operators to limit the number of passengers on a bus as a social distancing measure.

In 2021, Ticketer piloted a road restriction alert feature, where the ticket machine alerts the driver about road restrictions such as low bridges, intended to help prevent bridge strikes.

Smaller version of the large system, Ticketer Compact, is designed for buses where passengers alight away from the driver.

Until Ticketer was launched, most bus companies used ticket machines from one of three rival companies: Metric Group Ltd's Almex system, the Wayfarer system of Parkeon, and Vix Technology's Vix-ERG system.