Apple Wallet: Support for WC vouchers yes, Germany ticket app (still) no
The company Sanifair, which belongs to Tank & Rast, has brought the toilet voucher into Apple's map memory. This is still pending for the Deutschlandticket app.
Sanifair: Now ready for modern times.
(Image: Tank & Rast)
Finally, (almost) no more paper: in future, anyone who wants to go to the bathroom at Sanifair will be able to pull out their iPhone or Apple Watch and use the integrated wallet to overcome access control. Meanwhile, another popular iPhone application, Hansecom's official Deutschlandticket app, still lacks the long-awaited support for Apple's digital card storage.
It doesn't work without cardboard
The parent company of the Sanifair toilet chain, Autobahn Tank & Rast Gruppe GmbH & Co KG, has further optimized its digital infrastructure and now allows the so-called Sanifair value voucher to be "conveniently stored and redeemed in the Apple Wallet". The improvement follows similar support for the Android equivalent Google Wallet. "With the extension to iOS devices, all common mobile devices are now supported," Tank & Rast is pleased to announce.
Confusingly, however, this is currently still combined with a piece of cardboard. This is because when the toilet voucher is purchased from the machine, it is delivered to the customer on dead wood. The QR code printed on it is then scanned and prepared for the Apple Wallet via a website called qr.sanifair.de, where the receipt can then be digitized and deposited with a click. The piece of cardboard can be recycled. However, Tank & Rast is already aware of this waste: they are working on "no longer printing out the voucher when it is issued using a QR code on request". The toilet access should then end up directly in the "digital wallet".
"No technical reasons"
While Sanifair, which is one of the big players in the facilitation industry, has embraced the Apple Wallet, another popular app that actually belongs in the card store is still struggling: the official Deutschlandticket app from Hansecom, a service provider for numerous public transport companies, has still not managed to support the Apple Wallet – although this had been hoped for since 2023.
The company admitted to Mac & i back in January that there were "no technical reasons" for this. "The provision of the Deutschlandticket in the wallets is an important feature that we will offer in the Deutschlandticket app in the future. Implementation is planned for 2024," it said at the time. There are still three months left in the year.
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