Octopus lets Hong Kong commuters use NFC to link their transit card to their mobile phone

Octopus Cards Limited (OCL) has launched a series of enhancements to the Octopus App to provide simple, easy-to-use and customer-centric services that cater for evolving customer needs. These include a re-designed Octopus App user interface with enhanced features, enabling customers to manage their daily expenses easily by checking their past three months' spending records in their Octopus. To empower O! ePay users when shopping online, OCL will also launch a virtual prepaid card.

The new Octopus App user interface not only features much easier and clearer navigation providing a brand-new mobile experience, a registered user can also check the past three months' spending records of his/her Octopus via the O! ePay account – a service which also applies to iOS users and should be particularly welcomed by them as they can now instantly access their recent Octopus spending records anywhere any time without the need of an NFC device.

Moreover, customers can check their monthly public transport expenses under the Public Transport Fare Subsidy Scheme, which the Government will launch in January 2019 and can collect the subsidy via the Octopus App*.