Paying for a vehicle you follow

Step 1

Every private vehicle is set to Free or Paid by whoever runs it. The setting is called Service payment. Free is what an office or a staff transport usually chooses: you follow the vehicle and there is no payment screen at all.

Step 2

Paid means a monthly amount per subscriber. The operator sets it, and may set a different amount for different people on the same vehicle, so there is no MageRide price to quote you — the app shows your amount before you owe it.

Step 3

Your subscriptions live under My subscriptions in the menu. Each card shows the vehicle, whether it is Paid or Free, the amount and the date it is next due, a Pay button, a history button and a small cross for unsubscribing.

Step 4

The billing cycle is either the first of the month or the anniversary of the day you joined — subscribe on 5 June and the next payment is due on 6 July. The card says which one applies to you.

Step 5

Tap Pay and choose how. LankaQR opens your banking app with the amount already filled in; you can scan the operator’s LankaQR code instead; or you can make an ordinary bank transfer and attach a photograph of the slip.

Step 6

A transfer shows as awaiting verification until the operator confirms it at their end. Cash goes to whoever collects it, and only the owner can mark it received — after which your card says Paid and the payment appears in your history.

Step 7

The history button lists every month: the date, the method, the amount and where it stands.

Step 8

Unsubscribing is that small cross. Confirm it and you lose sight of the vehicle almost immediately; coming back means sending a fresh request and waiting for it to be accepted again, as in chapter 5.