page_title: OV-chipkaart
section_title: Anonymous OV-chipkaart
hierarchical_section_title: OV-chipkaart / Types of cards / Anonymous OV-chipkaart
caption_attribution_description: English: Machine to top up the balance of OV-Chipcard purses or to pick up internet ordered products. Screen language set to English. These machines can be found at supermarkets or tobacco shops.
context_page_description: The OV-chipkaart is a contactless smart card system used for all public transport in the Netherlands. First introduced in the Rotterdam Metro in April 2005, it has subsequently been rolled out to other areas and travel modes. It fully replaced the national strippenkaart system for buses, trams, and metro trains in 2011, and the paper ticket system for rail travel in July 2014.
  The OV-chipkaart is available in disposable form and reusable versions.
context_section_description: The anonymous OV-chipkaart (Dutch: anonieme OV-chipkaart) is a reusable, credit-card-sized card for passengers who travel more frequently. It is sold at public transport ticket machines and service counters for a one-time fee, normally €7.50. Unlike the disposable version, it can be used as a stored-value card: users travel on pre-loaded credit and pay per kilometer. The credit balance (saldo) of the card is "topped up" at vending machines at stations or shops. It can be used on all modes of transport and with all transport operators immediately after loading credit. For travel on pre-loaded credit on NS trains, however, cards purchased at vending machines of other transport operators must first be activated once at an NS ticket machine by adding credit to the balance.
   An anonymous OV-chipkaart must have a minimum credit balance of €4 for travel on buses, trams and metros and €20 for trains in order to be able to "check in" at a ticket barrier or card reader at the beginning of the journey (which the system takes as a deposit during the journey). The appropriate journey price is calculated when checking out at the end of each journey. The card is transferable between persons, although only one person can use an anonymous OV-chipkaart at any one time.
  Anonymous cards can also be used to store a limited number of non-personalized travel products, such as one-hour or day passes for specific public transport systems. For example, the Amsterdam public transport operator GVB offers day passes valid for up to seven days which can be loaded on an anonymous card or purchased on a disposable card, but season tickets can be loaded only on a personal OV-chipkaart.
caption: Yellow vending machines, found at supermarkets or tobacco shops, to be used to top up OV-chipkaart credit.
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