Gone are the days of going to the railway station and standing in long queues! Booking trains tickets online is easier than ever before with the introduction of the IRCTC site. It’s not just train tickets – you can book hotels, tour packages, catering services on trains, special tourist trains and much more. Though the IRCTC site is infamously known for its low speed, there’s no doubt that convenience outweighs the disadvantages and we are ever dependent on the site.
Now’s the happy news! Do you know you can actually get discounts on booking train tickets online? Yes, when you book train tickets in IRCTC using specific bank’s cards or mobile wallets, you can avail some good offers! You get the satisfaction of purchasing your tickets at a low price. Check out various ways you can avail the discounts.
Get Discounts on Booking Train Tickets Online
1.ICICI Bank
Use the Pockets App by ICICI Bank and get 10% cashback on booking your tickets! You can avail Cashbacks up to Rs.500 and get your tickets very cheap.
Here’s how you do it:
- Download ICICI Pockets App, create and add money to your wallet.
- Login to the IRCTC site or the mobile app ‘IRCTC Connect’.
- Book your tickets and proceed to payments. Select Credit Card as the option.
- Enter your Pockets wallet number, CVV and valid-to-date provided in the app to make the payment.
2. Paytm Wallet
Now, IRCTC has added Paytm officially as a payment option on IRCTC sites for booking tickets. We all know that Paytm is known for its amazing cashback deals. The best part of having the Paytm wallet is that payments are quicker. Forget the days when you had to wait endlessly with bated breath for the transaction to happen. With Paytm, you can book tickets in a matter of minutes.
- Paytm comes up with Cashbacks on all ticket bookings like Bus, Train etc. You can check them out and Select the Paytm wallet as a means of payment to avail them.
- Also sometime back, Paytm was offering Cashbacks like Rs.50 for adding Rs. 1000 to your Paytm wallet. When you add money and then book tickets, indirectly you are making use of such discounts. Nice, isn’t it?
3. Mobikwik Wallet
Another wallet service which helps you pay for your IRCTC tickets and has good offers is Mobikwik. It’s always raining good offers in Mobikwik, without doubt, you get the best Cashbacks here.
How to do it.
- Ensure you have sufficient Mobikwik balance when you begin the transaction.
- Login to the IRCTC connect app and book your ticket.
- You will get Cashbacks up to 5% or Cashbacks on convenience fees etc.
Simple steps to be followed which reduces the burden of paying a full price! Besides Cashbacks, wallets like Mobikwik enable quick transaction in what is an otherwise slow site.
4.IRCTC SBI Platinum Card
If you purchase this IRCTC SBI Platinum Card for a minimum fee of Rs.500 and an annual fee of Rs.300, you get to enjoy a host of privileges.
- Spend Rs.500 on purchase of the card and get 350 reward points.
- Buy tickets on irctc.co.in for AC and earn 10% as Reward Points.
- For every Rs.125 spent on irctc.co.in you get rewards points.
- All these reward points can be redeemed on further train ticket purchases.
What’s more, you get to purchase cheaper air tickets and hotel bookings from the IRCTC site using this card. Great, right?
5.HDFC BANK
Use the HDFC Credit Card to book IRCTC tickets for no minimum value and get Rs.500 ShopClues Voucher. Here’s how to book train tickets online with HDFC Credit card and avail this
- Login to irctc site and book your ticket.
- Use Credit Card as the payment option and pay through your HDFC credit card.
- You Shopclues Gift Voucher worth Rs.500 will be sent to you.
- Use it before March 31st, 2106 on shopping at Shopclues.
Hope you are able to use these methods and purchase your train tickets online with good deals. Happy Journey in advance! Haven’t used mobile wallets yet? Now is the time to do so. Just sign up for Mobikwik, add money and start using it right away. You will be amazed at the Mobikwik deals you get for each purchase.