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It's easy, you just tap on at the driver to log the start of your journey and tap off at the other scanner before you get off.

You don't need to think about much else, because it's always the cheapest way of using the bus.

It charges you 10p initially as a pending charge, because First doesn't know what the end fare will be. A small pending charge is commonly used by businesses to charge to bank accounts when they don't know the full eventual price of something. It gives permission to continue charging later through the day.

Eventually First charges more from your account to make up the full fare So if you just complete a single trip, it charges you another £2.70, totalling a fare price of £2.80.

If you travel again that day, in the past you'd have had to pay another separate single fare. But the process will only charge you £2.20 for this second trip, as there's a daily fare cap of £5.

If you travel the same number of journeys every day that week, after three and a half days you basically rack up enough to hit the weekly cap (£18.50), and you're not charged for journeys made after that.

You should continue to tap your card though as this can be used as proof to show you're not fare dodging.