Presto card

Presto card

Location	Greater Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa
Launched	Q4 2009
Technology	MiFare DESFire EV1[1]
Operator	Accenture
Manager	Metrolinx
Currency	CAD ($0.05 minimum load, $990 maximum load)
Stored-value	e-purse, period pass
Credit expiry	None
Auto recharge	Autoload
Validity	Brampton Transit Burlington Transit Durham Region Transit GO Transit Hamilton Street Railway MiWay Oakville Transit OC Transpo (Ottawa) Toronto Transit Commission Union Pearson Express York Region Transit
Retailed	Online Participating transit agencies
Website	prestocard.ca

The Presto card (stylized as PRESTO) is a contactless smart card automated fare collection system used on participating public transit systems in the province of Ontario, Canada, specifically in Greater Toronto, Hamilton, and Ottawa. Presto card readers were implemented on a trial basis from 25 June 2007 to 30 September 2008. Full implementation began in November 2009 and it was rolled out across rapid transit stations, railway stations, bus stops and terminals, and transit vehicles on eleven different transit systems.

A variant of the Presto card is the Presto ticket, introduced on 5 April 2019, which is a single-use paper ticket with an embedded chip. The Presto ticket can only be used for the services of the Toronto Transit Commission.^[2][3]

One of the 10 strategies of The Big Move, the GTHA's regional transportation plan, was to create an integrated transit fare system amongst the 10 public transit agencies in the GTHA. The Presto system was designed to support the use of one common method of fare payment on various participating public transit systems, comparable with other systems such as London's Oyster card and Hong Kong's Octopus card.^[4] Presto is an operating division of Metrolinx, the Ontario government agency that manages and integrates road transport and public transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).