Preiserhöhung Deutschlandticket - Price Change of Deutschlandticket 2027

0. Introduction: Price Change and New Requirements

Due to the upcoming price adjustment for the Deutschlandticket starting from 01.01.2027, the price of the Deutschlandticket will change to 66,80€ per month. This has been decided by the federal and state transport ministers. (Deutschlandticket Job 63,46€ per month)
Therefor a new product variant needs to be introduced into the mobilitybox. The current Deutschlandticket product variants will no longer be supported to ensure that users use the new product.
It will be a requirement to collect correct German Postal Codes (5-digit numbers) or in case of foreign customers, the country code needs to be provided.

1. What happens?

• new Deutschlandticket products will be introduced early November
  can be bought from 02.11.2026 and activated from 01.01.2027
• old Deutschlandticket products can be bought and activated until 31.12.2026
• active subscriptions will automatically convert to the new product for the january cycle and can be reactivated normaly
  

2. Deutschlandticket Product

Old Product ID:

mobilitybox-product-9e82a4eb-0cc5-4a07-b629-cf2b9ea8fa56

New Product ID:

will be announced early November

3. What needs to be done?

Active subscriptions will automatically switch to the new products when reordering for January 2027.

In November and December, customers should be informed during the checkout process that subscriptions purchased at the old price (63€) are only valid until the end of December 2026 and can only be activated for December.

If a customer wishes to purchase a ticket for January 2027 or later, the Order request has to be made with the new product id and the new price of 66,80€ will already apply. Tickets purchased at the new price can only be used starting from January 2027.

Postal Codes and Country Codes

In order to comply with public transit regulation, it is still necessary for activating a ticket, to provide postal codes (5 digits long) or in case of foreign customers a country code.

Requirements for the country code:

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 Format (2 capital letters)
• DE for Germany is not allowed

4. Fastlink Changes

Fastlink will update the products automatically. There will be the new product in checkout from 01.01.2027 and in December the customers will see a notice stating out, that there will be a new product and they are able to buy the new product if they want to use it in January.

If you want to skip this notice, you can add a new flag to the URL. For more details, see Fastlink Implementation

There will be a notice on the subscription manage page which shows the price change.

5. Testing

There is a separate Deutschlandticket test product that can only be ordered in the test environment. It switches to successor products according to the schedule below, allowing you to test the same product transition as for the regular Deutschlandticket at the turn of the year.

The relationships between the products can be retrieved via the product attributes recommended_successor_is and recommended_successor_of.

For reorders, the new product is selected automatically. You can verify the selected product by checking the product_id on the subscription cycle.

6. Summary of Changes

• New Product: A new Deutschlandticket product introduced with the updated pricing.
• Checkout recommended_successor_is of products
• automatic switch to new products for reorders of January Tickets
• display of customer notice about the upcoming price change and validity during November and December.