How to pay for Vexere bus/train tickets without a local bank card in Vietnam?

If you cannot pay in advance, an August 2026 message suggests arriving at the station early — about 30–45 minutes before departure — and paying for the ticket before the trip.

Vexere is an aggregator of Vietnamese domestic carriers where you can find tickets for sleeper buses, trains and flights. According to an August 2026 guide, you can pay with a foreign bank card; by asking a Vietnamese person to pay for you on the site or via QR and giving them cash; via QR code in one of the listed stores; by choosing 'pay on site / to the driver'; or through local money exchangers.

A UnionPay card is a bank card, not a QR money transfer, so a QR scanner will not accept it. In August 2026 travelers advised choosing the 'international card' payment option on Vexere. The booking form also asks for your full name in Latin letters.

In a July 2026 experience, tickets had previously been paid by QR code, but when choosing seats in the mobile app only bank-card payment was offered; the traveler guessed the website might allow paying later by QR. When you pick a bus, the app shows pick-up and drop-off points, bus class and seat map, with QR payment at the final step.

The Vexere app offers cash payment to the driver — tick this payment option in the filters. As an alternative, in June 2026 travelers suggested asking your hotel reception to buy the tickets and paying them in cash.

The app has a 'pay at a chain store' option: choose it, go to the checkout of one of the listed stores and pay in cash (September 2026). In June 2026 travelers noted that the app accepts QR payment and that in Nha Trang itself there are places to buy tickets offline.