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| Location | Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Invercargill, Nelson, Northland, Otago, Taranaki, Waikato, Manawatū–Whanganui |
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| Launched | November 2019 |
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| Manager | Bee Card Regional Consortium |
| Currency | NZD ($299 maximum load) |
| Stored-value | Pay as you go |
| Auto recharge | Auto Top Up (available for registered cards) |
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| Website | beecard |
The Bee Card is an electronic fare payment smart card that is used on bus services in ten regions of New Zealand, along with Queenstown Ferries and the Te Huia train service between Hamilton (Waikato) and Auckland. It is used as a tag-on tag-off card on buses, with paper tickets remaining available for use for each of the individual region's public transport network systems.
First launched in late 2019 in Northland, it has since expanded to regions including Manawatū–Whanganui, Invercargill, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Nelson, Hawke's Bay and Otago with Taranaki switching to the Bee Card in late 2020, ending the main rollout. Gisborne's GizzyBus was added to the system in 2022, along with Queenstown Ferries. It also replaced the separate pre-existing fare card systems that were used by individual regional councils such as the BUSIT card (Waikato) and the GoCard (Otago).