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I've always just paid at the booths on french motorways but this time I'm going by myself so it will be a hassle being on the wrong side of the van.

I'll had a quick google and it looks like you can set up an account where number plate recognition is used to charge your account.  It then either charges your bank/card or you go online to pay.  The first result that comes up is Sanef.  

Anyone done this? Does Sanef cover all tolls?  

Would save some hassle if it works

 

 


 
Posted : 07/07/2025 8:25 pm
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I'm doing it right now. Driven down through France using a emovis tag. https://www.emovis-tag.co.uk/

 

Means I can go through the "t" lanes at each toll without having to pay 

You get billed directly to your bank account monthly. 

Tag costs £5 per year with a £20 deposit.

I've had one for about 10 years now, they are great, especially if you are driving by yourself in a British car!


 
Posted : 07/07/2025 8:35 pm
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Thanks

Looks like the numberplate recognition system is just for free flow motorways and I will not be using those.  

Not got time to get a tagin my usual disorganised  way so I'll be holding everyone up whilst I faff about paying on the wrong side


 
Posted : 07/07/2025 8:37 pm
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Posted by: olddog

I'll be holding everyone up whilst I faff about paying on the wrong side

I wonder if a selfie stick would work ?? (slightly 🤣 )


 
Posted : 07/07/2025 9:47 pm
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https://singletrackmag.com/forum/postid/13568507/


 
Posted : 07/07/2025 10:14 pm
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Emovis Tag here too. Works great, never had a problem with it. From memory, I think you can pay for next day delivery if you're in a hurry................Works both on Toll and NumberPlate recognition routes. Some car parks too.


 
Posted : 08/07/2025 1:44 pm
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Just back from a trip to France, I've had an emovis tag for years. It works well - particularly like the speedy lanes which open fast enough for you not to have to slow down below 30kph. It is no cheaper at all - in fact its a tad more expensive as you've a monthly charge for each month you actively use the tag. You get billed a month in arears which is handy. 


 
Posted : 08/07/2025 1:55 pm
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Emovis is very expensive - always the most expensive way to do this in fact. 
All the tags work the same, all the providers have pretty much the same range of "tariffs", and we (i.e. people on this thread) all need the same one - the one for holidaymakers. That's all emovis resell.  Better to identify the provider that's offering the best promo when you take the plunge.
At the moment, that's the fulli nomade.  If sortcode/account doesn't work, IBAN should:  https://www.fulli.com/en/tollbadge-offers


 
Posted : 08/07/2025 4:07 pm
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brilliant thanks for that savoyad


 
Posted : 08/07/2025 4:29 pm
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Just back from Le Mans - luckily all the cars in our group had a passenger but a tag is the way to go regardless.

I've bookmarked the above suggestions ready for the next trip.

(off topic - coming back to the UK after driving on the 99% lovely French roads for a few days was quite depressing!)


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 8:18 am
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Too late for this trip but yeah I'm defo getting a tag before I go next time and thanks for the shopping around advice and link to the deal 

 

 


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 9:57 am
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Too late for this trip but yeah I'm defo getting a tag before I go next time and thanks for the shopping around advice and link to the deal 

 

 


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 9:58 am
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Funnily enough, contacted Emovis as they sent an email about ANPR before Christmas. Sounds like the free-flow ones will still have gantries for the tags, but at the moment they're only on certain autoroutes. Everything else is barriers.

I might have hallucinated this but I thought some toll booths had right-hand pay stations?


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 10:10 am
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Posted by: ratherbeintobago

I might have hallucinated this but I thought some toll booths had right-hand pay stations?

Yes, there are a few near Calais


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 10:56 am
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i moved from Emovis to Bip&Go.  It's cheaper (monthly and yearly charges) and it works in Italy as well.  i had to set up a Euro account on my Wise account and give them the IBAN, but works smootly.  Also, WISE (bit like Revolute) is brilliant for holding different currencies and stashing money away.


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 11:43 am
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When do you go?., I ordered a replacement emovis tag and it arrived next working day.


 
Posted : 09/07/2025 2:15 pm
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On the other hand. My Bip&Go tag took 2 weeks to be delivered. 
To be fair that is their quoted delivery time to the UK. 


 
Posted : 10/07/2025 6:32 am
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Posted by: Sui

i moved from Emovis to Bip&Go.  It's cheaper

 

What's the difference? I'm currently on Emovis but we're not off to France again this year so could look for other options.

 

 


 
Posted : 10/07/2025 9:14 am
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Posted by: Speeder

I'm currently on Emovis but we're not off to France again this year so could look for other options.

I thought the issue with the non-Emovis tags was that they don’t work without an EU bank account?

A couple of questions - has anyone used a tag on the free flow motorways yet, and does it beep as you go under the gantry as in Portugal?

Also, how long does it take for Emovis transactions to come through on the account?


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 1:26 pm
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Also, how long does it take for Emovis transactions to come through on the account

It tends to be about 6 weeks after the event if I recall correctly, they email ahead of time to warn you of the expected DD coming out too. 


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 4:32 pm
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I just drove back from Morzine last Saturday and having a tag saved me possibly hours at some of the busier junctions.

There were literally hundreds of stationary cars queued up at the regular booths and I drove straight past them to the tag only gates. Absolute lifesaver on a busy day in 32 degree heat.

I've been using Emovis because it's easy and was recommended on here. I'll look into other options next year.


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 4:37 pm
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It tends to be about 6 weeks after the event if I recall correctly, they email ahead of time to warn you of the expected DD coming out too.

Sorry - wasn’t clear. They show up in the account before the DD goes out, I remember from last year it took a few days but nothing from yesterday yet.


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 6:13 pm
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I suppose there is an element of luck but I've just driven to Italy and back via Chamonix. Don't think we spent more than ten minutes waiting for tolls in total. That was maybe 25 toll booths various times of day. Only a handful had a queue at all and never more than four cars and a couple of minutes max.


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 6:17 pm
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We used fuli one linked to up above, not been billed yet, but very pleased 

We drove to la Rochelle- about 7 hours, there were only a couple of booths we saw with queues, and it was great breezing through the 30 lane, seeing how fast i could push it!


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 6:38 pm
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I don't know what you lot are worried about. I spent more time queueing for the Dartford crossing once (it doesn't even have toll booths) than I've spent queueing in over 35 years of living in and driving around France. I quite like relaxing for a few seconds and the toilets after the booths (that are more time efficient than stopping at services) are more safely accessed from a right hand booth lane.

With the advent of no contact credit card payment cars go through a barrier in about 10-15 seconds (maybe 30 if you haven't wound down the window, don't have the card ready and hunt in your wallet for the credit card) so the queues are getting ever shorter and faster moving.

A mildly amusing French lesson for you all from Arte:

I used the first French booth free one that works like the Dartford crossing recently: smart phone payment or pay with a credit card at a terminal at the services.


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 7:47 pm
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We drove west to east from Chatelerault  a couple of days ago. En+route there's a 'Flux libre' peage system that's reliant on ANPR. No toll-booths at all, just overhead gantries with a lot of cameras. Payment online is dead easy. 


 
Posted : 18/08/2025 10:07 pm
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Recently applied for Emovis but their postcode system via Equifax doesn't recognize our address. As a result they want photos of my driver's license, utility bill and credit card statement.

Looks like MrsRNP is going to be sticking her arm out!


 
Posted : 19/08/2025 4:06 am
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Posted by: ratherbeintobago

Also, how long does it take for Emovis transactions to come through on the account

 

You get billed monthly, but the transactions appear on the account immediately. 

The fees for my journeys in July are being taken from my account at the end of August. 

 

 


 
Posted : 19/08/2025 6:40 am
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I've just driven to the alps and back on my own and I just got out of the car, walked round, paid and got back in the car. Really wasn't that much of a pain.


 
Posted : 19/08/2025 7:20 am
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Used a similar one in Chile - very alarming when the beep goes off and you wonder if you are about to get a heavy fine. Real improvement on winding down the window continuously.


 
Posted : 19/08/2025 10:01 am
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Posted by: edd

I've just driven to the alps and back on my own and I just got out of the car, walked round, paid and got back in the car. Really wasn't that much of a pain.

Drove to the Alps a couple of times with my daughter, when she was small. She was in charge of toll payment. I enjoyed the looks of puzzlement on other drivers faces when seeing a car apparently being driven by a 10 year old. (Not as much fun as driving a 2CV peeping out through the ventilation flap, giving the impression that the car was driverless)


 
Posted : 19/08/2025 11:06 am
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Today’s new experience - using a Liber-t in a car park.

You'd assume you drive up to the barrier, the tag beeps, up goes the barrier and in you go, with a repeat on exit, but no. You take a ticket, and when you put it in the machine at the exit barrier, then it beeps and up goes the barrier.

 


 
Posted : 23/08/2025 2:53 pm
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I relented and sent Emovis my inside leg measurements, tag dispatched.


 
Posted : 23/08/2025 8:38 pm
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Posted by: ratherbeintobago

Posted by: Speeder

I'm currently on Emovis but we're not off to France again this year so could look for other options.

I thought the issue with the non-Emovis tags was that they don’t work without an EU bank account?

Have been using BipnGo for the last few years and works well, using a Starling account for payment as you can set up a Euro account alongside your GBP one and easily transfer between the two accounts. The tag payments are on Direct Debit from the Euro account. You only pay a monthly fee when it is used and payments are taken the month after.

Posted by: Speeder

A couple of questions - has anyone used a tag on the free flow motorways yet, and does it beep as you go under the gantry as in Portugal?

Last week we travelled from Normandy down to the Vendée, the A13 (where we joined just after the A29) is currently undergoing free-flow conversion with the gantries now in place on several sections, the BipnGo did 'Beep' just after we passed under them.

HTH

 


 
Posted : 24/08/2025 8:44 am
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Anyone know what it means when a Liber-T beeps three times?


 
Posted : 28/08/2025 11:20 am
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Posted by: Speeder
A couple of questions - has anyone used a tag on the free flow motorways yet, and does it beep as you go under the gantry as in Portugal?

I had a hire car i portugal last autumn and it beeped when you went under the gantry.


 
Posted : 28/08/2025 12:45 pm
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Emovis here too.

 

Some of the motorway around Calais is no free-flow, the booths & barriers have gone, but it's badly signed. We wouldn't have known if the tag hadn't beeped as we joined/exited.


 
Posted : 28/08/2025 1:56 pm
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Anyone had this happen and have an outcome, a colleague just drove back from Provence, got home found out there credit card had been cloned, so it was cancelled along with the fraudulent transactions.

But the toll fee has not yet appeared, what is likely to happen to this payment?


 
Posted : 28/08/2025 2:46 pm
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Posted by: mrmo

I had a hire car i portugal last autumn and it beeped when you went under the gantry

Yes. Oddly (or perhaps not) I gather Portuguese tolls are ANPR if you have a non-Portuguese car but if you’ve got Portuguese plates you need a tag.


 
Posted : 28/08/2025 3:12 pm
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I have a fulli tag, I can see the tolls in the app now, wondering when they will be billed? travel was mid august If that matters.


 
Posted : 31/08/2025 1:48 pm
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Fulli travel goes on the invoice which is issued (online) around the 10th of the following month.  And the amount is then debited a few days later on the 15-17th of that same month.
So it should be that August travel which is currently just visible but not invoiced moves onto an invoice on 10th September, which you will then pay (automatically) on 15th-17th September.


 
Posted : 03/09/2025 2:23 pm
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thanks,


 
Posted : 03/09/2025 3:15 pm

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