Milan ATM Travel Pass: Buy It in the App, €22 Under 27 (Sept 2026)

There are a lot of odd guides online telling you to email someone, fill in a pile of forms, or go buy your pass in person at an ATM Point. Buying a travel pass is much simpler than that.

We did go and queue at the Cadorna ATM Point, and the security guard handed us a booking slip for several days later. Queueing for a ticket to queue is pretty funny in hindsight.

Since that slot was so far out, I went and booked an earlier one in the app instead.

ATM Point booking in the app — The slot I booked in the app after seeing how far out the in-person number was. We cancelled it once we realised the app sells the pass directly

You only need three things

Your tax code (if you do not have one yet, start here)
The official ATM app (iOS / Android)
Your address in Italy

With those you can buy the Under 27 monthly pass straight from the app.

What Under 27 means

As long as you buy it before the day of your 27th birthday, your monthly pass is €22, which is a great deal. I would buy it the moment the tax code is sorted.

The system reads your date of birth out of the tax code, so if you are in range the Under 27 price simply shows up. No extra proof needed. I am apparently too old for it, so I pay the ordinary fare.

Fares (September 2026, Milan urban area Mi1 to Mi3)

Pass	Under 27	Ordinary	Over 65
Monthly	€22	€39	€32.50
Annual	€200	€330	€300
Weekly	€18.50 (any age)	€18.50	€18.50

A few things worth knowing:

Buying several months at once does not save you anything. In the app, 2 months Under 27 is €44 and 3 months is €66, which is just the monthly price multiplied out. Only the annual pass is genuinely discounted
The annual pass is the real bargain. €200 Under 27 works out under €17 a month, saving €64 against twelve monthly passes
The pass covers everything in Mi1 to Mi3: metro, trams, buses and the suburban trains

Under 27 monthly prices in the app — Under 27 fares in the app: €22 for one month, €44 for two, €66 for three. No discount for buying ahead

Annual pass price in the app — The ordinary annual pass at €330. Under 27 pays €200

Step by step

Register an account on the ATM website or in the app
Log in to the app
Tap Buy at the bottom, then Travel passes

The Buy tab in the ATM app — The Buy tab, then Travel passes

Choose Digital Card, so there is nothing to wait for in the post and no card to carry

Choosing Digital Card — Pick Digital Card. Note you cannot hold a physical and a digital card at once, so an existing physical card has to be converted

Fill in your details (tax code, photo and so on), using your address in Italy at the bottom
Once the virtual card exists, load a pass onto it. Since your tax code carries your date of birth, the app shows the Under 27 price automatically if you qualify
After paying, the card shows Available subscriptions and a Card active badge

The active card screen — Card active means you are done. This is also the screen you tap in with (card number and portrait redacted)

How to tap in

Tapping in is a slightly odd experience: open the app, tap Wallet, bring up that screen, and hold it against the reader at the gate. I find it reads more reliably with the screen facing the machine.

Verdict

The in-app flow is clear and quick, and it saves several trips to an ATM Point plus the booking wait. I had assumed a counter visit was mandatory, so I booked a slot in the app (the guard's in-person date was even later), and once it turned out the pass can be bought in the app outright, we cancelled and freed the slot for someone else.