Digital vignette

For a long time, these small, colorful stickers were used in austria as proof of payment, stuck on the front of the windshield. As a sign that the duty has been paid, the digital vignette is also available today. We clarify the most important questions.

difference: digital vignette& digital road toll

  • The sticker or digital vignette pays for the compulsory vignette in austria. The different types of vignette are designed for use over several days, months or years.
  • Irrespective of the vignette, a special toll is payable on certain stretches of road – the digital road toll. This is the case, for example, on the Brenner, tauern and pyhrn highways as well as in the arlberg and karawanken tunnels.
  • Provisions for lorries: those who drive with a trailer do not have to pay a toll sticker. However, other restrictions are possible, for example in alpine tunnels or on mountain passes.
  • regulations for motor homes: vehicles over 3.5 tons – which includes all trucks, buses and heavy motor homes – pay a distance-based go toll.

With the digital vignette and digital road toll, you can pass through the toll plazas without having to stop. you drive there through a specially marked lane, which is controlled by video.

Instead of paying the fee at the toll booths, drivers who think ahead can purchase their vignettes buy online 18 days before start of journey or obtain valid vignettes directly at cooperating sales points.

How and where to buy the digital vignette?

  1. Decide on the start page of the store for a vignette type that suits you: 10-day, 2-month or annual vignette. There are also subscription vignettes for frequent drivers, but not in the app.
  2. indicate the type of vehicle (car or motorcycle) you will be using, the country of registration, your license plate number and the desired start date of the vignette’s validity.
  3. Enter your e-mail address for sending and select a desired payment method.
    Note: the payment methods via app may also differ from those in the online store.

Electronic vignette: valid on 18. Day after purchase

Unfortunately, those who buy the digital vignette online cannot use it immediately. More precisely, only on 18. Day after the purchase. The answer to the question why this is so lies in consumer protection. as a buyer, you enjoy the 14-day right of return. So that you don’t buy the vignette, use it for 14 days and then return it, it becomes valid only 18 days after purchase. In this period the three-day postal route is mathematically taken into account.

When is my vignette valid immediately?

The following two options will help you to get digital vignettes effective immediately:

Possibility 1: being an entrepreneur

As a private person, you cannot waive the 14-day right of withdrawal in order to make the vignette valid immediately, but as an entrepreneur and for business purposes, the consumer protection period does not apply. The digital vignette is valid immediately.

Option 2: purchase directly on site

Alternatively, you can also buy the digital vignette at the sales points of oAMTC, ARBo and ADAC, at various gas stations and kiosks as well as at the ASFINAG toll booths. The toll service provider has also created an online overview of all sales points.

If you buy the digital vignette via ASFINAG or its sales partners at the toll station or a vending machine, the 18-day period does not apply and the vignette is valid immediately. Since 2018, in addition to the sticker vignettes and toll cards, the digital vignette has also been available at all participating ADAC offices throughout Germany. According to ASFINAG there are approx. 36 automats.

Austria toll free routes

  • A1 westautobahn (border crossing walserberg to salzburg-nord), land salzburg
  • A12 inntal freeway (border crossing kiefersfelden to kufstein-south), tyrol
  • A14 (border crossing horbranz to hohenems), vorarlberg
  • A7 (muhlkreisautobahn, new danube bridge in linz- still under construction), upper austria
  • A26 (linzer westring – still under construction), upper austria

These routes in austria are toll free. © allianz direct

Advantages of the digital vignette

  • No more sticking and scratching: the vignette is bound to the license plate and valid digitally.
  • purchase possible at any time and from any location: around the clock you can buy a new vignette within the european economic area (EEA) and switzerland.
  • A vignette for license plate owners: one vignette is valid for up to three vehicles, as it is license plate related. "one vignette per car" is thus a thing of the past.
  • Enough with replacement vignettesif a window was broken, a replacement vignette was needed. Even the replacement of costs had to be taken care of – these expenses are omitted with the digital version.

How does the digital vignette work??

Now you already know that the electronic version is bound to the license plate. depending on the type of vignette, it is valid for different periods of time. But how do you check validity your current vignette? Quite simple: via a publicly accessible register – the so-called vignette registry.

What is the cost of a digital vignette 2020?

the price for the annual vignette for cars is 91,10 euro. the pickerl-price for two months is 27,40 euro and the 10-day-vignette costs 9,40 euro. Motorcyclists pay 36.20 euros for the annual vignette, 13.70 euros for the two-month vignette and 5.40 euros for the ten-day vignette.

Status: 07/2020, source: https://shop.Asfinag.At/

How is the digital vignette controlled?

The answer is: electronically. One speaks of an automatic vignette control. According to a press release, eight mobile "electronic eyes" monitor compliance with the vignette requirement. The eight mobile cameras support the spot checks in a weekly to ten-day rhythm throughout Germany at different locations.

And those who refuse to use the vignette can be charged a lot for using the freeway and expressway network in austria without a valid vignette: a replacement toll of 120 euros or a fine of 300 euros or more will be due. Excuses like "I didn’t know about the vignette obligation in austria" or "I thought it was free of vignette until the first exit" are already known by our neighbors and are not worthwhile.

We hope you feel well informed now and wish you a good trip!

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