# Voi referral code — £2.50 ride credit on sign-up

> Use the Voi UK referral link (token JLPQJMNPJQfcKKePcNQLMdJeIfHQNfOd) for £2.50 in ride credits on sign-up; the friend who invited you then earns £5.00 once you complete your first paid trip. Voi rents shared e-scooters and e-bikes via its app across roughly 20-plus UK towns and cities under the DfT trial. Credit is ride money, not cash, spent at your city's pay-as-you-go rate. The £5/£2.50 figures are from Voi's in-app Invite friends screen; the User Agreement confirms the first-trip trigger. Verified May 2026.

## Quick facts
- Canonical URL: https://honestcodes.co.uk/codes/voi
- Referral link: https://lqfa.adj.st/redeemReferral?adj_campaign=referral&adj_deep_link=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.voi.com%2FredeemReferral%3Fgiss%3DJLPQJMNPJQfcKKePcNQLMdJeIfHQNfOd&adj_label=JLPQJMNPJQfcKKePcNQLMdJeIfHQNfOd&adj_t=15ia4lhx&giss=JLPQJMNPJQfcKKePcNQLMdJeIfHQNfOd
- Code: `JLPQJMNPJQfcKKePcNQLMdJeIfHQNfOd`
- Bonus: £2.50 ride credit on sign-up
- Category: transport
- Status: live
- Last verified: 2026-05-30
- Eligible region: United Kingdom

## Benefit
Join Voi through this referral link and you receive £2.50 in ride credits on sign-up, applied automatically to your next Voi ride; the friend who invited you then receives £5.00 in ride credits once you complete your first paid trip. Voi runs rental e-scooters and e-bikes hired through its app, and credits are spent in-app at your city's pay-as-you-go rate — they are riding credit, not withdrawable cash. The £5/£2.50 figures come from Voi's own in-app Invite friends screen; Voi's UK User Agreement confirms the mechanics and timing but does not itself publish the amounts.

## Eligibility
New Voi customers only — Voi's User Agreement states referral codes apply only to an invited user's first ride and are not intended for existing users. To actually ride in the UK you must add a payment method, and a rental e-scooter requires you to be 18+ with at least a provisional UK driving licence carrying category Q entitlement; Voi rental e-bikes require you to be 16 or over (per Voi's User Agreement) and follow standard UK pedal-cycle (EAPC) rules — no licence. Rental e-scooters are legal only inside the DfT-supervised trial areas Voi operates in — riding a privately owned e-scooter in public remains illegal.

## How it works
1. Tap 'Join Voi' below — the referral is baked into the deep link (it carries a long 'giss' token, so there is no short code to type)
2. The link opens or installs the Voi app and attaches the referral to your new account; £2.50 in ride credits lands on sign-up
3. Add a payment method, then find a Voi e-scooter or e-bike on the in-app map in a city where Voi operates
4. Take your first paid trip — your credit draws down automatically at your city's pay-as-you-go rate
5. Once your first paid trip completes, the friend who invited you receives £5.00 in ride credits, added automatically to their Voi account

## About Voi

Voi is the trading name of **Voi Technology AB**, a Swedish shared-micromobility operator founded in **August 2018** and headquartered in Stockholm. It was the first company to launch shared e-scooters in Europe and now rents both e-scooters and e-bikes through its own app. Per Voi's 2024 sustainability and full-year reporting, it runs around **110,000 vehicles across 100+ towns and cities in 12 countries**, has served more than **8 million riders** and over **300 million rides**, and reported its first full year of profitability in 2024 on turnover of roughly **€133 million**. The UK arm trades as **Voi Technology UK Ltd** (company no. 12616585, incorporated 21 May 2020).

In the UK, Voi is one of the larger operators by ride volume and runs about two-thirds of England's rental e-scooter trials, in many towns as the sole operator. Its footprint spans DfT-supervised e-scooter trial areas — historically including Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol and Bath, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight, among others — plus e-bike schemes. In 2025 Voi expanded e-bikes across several **London** boroughs and **Cambridge**, and on **28 August 2025** Glasgow City Council awarded Voi the city's cycle-hire contract; the fully electric scheme began reaching streets from around **10 November 2025** with a dockless fleet of at least 1,000 e-bikes at more than 150 locations.

Voi describes itself as a climate-neutral service since January 2020 and reports a 77% cut in emission intensity per kilometre since 2019, targeting net zero across its value chain by 2035. These are company-published sustainability claims rather than an independent product certification — Voi is not, for example, B Corp certified.

## What you get with the referral

Voi's refer-a-friend programme is **two-sided and asymmetric**. According to Voi's own in-app **Invite friends** screen, a new rider who joins via an invite receives **£2.50 in ride credits** on sign-up, and the friend who invited them receives **£5.00 in ride credits** once the new rider completes their first paid trip. Voi's UK User Agreement (section 2.8, "Share Voi and get free rides") confirms the underlying mechanic in its own words: the referrer earns Voi Credits "when a friend completes their first trip with Voi using your personal invite code", credited automatically to the Voi account.

A few terms are worth knowing before you ride, all drawn from Voi's published User Agreement:

- The credit is **ride money, not withdrawable cash**. Voi Credits are applied automatically to your next trip and drawn down at your city's pay-as-you-go rate.
- Credits are **one-time and may be limited to one per customer and account**, are non-transferable, and **may not be combined with other offers** (User Agreement s2.7 and s2.2).
- Codes are for **personal, non-commercial use only**. Voi prohibits public distribution where you are not the primary content owner, and bars search-engine or social marketing of a personal code.
- A **valid payment method must be added** before a promotion code can be used.

One honesty note runs through this page: the **£5 and £2.50 figures appear only on Voi's in-app Invite friends screen**. Voi's publicly published UK User Agreement confirms the structure, the GBP currency, the first-trip trigger and the in-app crediting, but it does not itself print the amounts, and third-party coupon sites quote inconsistent values. The amounts here therefore rest on the in-app screen, and Voi can vary promotion amounts by city or campaign — confirm the figure shown in your own app before relying on it.

## What counts as a qualifying first trip

Two distinct events trigger the two halves of the reward:

1. **The friend's £2.50 lands on sign-up.** Voi's Invite friends screen states the invited friend receives £2.50 in credits "instantly upon signing up". Voi's written User Agreement is less specific — it says only that credits apply automatically to your next trip — so expect the £2.50 to be available for your first ride even if the precise moment it appears is not separately documented.
2. **The referrer's £5 lands after the friend's first paid trip.** This is the part Voi's User Agreement pins down explicitly: the referrer's credit triggers when the invited friend "completes their first trip with Voi using your personal invite code". It does **not** release at the friend's sign-up alone — there has to be a completed, paid Voi trip.

There is no published minimum trip duration and no fixed deadline by which the friend must ride, so the referrer's £5 depends entirely on when their friend takes that first trip. The referral must, of course, be attached to a **new** Voi account: Voi states referral codes "are only applicable to an invited user's first ride and are not intended for existing users", and existing users gaming the programme may have referral promotions disabled.

## Where Voi operates and what it costs

Voi runs entirely as a **city-by-city** service in the UK — each council runs its own DfT trial or e-bike scheme — so there is **no single nationwide rate**. The price you pay is set in-app per city. Verified examples as at the date at the top of this page:

| City / scheme | Pay-as-you-go | Passes |
|---|---|---|
| Slough (Slough Borough Council) | £0.49 unlock + £0.18/min | Daily and weekly passes and corporate memberships offered (prices not published on the council page) |
| Southampton / Solent — Southampton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight | £0.99 unlock + 20p/min (e-scooters and e-bikes) | Day £4.99 (30 min); 3-day £8.99 (60 min); week £15.99 (120 min); month £35.99 (300 min) or £69.99 (750 min); ~£4.99/month "Free Unlock Pass" waives the unlock fee |
| London (TfL trial) | Unlock fee + per-minute; secondary reporting puts a 15-minute ride near £3.25–£3.40, with a lower per-minute rate for low-income riders | Varies |

Voi offers **reduced rates** for eligible groups — commonly NHS staff, military, students, over-65s, disabled riders and those on low incomes — with eligibility and discount levels varying by city. A small temporary pre-ride authorisation hold may be taken before a ride. Because rates change and differ between cities, always confirm the figure on Voi's pricing-and-passes page and the in-app screen for your city.

The current exhaustive list of live UK Voi cities is not published in a single fetchable place, so check Voi's own locations page or the in-app map before relying on the credit — it is only useful where there is a Voi vehicle to unlock within reach.

## Voi vs Lime vs Forest vs Dott

The operators a UK rider most often compares:

| | Voi | Lime | Forest | Dott |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles | E-scooters + e-bikes | E-scooters + e-bikes | E-bikes only | E-scooters + e-bikes |
| UK reach | ~20+ towns/cities; runs about two-thirds of England's e-scooter trials | London + Greater Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Milton Keynes, West Midlands | London only (18+ boroughs) | National competitor for council contracts; withdrew London e-scooters |
| Referral | £2.50 joiner + £5 referrer (per Voi's in-app screen) | £4 each side, 60-day expiry | £10 each side, 7-day expiry, London-only | Not listed |
| Pricing | Set per trial city (e.g. £0.49–£0.99 unlock + 18–20p/min) | ~£1 unlock + ~31p/min in London | £1 unlock + 29p/min PAYG | Varies |
| Sustainability claim | Climate-neutral since 2020; net-zero target 2035 (self-reported) | None comparable | B Corp + Verra-validated CO2 offsets | None comparable |

[Lime](/codes/lime) is Voi's main direct rival and the other live operator in the London TfL e-scooter trial; in London both run under identical rules (12.5 mph cap, designated parking bays, road and cycle-lane only), so the practical choice is usually whichever has a vehicle nearest. Outside London, most UK trials award a single operator, and Voi is frequently that operator — so the "choice" is often Voi or nothing. [Forest](/codes/forest) is a London-only e-bike rival with a larger free-riding allowance but no e-scooters. **Dott** (formed when Tier merged into Dott and fully rebranded in October 2024) was a London trial operator alongside Voi and Lime but withdrew its London e-scooters; it remains a national competitor for council contracts. **Beryl**, a UK operator running council-backed e-bike, e-scooter and pedal-bike schemes, competes with Voi for local-authority tenders rather than on the same streets.

## UK rental e-scooter trial: legal notes

This is the core legal point for any e-scooter reader. It is **illegal** to ride a privately owned e-scooter on public roads, pavements or in parks in the UK — doing so risks a fine, penalty points and seizure of the scooter, and private e-scooters may only be used on private land with the landowner's permission. The **only** legal way to ride an e-scooter in public is through a rental operator taking part in the **Department for Transport (DfT) rental e-scooter trial**. Voi is one of those operators. The trial launched in July 2020, has been extended five times, and now runs to **May 2028**.

If you take a Voi rental e-scooter under the trial:

- You must be **18 or over**.
- You must hold at least a **provisional UK driving licence** with a category Q entitlement (held via an AM, A or B licence), which Voi scans at registration.
- Maximum speed is **15.5 mph**, and some areas cap it lower — **London is capped at 12.5 mph**.
- You may ride on roads (not motorways) and in cycle lanes. **You must not ride on the pavement.**
- Helmets are **recommended but not legally required**.
- One rider only, no towing, no phone use, and no riding while drunk or intoxicated — drink/drug-driving law applies. The rental operator provides the third-party motor insurance covering the rider; you do not arrange your own.

If you take a **Voi e-bike**, none of those e-scooter rules apply — a compliant rental e-bike is an Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle (EAPC), needs no licence, tax or insurance, and is treated as a normal pedal cycle (though you still cannot ride it on the pavement). Note that generic EAPC rules permit riding from age 14, but Voi's own UK User Agreement sets a higher minimum of **16+ to ride its rental e-bikes**, so that operator rule is what applies to a Voi vehicle. This is a transport service, not a regulated financial product, so no FCA or FSCS protection applies.

## Source documentation

This page summarises Voi's current refer-a-friend programme. The reward **amounts (£5 referrer / £2.50 friend) are taken from Voi's own in-app Invite friends screen**; the **mechanics, GBP currency, first-trip trigger, one-per-customer limit, in-app redemption, the 16+ e-bike / 18+ e-scooter age rules and the expiry-if-set rules** are taken from Voi's UK User Agreement (sections 2.2, 2.7 and 2.8) at voi.com/legal/user-agreement/uk, and the programme is documented on Voi's UK help centre. Pricing is cited from Slough Borough Council and Southampton City Council trial pages and from secondary London reporting; corporate facts (founding, vehicle and ride counts, profitability, the Glasgow contract) from Voi's 2024 sustainability and full-year reports, Glasgow City Council and Companies House. The DfT rental e-scooter trial rules and the May 2028 trial end date are from GOV.UK's "Using a rental e-scooter" guidance and the DfT rental e-scooter trials policy paper. Programme terms are set by Voi and may change without notice — HonestCodes re-verifies every brand page monthly and the date at the top of this page reflects the last full check.

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## Frequently asked questions

### Is the Voi referral still active in 2026?

It is live as of the verification date shown above. The Invite friends screen in the Voi app advertises £5.00 in ride credits for each friend you invite, with the friend receiving £2.50 on sign-up, and Voi's UK User Agreement (section 2.8) confirms the underlying mechanic — the referrer earns credit 'when a friend completes their first trip with Voi using your personal invite code'. HonestCodes re-verifies live offers monthly.

### Are the £5 and £2.50 amounts confirmed by Voi?

Partly. The exact figures appear on Voi's own in-app Invite friends screen, which is a primary source. Voi's publicly published UK User Agreement confirms the structure, the GBP currency, the first-trip trigger and the in-app crediting, but it does not itself print the £5/£2.50 amounts, and third-party coupon sites quote inconsistent values. The amounts on this page therefore rest on the in-app screen rather than a Voi web page, and Voi can vary promotion amounts by city or campaign — always check the figure shown in your own app before relying on it.

### How do I claim the Voi credit — is there a code to type?

There is no short, human-typeable code. The referral is shared as a deep link carrying a long opaque 'giss' token, so the simplest route is to tap the Join Voi link on the phone you will ride with: it routes through Voi's link service, opens or installs the app and attaches the referral automatically. Voi's User Agreement also notes a code can be redeemed in the app under Free Rides, then Redeem Code.

### When do I actually get the £5 as the referrer?

After the person you invited completes their first paid trip on a Voi vehicle — not at their sign-up. Voi's User Agreement is explicit that the referrer's credit triggers when the friend takes that first trip, and the credit is then added to your Voi account automatically. There is no fixed deadline published, so the £5 depends on when your friend actually rides.

### Is the friend's £2.50 really credited instantly on sign-up?

Voi's in-app Invite friends screen says the invited friend receives £2.50 in credits 'instantly upon signing up'. Voi's published User Agreement is less specific — it states only that Voi Credits are applied automatically to your next trip. So expect the £2.50 to be available for your first ride; whether it shows the instant you finish sign-up or as you start that first trip is not separately confirmed in Voi's written terms.

### Can I use the Voi credit on e-bikes as well as e-scooters?

Yes. Voi Credits are held at account level and draw down against whichever Voi vehicle you hire in your city — rental e-scooter or e-bike — at that city's pay-as-you-go rate. The credit is ride money, not a single-vehicle voucher.

### Do I need a driving licence to ride a Voi e-scooter in the UK?

For a rental e-scooter, yes. Under the Department for Transport trial you must be 18 or over and hold at least a provisional UK driving licence with a category Q entitlement (held via an AM, A or B licence), which Voi scans at registration. A Voi e-bike needs no licence — it is treated as a normal pedal cycle under the EAPC rules — but Voi's own User Agreement sets a minimum age of 16 to ride its rental e-bikes.

### Where in the UK can I use the Voi referral?

Anywhere Voi currently operates a scheme — Voi has said it runs across roughly 20-plus UK towns and cities, spanning DfT rental e-scooter trial areas and e-bike schemes, including London e-bikes (in several boroughs) and the Glasgow cycle-hire scheme it took over in November 2025. Coverage is set city by city and changes over time, so check Voi's own locations page or the in-app map for live cities before you rely on the credit — it is only useful where there is a Voi vehicle to unlock.

### When do Voi referral credits expire?

Voi publishes no universal expiry for ride credits. Its User Agreement says only that if a promotion code carries an expiry date it must be used before that date, that codes cannot be extended or renewed, and that Voi may modify or cancel unredeemed credits at any time. Any specific expiry attached to your credit would be shown in the app, so treat the credit as best used on your next ride or two rather than banked indefinitely.