Amtrak is taking its refund and exchange process to the next level by offering a new form of payment - eVoucher (electronic voucher) to store passengers' remaining fare value. Paper exchange and refund vouchers already issued remain valid for customers to use through their expiration dates.
What are eVouchers?
Different from paper exchange and refund vouchers that hold value in paper, eVouchers store your ticket value electronically in our reservation and ticketing system. You will no longer have to keep track of paper value exchange and refund vouchers that might be misplaced or lost.
Under certain conditions following a fare downgrade or cancellation of a purchased trip, our system will automatically transfer funds owed to a customer into an eVoucher. Depending on the fare rules and policies that applied to the original ticket purchase, the funds in an eVoucher can be
Refundable: returned in cash (at stations only) as a refund check (through an Amtrak Refund office only) or credit back to the credit card used to pay for the original ticket. There will be a 10% refund fee if the return of a paper value ticket created the eVoucher.
Non-refundable: used in exchange to pay for future travel.
A Combination of refundable and non-refundable amounts.
What You Need to Know about eVouchers
What You Will Receive
When an eVoucher is created at the ticket counter, you will receive an eVoucher receipt and an e-mail notification as references. The value is stored in the eVoucher, not in the paper receipt or e-mail. If the paper receipt or e-mail printout is lost or misplaced, you still have the value safely stored in the eVoucher; a ticket agent will ask you for information needed to locate your eVoucher in the system (such as the eVoucher number, your name, phone number, reservation number, corporate ID number etc.).
For eVouchers created over the phone or online, you will receive an e-mail notification only.