Passenger Transportation Online Licence Application Tutorial

Quick Start

This Quick Start tells you what you need to know to start using the Passenger Transportation Online Licence Application. For detailed information on how to answer specific questions, refer to the online help supplied with each screen. If you want an overview of the whole application process, begin at the Introduction section of the Tutorial.

Contents

• Registering as a New Applicant
• Continuing as a Returning Applicant
• Moving Through the Online Application
• Getting Help
• Saving your Work and Exiting
• Changing your Choices
• Printing your Supporting Documents Cover Page
• Previewing your Work
• Submitting your Online Application

To start your online application, you must first register as a new applicant.

To register, find the Start New Application section of the Introduction page, in the right-hand column below the Returned to Saved Application section. Type your email address in both the enter email address and verify email address textboxes, then press Register. If the emails you entered match, you will see the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Information screen.

Important: Make sure you enter a valid email address that you have access to. Once you complete the registration process, you are assigned an Online Application Reference Number which is sent to the email address entered. If you need to exit before finishing your application, this number will be required to continue entering your information as a returning applicant.

Registered applicants who saved their work and ended their session may resume work on their application by logging in as a returning applicant.

To log in, find the Returned to Saved Application section of the Introduction page (at the top of the right-hand column). Type the email address you used to register in the enter email address textbox, and then type the Online Application reference number in the application Reference # textbox. Press the Log in button. If the email and reference number match correctly, you will return to where you last saved the application process.

Important: Your online application reference number was mailed to the email address you entered when you initially registered.

The online application consists of a sequence of screens to be completed individually, in order of appearance. The number of screens depends on the information entered on the Start and Licence Type screens. After entering the required information, pressing the Next button will proceed to the next screen. Your work is automatically saved when you move from screen to screen using the Next or Previous buttons.

The Steps Guide on the left-hand side of the page lists all of the steps required to complete the application, which ones you have already finished, and which ones still remain outstanding. For example, pressing Next after finishing the Start screen will update the Steps guide, placing a checkmark next to Start indicating that it has been completed. This Guide provides an easy reminder to where you are in the application process. The steps on the Guide are not navigational hyperlinks. To navigate through the application, use the Next and Previous buttons at the bottom of each screen.

Just as the Next button moves you forward in the screen sequence, the Previous button moves you backwards. Moving back and forth through completed screens will not alter the data you entered. However, if you move back to an earlier screen and change the information entered, then move forward, you may have changed your application process which could result in a different sequence of screens listed in the Steps Guide.

Each screen has its own online help. The online help for the screen offers assistance in how to complete the screen, as well as links to important definitions.

To display the help for a screen, press the Help + button at the top-right of the screen. A scrollable section will open, containing the help for the current page. Use the scroll bar to move through the contents. Pressing the Print button will open the help file in a new printable window. Press the Help - button to make the help section disappear.

To save before moving to the next screen, press the Save Your Work button , located near the bottom of the Steps guide on the left-hand column of the page.

You may exit the online application at any time by pressing the Log Out button located near the bottom of the Steps guide on the left-hand column of the page. This action returns you to the Online Licence Application homepage, and automatically saves your work.

You can change any of your choices or information at any time. Use the Next and Previous buttons to move to the page where you want to make changes, and then make your changes. Once you press the Save Your Work button or move to the next or previous screen, your changes will be automatically saved.

Important: Once you press the Submit button at the end of the application process, your application is considered complete and is sent to the Passenger Transportation Branch. You can no longer make changes to your application once it has been submitted. Make sure you use the Preview feature to check your application before pressing the Submit button.

You can print your supporting documents Cover Page by pressing the Print button

at the bottom of the Supporting Documents screen.

Printing out the supporting documents cover page is a useful method to remind you to forward the necessary documents for your application to the Passenger Transportation Branch.

You can preview your application before submitting it as final by pressing the Preview button on the Preview and Submit Application screen.

The preview will display as a PDF file in a new window. It will list the information entered, in the order of the screens completed. The document is watermarked with the words “Draft” so that it cannot be confused with the final application. Press your browser’s Print button to print the preview.

To make changes to your application use the Previous button to return to the screen containing the information to be changed, make the required changes and use the Next button until you return to the Preview and Submit Application screen.

After printing out your supporting documents cover page and previewing your application, you are ready to submit your online application to the Passenger Transportation Branch.

Pressing Submit creates a PDF version of your application which is sent electronically to the Passenger Transportation Branch and to the email address you entered when you initially registered with the subject of "Passenger Transportation Online Licence Application - Completed Application".

To print a copy of your submitted application, open the email with the subject of "Passenger Transportation Online Licence Application - Completed Application" and launch and print the attachment using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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