Using the app to get Compostela

[crhutch]

We walking from Burgos to Santiago. At Ponferrada we leave the Frances and pick up the Invierno. The app makes me pick a Camino. If I pick Invierno I can’t put Burgos as my starting point. Comments/ideas?

 

[henrythedog]

We walking from Burgos to Santiago. At Ponferrada we leave the Frances and pick up the Invierno. The app makes me pick a Camino. If I pick Invierno I can’t put Burgos as my starting point. Comments/ideas?

Put Frances and explain when you get there if a distance certificate is important to you. Either route from that starting point is sufficient for a compostela, providing you meet the other requirements.

 

[Tincatinker]

Scrap the app and use a credencial. Two stamps a day for the final 100km

 

[trecile]

I don't know what app you are talking about.
Do you mean the registration page on the Pilgrims Office website?

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[henrythedog]

I assumed the OP is referring to the pre-registration form in which one sets out the basic details for the pilgrim office to issue a compostela. It then delivers a QR code which when scanned in Santiago pre-populates the data and speeds up the process. I’m sure that, this weekend, it’s a welcome innovation. On a rainy Tuesday in March it seemed to be a solution in search of a problem.

 

[trecile]

Or is it the digital credential app that the Cathedral introduced a couple of years ago which seems to no longer be available?

The name of the app that has been developed on behalf of the Cathedral of Santiago is called: Credencial del Peregrino / Catedral de Santiago.

There are links to both app versions, ie to the AppStore and to the Google site for Android on their website (https://oficinadelperegrino.com/en/pilgrimage/the-credencial/) but the two links don't work. I checked the AppStore and I don't see the app there. I did download it ages ago. I am not sure whether it has disappeared altogether or whether this is yet again a geoblocking issue due to the fact that I am not in Spain.

Sorry!

La Catedral de Santiago presenta la Credencial Digital del Peregrino | Catedral de Santiago

catedraldesantiago.es

 

[t2andreo]

The "official" digital credential, developed some years back by the Pilgrim Office, never did catch on. I do not think it is being supported anymore.

In view of this, I strongly recommend that ALL pilgrims use sellos / stamps in a paper credencial to document their journey to Santiago, regardless of the actual route taken.

Many pilgrims start on the Frances, then cut to the Invierno to avoid the Sarria section. It is a day or two longer, but really pretty.

The office staff is used to seeing this detour / variation in credentials. Just point it out when you arrive. Essentially, you walked the Camino Frances, but via the Invierno at Ponferrada.

Apps, like the Wise apps, will provide excellent coverage for both the Camino Frances, from your starting point to Ponferrada, and the Invierno app from Ponferrada to Santiago.

Personally, I would use two apps on my iPhone, and one paper credencial to plan, and then document my Camino along the OPs planned route.

It will all sort out.

Hope this helps.

Tom

 

[sastoneesq]

Could someone please post the link to getting the QR code needed to queue for the Compastela? TIA

 

[Bradypus]

Could someone please post the link to getting the QR code needed to queue for the Compastela? TIA

On this website:

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[Rmarkob]

On this website:

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Helpful hint: "Create a Group" is equivalent to "Submit". It wasn't intuitive to me, but I stumbled upon it when there was nothing else obvious (to me)!

 

[trecile]

Helpful hint: "Create a Group" is equivalent to "Submit". It wasn't intuitive to me, but I stumbled upon it when there was nothing else obvious (to me)!

Very little is intuitive about the online registration process! It would be nice if they properly translated the items in the drop down menus.

 

[Kathar1na]

Or is it the digital credential app that the Cathedral introduced a couple of years ago which seems to no longer be available?

La Catedral de Santiago presenta la Credencial Digital del Peregrino | Catedral de Santiago

catedraldesantiago.es

Fwiw - and, really, for what it is worth, I am not expressing an opinion about the thing and besides, it is not clear to which ”app” the OP refers - here’s an update about my own copy of the Cathedral’s digital credential app.

1. I can’t find the app in the AppStore but this could be due to a geolocation block issue.

2. While updating another app I noticed my copy of the digital credential that I had once downloaded. It appears to be fully active. I could reset my password and look at various options. To activate it for a new Camino it wants me to pay yet another €1.50. While I am often willing to pay such small amounts for our common good and our improved level of common knowledge, I said no thank you to further exploration and testing in this case. But it is obviously still there and alive.

 

[trecile]

I can’t find the app in the AppStore but this could be due to a geolocation block issue.

It's not in the Google Play store.

 

[Kathar1na]

I suppose the first post refers to the online registration process.

To apply for a Compostela in the given context, one picks Camino Invierno with Ponferrada C. Inv. as starting point. For the Compostela, it does not matter that the pilgrim started in Burgos.

We don’t know on the forum yet how this is handled if the pilgrim wants a distance certificate for Burgos-Santiago in addition to the Compostela. Perhaps @crhutch can let us know when he has arrived at the desk of the Pilgrim Office? It would be helpful to know for many other pilgrims in similar situations.