Originally Posted by
Concerto
A couple of recent data points. If you travel with another person, you can receive the points for their ticket as well. At the ticket machines you have to do the purchase in one transaction, being careful not to apply the Bahncard discount to the 2nd person if they haven't got one.
You should also mention that you'd have to select "bahn.bonus card" as the option to collect points (otherwise, they won't even ask you about collecting points). Just provide your BC number (or insert the BC into the ticket machine) and you'll receive the points. I can confirm that this procedure will actually work.
Originally Posted by
saltytheseagull
If I get just a bahn.bonus card now and decide to get a bahncard later on can the accounts be merged?
Yes, the bahn.bonus accounts aren't tied to a specific card number, but to a customer account. I hold two BahnCards (50 for 2nd, 25 for 1st) and points collected on each one do show up in my personal account. You may even collect points using your bahn.bonus card when purchasing tickets with BC discount, or collect points on a 2nd class BC when you buy a 1st class ticket with a BC 1st discount. They don't seem to run any consistency checks.