How the Group eSIM Discount Works

The discount is a percentage off the whole order and it scales with the number of people. Two travellers save 5%, three save 7.5%, four save 10%, five save 12.5%, and six or more save 15%.

It applies to the order total, not to a single line, so it comes off every eSIM in the basket. There is no minimum spend and no minimum plan size — two people buying the smallest plans get the same 5% as two people buying the largest.

The exact amount in your own currency is shown before you pay. The calculator on the vigxo home page will also work it out for any group size against a real plan price, so you can see the number before you go anywhere near checkout.

Choose your destination and plan as normal, then set the number of people at checkout. The discount appears immediately and comes off the total.

There is no code to enter, nothing to sign up for, and no account required. You do not need to hunt for a voucher, and there is no coupon that expires while you are deciding.

The one thing to know is that the discount applies to eSIMs bought in a SINGLE checkout. Four people who each buy separately pay full price four times; the same four people in one order pay 10% less. If your group is splitting the cost, it is worth one person paying and settling up afterwards.

This is the question people ask most, and the answer is yes. A group order is several separate eSIMs, not one shared connection.

Each traveller receives their own QR code by email, clearly labelled so nobody installs the wrong one. Each eSIM has its own data allowance and its own validity period, and one person running out has no effect on anyone else.

That matters more than it sounds. A shared connection — a pocket wifi router, or one phone hotspotting for everyone — fails the moment the group splits up, which on any trip longer than a few days it will. Individual eSIMs keep everyone independently connected, including the half of the group that went to the market instead of the museum.

You can send the QR codes to each traveller directly from your dashboard, so the person who paid does not have to forward five emails by hand.

It is worth being straight about this, because a discount with no explanation usually means the original price was inflated.

Part of it is a cost that genuinely disappears. Card processing charges a fixed fee once per order rather than once per eSIM, so five eSIMs bought in one transaction cost us measurably less to process than five bought separately. That saving is real and we hand it back.

The rest comes out of our margin, deliberately. A group of five is one customer to reach instead of five, which is cheaper for us in a way that has nothing to do with payment processing. We would rather pass that on than spend it on advertising.

What we are not doing is raising the single-traveller price to make the group price look better. The one-person price is the same price it has always been, and the comparison against other providers on our comparison page is done at that single-traveller rate.

It does not stack with a promo code. If you have a discount code and the group discount would save you more, you get the group discount and your code stays unused rather than being spent for nothing. Whichever saves you more is the one that applies — you never have to work out which is better.

Everyone in the order gets the same plan. If one person needs 20 GB and everyone else needs 5 GB, that is two separate orders, and the larger one may not qualify on its own. In practice most groups travelling together use similar amounts.

The discount caps at 15%, which is reached at six people. Seven, eight or ten people all get 15% — the price per person stops improving after six, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

Group orders are for travel groups rather than resale. Buying in genuine bulk is a different arrangement with different pricing; there is a business page for that.

Pocket wifi is the usual alternative for groups and its economics are the opposite of a group eSIM: you pay per DAY for a device rather than per gigabyte of data. On a short trip that can work out. On a two-week trip the daily fee accumulates well past the cost of individual plans, and you still have a router to collect, charge every night and post back.

The deeper problem is the one described above — a single router cannot be in two places, and groups separate.

Local SIMs bought on arrival mean the whole group queueing at an airport counter, each handing over a passport for registration, and each losing their home number for the trip. For a group that is the same hassle multiplied by the number of people.

Roaming with your home carriers is the most expensive option by a wide margin, and it is worse for a group because each person pays their own daily fee. Four people on daily roaming passes for ten days is a genuinely large number.

The full comparison, including the cases where pocket wifi genuinely wins, is at /guides/essentials/esim-vs-pocket-wifi-vs-sim.

A family is a group like any other, and the discount treats it the same way. Two parents and two children buying four eSIMs get 10% off.

Whether every child needs their own eSIM depends on the child. For a teenager with their own phone, yes, and it is the same argument as for adults — they will not always be standing next to you. For a younger child on a shared or occasional device, a family of four might genuinely only need three plans, and buying the fourth to reach a higher discount tier would cost more than it saves.

The arithmetic is simple: an extra plan only makes sense if you will use it. A 12.5% discount on five plans you need beats 10% on four, but not if the fifth plan sits unused.

Colleagues travelling to the same conference, trade fair or site visit are a group in exactly the same sense as a family, and a single order gets the same rate. Four people to a conference is 10% off; six or more is 15%.

The part that usually matters more than the discount is the paperwork. One order means one payment and one receipt covering the whole team, rather than each person expensing a separate purchase and someone reconciling five line items afterwards. Whoever books the flights can book the connectivity in the same ten minutes.

It also removes the roaming conversation entirely. A team abroad on their own carriers' daily roaming passes is a genuinely large and unpredictable bill, spread across several people's accounts, arriving weeks later. A single eSIM order is one known number, paid up front.

Each colleague still gets their own eSIM and their own QR code, so nobody depends on anyone else being in the room, and nobody has to hand their phone over to be configured.

One honest limit: this is sized for a travel group, not for procurement. The checkout caps at ten people per order, and everyone in the order takes the same plan. If you are buying for a whole department on an ongoing basis, or buying to pass on to your own customers, that is a different arrangement rather than a bigger version of this one — contact us and we will point you at the right thing.

Plans change, and people drop out. Any eSIM that has not been installed can be refunded in full, so if one traveller cancels their trip you are not stuck with their plan.

The discount already applied to the rest of the order stands — a refund on one eSIM does not claw back the group rate for everyone else.

If someone joins late, they can buy their own eSIM separately at the single rate, or you can place a second group order if two or more people are joining. There is no way to add a person to an order after it is paid, since each eSIM is provisioned at purchase.

Check that everyone's phone supports eSIM and is carrier-unlocked, at /device-check. In a group of four there is a reasonable chance one phone is too old, and it is far better to find that out now than at the airport.

Work out the plan size from what the group will actually do rather than the worst case — the sizing guide at /guides/essentials/how-much-data-do-you-need has realistic per-day figures. Topping up mid-trip is easy, so buying modestly and extending costs less than overbuying for everyone.

Then install before you fly. Everyone should add their eSIM at home on wifi, where a problem is solvable, rather than in an arrivals hall. The step-by-step is at /get-connected.