Shop Tickets are one of the many currencies in Pokémon TCG Pocket. They’re used in the main menu of the Shop to purchase other currencies like Pack Hourglasses, as well as accessories and exclusive cards.
Discover how to obtain Shop Tickets through one-shot and recurring missions and what you can get with them.
How to obtain Shop Tickets?
Daily Gifts (recurring)
Each day, you can claim a free complimentary item set in the shop. You can’t miss it: it’s promoted on the homepage of the app. It contains 1 Wonder Hourglass and 1 Shop Ticket.
Thanks and Like system (recurring)
After completing a Wonder Pick or a Versus Battle, an interface will appear and suggest that you send a thanks to the other player. If you do, this player will receive a Shop Ticket. If they do the same in return, you can collect 1 Shop Ticket as well.
- It works for all Versus Battles, including Private battles. You can do it when you challenge your friends or people in tournaments.
It also works when you get a like on one of your Showcases (either one of your Display Boards or one of your Binders). To ensure the general community and/or friends can see your showcases to like them, change their sharing settings.
As a good practice, check your friends’ showcases daily and like them. In return, they’ll certainly do the same. If not, consider adding more friends to your list… or changing friends!
These two videos show how to change the sharing settings of your Display Board or Binder, and a convenient way to like some of the community and your friends’ showcases by going to the Community Showcase menu.
Then, to add these tickets to your items, go to the Gift box and claim them.
There’s a maximum limit of 5 Shop Tickets per day you can get by these two methods combined (likes and thanks). After that, the thanks and likes you receive will display in the Gift box, but there won’t be any attached gift.
With the Daily Gifts, you can collect 6 Shop tickets per day using these recurring methods which means 180 Shop Tickets per month.
Battle rewards and Missions (one-time)
- Battle: Solo First-time rewards. When you win a battle in Solo mode for the first time, you will earn 1 Shop Ticket.
- Battle: Solo Battle tasks. Battles come with optional “Battle Tasks,” a type of challenge to complete to earn extra rewards. Most of these rewards are Shop Tickets.
- Themed collections. Collecting cards and completing Themed Collections brings rewards; some of them can be Shop Tickets. Consult the list of Themed Collections here.
Event rewards (one-time and recurring)
Some events offer Shop tickets as:
- First-time rewards when you win a battle. Some include Shop Tickets as rewards.
- Battle tasks, just like in regular Solo Battles, sometimes include Shop Tickets as rewards.
- Drop rewards every time you win a battle. Although not guaranteed, you can obtain a Shop Ticket this way. This is one of the recurring ways to obtain more Shop Tickets.
As a result, it’s possible to “convert” Poké Gold into Shop Tickets by purchasing Event Stamina with Poké Gold and repeatedly winning by consuming 1 Event Stamina. However, since drop rewards aren’t guaranteed, it’s a very expensive and inefficient way to do it.
What can you buy with Shop Tickets?
Shop Tickets are used in the very first Shop panel (Shop > Main > Tickets), the same one where you collect the Daily Gift set. From there, you can purchase:
Hourglasses
Both Pack Hourglasses and Wonder Hourglasses are sold. They’re separated into two different panels :
One-time Hourglasses
Pack Hourglass 
Cost: 2 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Wonder Hourglass 
Cost: 2 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Pack Hourglass x6
Cost: 12 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Wonder Hourglass x6
Cost: 12 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Although sold at a very advantageous price, these Hourglasses never refresh. As you can buy them at any time, it’s advised that you first pick from the other category below.
Refreshed Monthly Hourglasses
Pack Hourglass
Cost: 3 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Wonder Hourglass
Cost: 3 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Pack Hourglass x6
Cost: 18 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
Wonder Hourglass x6
Cost: 18 Shop Tickets
Limit: 10 max.
More expensive than the One-Time Hourglasses, they must be your priority to acquire as they get renewed at the start of every month—you won’t have the opportunity to get those from the previous month.
Special Shop Ticket
Special Shop Ticket 
are sold for a whopping 300 Shop Tickets each. They are used to purchase Special Accessories in the Shop. Unless you’re really unlucky or you really, really want to purchase these Premium cosmetics, you’re probably better off converting your ☆ rarity cards to obtain them, as explained in our article about Flair and Cosmetics.
Accessories
You can purchase Shop exclusive accessories.
15 Shop Tickets
15 Shop Tickets
15 Shop TicketsCards
Some cards can be purchased in the Shop. They can’t be acquired by any other means, so make sure you have some spare tickets to be able to play those useful cards in your deck.
Remember that you can get copies of some of them in your starter deck as well as by completing all the Battle Guides.
2 Shop Tickets
2 Shop Tickets
2 Shop Tickets
