I am presently using the SNCF-connect website to try to buy train tickets for our group of 10 to get from Avignon to Paris on Oct. 1. The site requires me to break it into two bookings because there is a max. of 9 tickets per booking, but I can load each booking into my cart and pay for them together. The price for the departure time we want is 55€ per ticket, and it appears that I will immediately be sent etickets that I can put on the SNCF Connect app so that I can show them on my phone at time of travel. Or, it says I can print the confirmation email and show that piece of paper. It sounds like I need every passenger's details (name & d.o.b. & email address) to do this booking.
Then I discovered a link in the website to book for a group of 10 or more, and get a group discount. It was glitchy to get the date I wanted, at first appearing that I could only book out to the end of July, but after I picked a mock date in July, it did let me keep advancing the date a few days at a time until it got to Oct. 1. I loaded up the same journey and got a price of 42.80€ per person. That's a nice discount, and it's a much simplified booking, I just have to provide my name, phone number and email address as the group organizer. However, I'm concerned about what they say is the only method of delivery for the discounted group ticket. It says the group ticket will be emailed to me 7 days before the trip and it "must be printed out." We'll be staying in a rental home when this email arrives, and it does have a printer, but I don't know how old the printer may be and whether this will work for us.
If for any reason we would fail in our effort to print it at the rental home, would we just be able to go to Avignon TGV train station early on our travel day and print the ticket there?
Also, I am a little paranoid thinking, what if the promised email never comes? What proof will I have that I bought these tickets? Will I get some kind of confirmation email at time of purchase, with some kind of reference code on it, even if it's not the actual group ticket?