London Banter - View Single Post - Receipts for Oyster pre-pay?

Paul Oter · February 27th 06, 12:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Laurence Payne wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:42 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

It looks like I need to get an Oyster card for pre-pay but I regularly
need to produce receipts for travel. That is easy with paper tickets but
how do I do that with Oyster pre-pay? Ask Oyster doesn't have anything.

You can ask for a print-out at an Underground ticket office, covering
your last dozen or so journeys. I think you can request one online
too, though they post it to you.

Single tickets were always swallowed by the machine at the end of the
journey anyway. Won't your accountant really accept a simple list of
journeys and fares? Have you asked him?

I occasionally need to claim trips between KX and Waterloo on expenses.
I explained the problem to my employer's accounts department and they
said that they were happy for me to claim without a receipt.

(To avoid this complication I asked Cambridge ticket office to sell me
a through ticket from KX (LU) to my destination in Berkshire. However I
was told that such a ticket doesn't exist, and that they could only
sell me a ticket starting at Waterloo)

PaulO