"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
...
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(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.

Not according to the Oyster helpline this morning. I specifically asked
too.

I recently emailed to ask for a statement using the Ask Oyster website.
They sent it to me by email as a PDF.

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

I'm glad someone has asked this question, as I wanted to know about receipts
on pre-pay Oyster too.

What do all you contractors / consultants do if you don't have season
tickets?

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

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.

Not according to the Oyster helpline this morning. I specifically asked too.

I recently emailed to ask for a statement using the Ask Oyster website. They sent it to me by
email as a PDF.

Go to "Ask Oyster" then select "Email Oyster" select topic 1 as "Prepay"
and topic 2 as "Statement Request".

In message , Nicola
Redwood writes

What do all you contractors / consultants do if you don't have season
tickets?

None of the central London companies I work for requires receipts for
journeys of less than around £12, unless by taxi. This has been the
pattern for as long as I can remember, probably because they know that
paper tickets are either swallowed by machines or travel cards need to
be kept for onward/return journeys.

I just write something like "One day travelcard, £5.20" or whatever on
the claim form or invoice - it is never questioned.
--
Paul Terry

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:59:49 +0000 (UTC), "Nicola Redwood"
wrote:

What do all you contractors / consultants do if you don't have season
tickets?

With Oyster PP, go to local tube station at a quiet time and ask for a
printout of the last 8 journeys. Last time I got said printout from
the grumpiest person I ever encountered, a previous time I was told it
wasn't possible! But generally they do it swiftly and gracefully.
Short or long printouts are doable.

For paper tix which get swallowed, I expense as "ticket taken by
machine". Not my fault and this has always been accepted in all sorts
of companies as it's "reasonable".

LT should really put the Oyster journeys on the web for those of us
who adore the ability to do this - perhaps with an option to
permanently delete the listings for those whose "affairs" need more
secrecy...
--
Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke
So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
...
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.

The usual solution to this problem is to buy a day
ticket even if you don't need it.

No-one in an accounts department queries whether the
ticket you have submitted was necessary, but they make
you jump through hoops if you try and claim without a
ticket.

tim

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:03:08 -0000, "TKD" wrote:

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.

Not according to the Oyster helpline this morning. I specifically asked too.

I recently emailed to ask for a statement using the Ask Oyster website. They sent it to me by
email as a PDF.

Go to "Ask Oyster" then select "Email Oyster" select topic 1 as "Prepay"
and topic 2 as "Statement Request".

Thanks. It's still quite a torturous process. Why can't they just put
a "view statement" link on the oystercard.com website?

In message ,
Colin Rosenstiel scribes
In article ,
(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.

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?

Not if I asked to keep the ticket as a receipt. They tore it and let me
through the barrier. I'm checking what the accountant will accept.

I always ask for a receipt when buying a ticket which I will be claiming
expenses for. OK, nearly always ask for one...
--
Snowy

Paul Oter wrote
[...]
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)

My local SWT station out in Surrey beyond the Travelcard area was happy
to sell me a single to Waterloo plus Underground Z1 for today and
another single + Z1 dated 3 days later for my return trip. They said
they had had some reports of problems with the automatic barriers for
the future dated U1 tickets but in fact I had no problems to/from KX.

When I worked for BP (before 1999) the expenses rules said that no
receipt was expected for journeys of less than 50 miles by public
transport.

--
Mike D

In article ,
(Laurence Payne) wrote:

Single tickets were always swallowed by the machine at the end of the
journey anyway.

I've never been refused when I've asked to keep the paper ticket as a
receipt.

Won't your accountant really accept a simple list of
journeys and fares? Have you asked him?

You could be right. He's been on holiday

--
Colin Rosenstiel