"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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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 20:11:03 +0100, "tim \(in Sweden\)"
wrote:


"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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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.

At a previous workplace, a very snotty notice came round one day
saying that workers would only be reimbursed for out-of-pocket
expenses; apparently people had been travelling into work on a Z1-n
monthly/annual, then going to a client meeting across town and
claiming for 2xZ1 singles!

--
James Farrar
. @gmail.com

James Farrar wrote
[...]
you jump through hoops if you try and claim without a
ticket.

At a previous workplace, a very snotty notice came round one day
saying that workers would only be reimbursed for out-of-pocket
expenses; apparently people had been travelling into work on a Z1-n
monthly/annual, then going to a client meeting across town and
claiming for 2xZ1 singles!

Hee ! Since such companies usually provide season ticket loans both the
boss who signed the expenses claim and the accounts dept should know
what type of season ticket the worker had.

A slightly more subtle idea was to use "Gold card gives a N/W card
discount" but claim for a full rate ticket.

--
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

you can also get receipts for any purchases you make from the MFM or QBM
(the touch screen ones) but you have to press a button that states "press
for receipt". You won't get a receipt automatically.

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
...
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

In article ,
(thereisnospoon) wrote:

you can also get receipts for any purchases you make from the MFM or
QBM (the touch screen ones) but you have to press a button that
states "press for receipt". You won't get a receipt automatically.

That will only be a receipt for money put on the Oyster card, not for
journeys made.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
That will only be a receipt for money put on the Oyster card, not for
journeys made.

If they won't accept that, then sounds like the problem is your accounts
people, and not the ticketing system.

Tim

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
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


In my case (being self-employed and paying my travel costs) I only want
to know so I know how much to offset against tax. At the moment it has
to be a ghastly rought estimate.

Francis

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:07:32 +0000, Laurence Payne
wrote:

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?

My employer has apparently always taken tube tickets on trust - after
all it's a fixed price and easy to check that you're claiming the
right amount for the distance travelled. The only problem is
remembering how much it was and to put it down on your expenses.

In message , at 14:23:24 on
Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Phil Clark remarked:
My employer has apparently always taken tube tickets on trust - after
all it's a fixed price and easy to check that you're claiming the
right amount for the distance travelled.

Getting back to transport with a bump: Tube fares are significantly
cheaper with an Oyster, leaving the opportunity for some people to claim
the cash fare and make a profit. An old employer of mine would only pay
the carnet fare, rather than per-journey tickets.
--
Roland Perry