On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:11:03 +0100, "tim \(in Sweden\)"
wrote:


"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.

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

In article 01c63be0$dd121260$LocalHost@default,
(Michael R N Dolbear) wrote:

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.

I would expect to buy a Saver Return to Z1 for that sort of trip from
Cambridge.

I do that to Zones 1 & 2 on occasion when I stay in Putney. With a
Network Card it's £19.15 this year compared to a Saver Return to King's
Cross which is £16.55. That still beats the tube singles, even with
Oyster.

--
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

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

Colin Rosenstiel wrote
(Michael R N Dolbear) wrote:

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
[...]
I would expect to buy a Saver Return to Z1 for that sort of trip from

Cambridge.

I do that to Zones 1 & 2 on occasion when I stay in Putney. With a
Network Card it's £19.15 this year compared to a Saver Return to
King's
Cross which is £16.55. That still beats the tube singles, even with
Oyster.

Yes, Savers are 50 miles and up, Network Awaybreak 35 miles and up --
those closer in don't get any return ticket offered.

--
Mike D

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

In article 01c63c82$b5c772c0$LocalHost@default,
(Michael R N Dolbear) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote
(Michael R N Dolbear) wrote:

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
[...]
I would expect to buy a Saver Return to Z1 for that sort of trip
from Cambridge.

I do that to Zones 1 & 2 on occasion when I stay in Putney. With a
Network Card it's £19.15 this year compared to a Saver Return to
King's Cross which is £16.55. That still beats the tube singles,
even with Oyster.

Yes, Savers are 50 miles and up, Network Awaybreak 35 miles and up --
those closer in don't get any return ticket offered.

They withdrew Network Awaybreaks from Cambridge last year.

--
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:
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.

If I'm on a work trip to London, I just guess how much prepay I'm likely
to burn, and top up that amount.

So I go to the ticket machine, put a tenner in, press the receipt button
and give the receipt for a tenner to the accountant.

Tim

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