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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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.

If you top up at a tube ticket window, you'll get a receipt for it.

If you ask at a tube ticket window, you can get a print-out showing
your most recent journeys, including their costs.

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?

In message , at 02:44:33 on
Mon, 27 Feb 2006, asdf remarked:
If you ask at a tube ticket window, you can get a print-out showing
your most recent journeys, including their costs.

When I last topped up my card, I did it at a window because the queue
there was smaller than the queue for the only working Oyster-enabled
machine (hard to believe, but true). While I was there I asked for a
"printout", and got about two feet of till roll that had loads of stuff
about when I'd topped up, as well as a whole bunch of journeys.

But that's hardly good enough given that one of my clients requires
expenses in promptly, and if I'm dashing for a train home I don't want
to have to queue at the underground ticket office every time I depart
from KX/StPancras. (I'm unlikely to be back before my expenses are due
in, and even them I'm probably dashing the opposite direction).

It's better than the Nottingham equivalent of the Oyster (Easyrider
Anytime), which I don't think has any scope for a per-journey receipt.
[And can only be topped up at one location, in the City Centre].

http://www.nctx.co.uk/EasyRider/Easyrider.htm
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 03:07:32 on
Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Laurence Payne
remarked:
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.

A url for that would be useful.

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

Except if your journey ends at KX (and a few other places) which is
where Colin and I are likely to be exiting the system.

--
Roland Perry

In message , Roland
Perry writes
In message , at 03:07:32 on
Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Laurence Payne
remarked:
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.

A url for that would be useful.

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

Except if your journey ends at KX (and a few other places) which is
where Colin and I are likely to be exiting the system.
That option will stop fairly soon, once the refurbished station is
completed (the only reason the ticket machines haven't retained the
tickets is to allow people to change between lines which have, until
now, required separate booking halls).

--
Paul G
Typing from Barking

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.

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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Roland Perry) wrote:

In message , at 03:07:32
on Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Laurence Payne
remarked:
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.

A url for that would be useful.

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

Except if your journey ends at KX (and a few other places) which is
where Colin and I are likely to be exiting the system.

Actually, for singles I'm more often exiting at St James's Park.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 09:10:05 on Mon,
27 Feb 2006, Paul G remarked:
Single tickets were always swallowed by the machine at the end of the
journey anyway.

Except if your journey ends at KX (and a few other places) which is
where Colin and I are likely to be exiting the system.
That option will stop fairly soon, once the refurbished station is
completed

Is there a date for this? I see that the Northern ticket hall won't be
finished until 2009.

(the only reason the ticket machines haven't retained the tickets is to
allow people to change between lines which have, until now, required
separate booking halls).

Yes, I know.
--
Roland Perry

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