You can register your contactless card online with TfL and then receive weekly PDF summaries by email of what travel has been undertaken and charged for.
No. I don't really see that it's necessary to be honest. If you use an Oyster card you can instantly see your journey history on-screen at any ticket machine.
Except for this very common use case which is being exploited by London's government to harvest more personal data?
If that worries you, use cash. (London doesn't have a government by the way).
With an Oyster account, you can go on-line and ask for a summary within user-selectable start and end dates, if you don't want to confuse your boss with assorted other journeys you may have made on other days. Can you do the same with contactless?
I'm pretty sure it's possible but I can't 100% confirm since I tend to use Oyster rather than contactless.
Does this work for anyone? It shows a Google "security check" (a spot the X type question, nothing to do with security) which goes to a menu that includes "7 day journey & payment history - Access up to 7 days history without an account" as one option but clicking that goes back to the "security check" - and so it repeats forever.
No, as stated above they work in different ways. Contactless it is harder to calculate as the cost is worked out taking into account all journeys generally overnight/at the end of the week for daily/weekly capping.
No you can't. You can do this for Oyster because the journey history is only kept for 8 weeks. With contactless it's kept for a year so they haven't provided email options.
No you can't. With contactless the only options are last 7 days, or complete months going back a year.
The reason is actually simpler than that. A ticket machine simply displays the last 8 journeys recorded on the Oyster card. No attempt is made to retrieve information from the central system. There is no data recorded on a bank payment card, for obvious reasons, so there is nothing that the machine can display.
And the issue was not with the technology, but providing an invoice that proves that you had actually paid for the journey you were claiming for. A bank statement showing a generic payment to TFL only proves that you paid a certain sum of money on a certain date - it doesn't show what you paid that money for, it could be for any old journey. HMRI can object to a claim if there is insufficient evidence to prove the payment is work related, meaning the payment would then have to be taxed. I think the company concerned had previously had HMRI reject some of their expense payments, and were determined not to have the same happen again. For a large company, having to retrospectively trawl through thousands of expense claims can be a daunting exercise. A similar thing applies with hotel bills, a bank statement simply showing how much you paid is unlikely to be acceptable, as there are some things that can appear on hotel bills that HMRI do not accept as legitimate business expenses.
