Re: Oyster PAYG on rail to the edge of zone

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

This is, of course, a really good question, but it's one that i suspect that nobody on this group can actually answer. Is there a technical reason why it's hard to make ticket machines or ticket office equipment capable of activating auto top-up? Something to do with the software in it, or the kind of network connection it has? If so, that would be your answer. If not, then i can't think of a good reason. But without knowing about the technical details of the machinery involved, we can't answer it. I don't know about that, and i assume from the fact that we're having this discussion that none of the other participants do either!

There is someone on this group who's posted some more insider stuff about
oyster before - who was that? Does he have any ideas?

The fundamental reason is that the card processors insist that the inital setup transaction is processed in the same way as the ongoing transactions (that is, as a Customer Not Present transaction using CVV and address checking), and it isn't practical to carry out this type of transaction at a ticket office.

But there's no need to - that's not what we're talking about. The idea is that you could do the transaction online, and then pick up the activation at the station. No transaction, in the credit card sense, would take place there.

tom

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