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[email protected] · September 18th 14, 08:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 18/09/2014 07:44, Roland Perry wrote:
[...]
It is indeed "apparently simple" About two lines of code could apply
such a discount to a suitably registered contactless account.

You'd need a solid system in place to verify that the payment card
holder really did hold a Railcard.

Then you'd need a solid system in place for RPIs and the like to be
informed that they should also checking for a valid Railcard.

Bit more than two lines of code there.

Actually, all that stuff is already needed for Oyster loaded with a
Railcard.

One significant difference is that the Railcard discount flag is
actually stored on the Oyster card - that's not possible with CPCs
(just possibly might be with a future generation of them).

Is that significant for CPCs, though? Everything about them is stored at the
back office.

RPIs do ask to see associated Railcards.

Once in a blue moon.

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Colin Rosenstiel