"David Walters" wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 08:30:34 -0000, tim... wrote:


"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On 2017-03-01 18:53:00 +0000, tim... said:

especially if he has to over-feed a card to pay for a load of
individual
journeys, only to have the excess refunded when the back office cap is
applied

seems like a recipe for disaster in the making

That is not how capping works. Capping works by stopping taking money
when the cap has been reached.

not when it reconciled overnight [1] in the back office, it doesn't

[1] which is the proposed plan (apparently)

It's not really either. If you make more than one journey on a contacless
card in a day you only get one charge.

When you use a brand new card a 10p authorisation, but not charge, is
made against the account when you first touch in. Nothing else reaches
your account until the end of the day when a single charge for the sum
of all the journeys made is collected and the 10p authorisation cancelled.

so what happens in the back office if the charge for 28.60 (the cap for
Shenfield to Zone 1) is rejected?

do I get free travel for the day

tim