Time taken to bill a contactless tube journey

lr1277

Last Friday I took the tube from Kings Cross to Hammersmith. I used my contactless credit card at both ends of the journey. The journey has not yet appeared on my credit card's online transaction list.

I have looked on the LU website and it says 3 working days but we seem to be past that.

Do you have any idea/experience how long this billing process takes?

Metrocammell

I find mine normally show the next day.
You could create an account on the tfl website and put your card details on the account, you can then view all previous journeys made and that should already be showing.

MattMattMattUK

Mine usually appears two working days after the journey. So a journey in Monday would show on Wednesday in the card app/online and the TFL website.

spenderdave

Has it appeared on the TFL contactless site - you need to set up an account and register that card if you have not done so yet. It should show in your recent journeys.

lr1277

Thanks for the advice and suggestion. Will give creating an account a go.

born_again

Card regulations give them 6 months to apply the amount to your bank account.

Nasqueron

The TfL account is useful to have for expense receipts too

MyRealNameToo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6659246/time-taken-to-bill-a-contactless-tube-journey

Were you doing other travel on TFL travel that week (Mon-Sun)? TFL have caps so once you hit the cap nothing else is charged unless you venture into a new zone by Overground or Underground

lr1277

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81920384#Comment_81920384

Maybe. I live in Hertfordhire so took the (Great Northern) train into London on Friday to return on Saturday. When I went to the ticket office to buy the ticket, I was told it was cheaper to use my contactless card than to buy a return ticket. So I did use my card on the outward and return journeys.

And I used the card for 1 tube journey on the Friday. I did not take the tube on Saturday.

So I have 2 entries on my online statement. One for £11 something and another for £8 something. I assumed both were for the train journeys and I would be billed separately for the tube journey. But on reviewing my online credit card account, those 2 journeys are listed under Tfl. Also because the journeys were on Friday and Saturday, both transactions were applied to my account on the Monday.

Is it possible the £11 something bill included the train and tube journeys that day?

Sorry I didn't put all this in the initial post as I didn't know the billing might be combined because it is the same 'travel company'

lr1277

Thanks for the tip about logging onto the TfL contactless site. I signed in and registered my credit card.

On looking up the journeys against my card: The train and tube journeys on the Friday and the train journey on Saturday are all listed.

Many thanks again. And it is much cheaper than paper tickets and possibly cheaper than Oyster.

Nasqueron

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81920493#Comment_81920493

it's the same price with oyster but you don't need the minimum top-up where you end up with them holding your money. We had to use oyster for ages as we couldn't submit credit card bills as receipts for spending, once they let you link your CC to your account then it was perfect