Transit Farecards (Presto/EasyGO/Others)

[danbrotherston]

Well, Presto has successfully stumped me.

Can anyone make any sense of the balance history I have right now?

Like, I can't even make the basic math work.  See the bottom two transactions...it's neither +25 nor +25 -5.30


   

[jamincan]

It's +25-3.10. You're right, it makes no sense at all.

[danbrotherston]

It's +25-3.10. You're right, it makes no sense at all.

Ahh, that's a TTC fare...

Yeah, I'm stumped...

I get to submit this as an expense report, I'mma let our finance department figure it out.

[ijmorlan]

They can’t even be bothered to indicate the sign of the operation on the display — “Load Amount” is “$25.00”; meanwhile “Fare Payment” is “$3.10”. I can only assume the authors of this POS (not “point of sale”) don’t use online banking, because every online banking site in the world clearly indicates whether a transaction is a credit or a debit. How do people like this find employment?

[tomh009]

How do people like this find employment?

There is always Presto.

[plam]

Hey, it's a 5 year old thread. Anyway, people complain about easyGO and Presto. NZ is paying about NZ$100M/year over 14 years (about C$80M/year) for a new card solution, though they estimate that the non-unified 4 cards they have now across the cities would still cost $50M/year.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-11-2...lmost-here