Re:Ask HN: paperless receipts
by timthorn on Friday March 11, 2011 @10:39AM
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It wouldn't be hard for eg the Nectar card in the UK to be extended to support this. The principal use case I see is for expense submission rather than personal accounting; rather than having to photocopy each receipt and send them all to finance, log on to the loyalty card website and tick the transactions that need to be shared with one's employer.
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Re:Ask HN: paperless receipts
by timrobinson on Friday March 11, 2011 @10:43AM
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Do Nectar currently provide this information to customers? If they did then you could put together a quick hack that scraped their web site for the data.
The information available goes down to transaction level. I get the store name and location, date and amount spent for every purchase.
What is missing is a description of the line items, which would be required for expense reports. It's all very well me saying I spent £20 at Sainsbury's, but my company would want to know what on...
Re:Ask HN: paperless receipts
by timrobinson on Friday March 11, 2011 @10:54AM
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Right: I'd imagine that in order to persuade companies (i.e. corporate expenses departments) to accept these receipts, they'd have to be convinced that they were the same as the paper originals.
Indeed - and more importantly, HMRC (the tax office) would need to accept their integrity. But, Nectar is a sufficiently large organisation as to be able to offer such assurances and for corporates to accept their word - backed up by contractuals, I'm sure!