CreditCard narration to help sort

Hi

I am a regular user of your application. I use a credit card to pay (invariably the same card for all bookings). This has led to a problem that I wish you solve for me.

Some travel is personal, most is for my business. I would like you to provide a 10 character space that I am able to provide you in the application towards a credit card statement narrative. You can easily lop your present narration which looks like ‘CLEARTRIP TRAVEL SERVIMUMBAI’ to CLEARTRIP TRAVEL or to CLEARTRIP MUMBAI … allowing me (the user) enough space.

I will fill some string for my sorting and this helps identify the line items I claim from the business. Makes it easy for my accountant. We’re hitting a year end and he’s choked enough to complain today (I’d never have discovered his issue otherwise).

Please think about it. Useful.

regards,
dv

Thanks for the feedback dv. We’ve taken it on board and we’ll see what we can do. Though I seriously doubt that various payment gateways will allow this.

In the meantime you can try the “rename trip” feature and see if you can put it to good use. I’ve blogged about it here

Rename trip is useful only when you sort a calendar view. Trips are highly topical and one doesn’t revisit a calendar (the old parts).

My request is specific to a situation that typically happens 30-45 days later when the card statement shows up and someone other than the transaction owner is trying to sort.

All payment gateways will handle some merchant narration or transaction details field. The trick is for you to allow a user like me to give you some thing on the fly and send that appendage along with your info to the payment broker.

Eminently doable. Pl push.

- dv

dv—we’ve looked into this before, although for other reasons. Even if we did add this capability, the “narration” would not show up on your statement. Only the merchant name will show on your statement.

Your trips can be viewed as a calendar or as a list. If you choose the list view, you can see all of your upcoming and completed trips on a single page. You could use Saurabh’s “rename trip” trick and then just give your account a screenshot or a print-out.

Hope that helps.