Help checking your contactless activity

If you see an error message after entering your card details, it will likely be for one of the following reasons:

• You entered your card details incorrectly (card number, expiry date or CVV)
• Your card has expired
• Your card does not have $1 credit available for the pre-authorisation fee
• Your card has been blocked by your financial institution (due to it being reported lost, stolen or suspected fraudulent activity)
• Your card has never been used for contactless payments on the Opal network
• You have used a Visa contactless payment card linked to a digital device

Transport Connect registered users

When you register your contactless credit or debit card with Transport Connect, you may also see an error message due to one of these reasons:

• You haven’t correctly verified your card details when you set up your Transport Connect account
• Your card has never been used for contactless payments on the Opal network or has not been used in the last 180 days
• Your card has already been registered to another Transport Connect account
• You have exceeded the number of attempts to register the card. You will be locked out for a period of time.

Why does it say ‘No activity to display’ when I have travelled?

You may see a 'No activity to display' message for one of the following reasons:

• No trips have been recorded on your card in the last 180 days.
• There has been a delay in your travel history processing. This may be because of network delays or during peak travel times when lots of trips are being recorded.
• It is the first time you have used your contactless card and you have only tapped on. Once you tap off your trip will be available to view.
  If you didn't tap off, an incomplete trip will be recorded. This will appear delayed on your travel history.
• If you have taken more than 10 trips with your contactless card on any single day of travel then you will see 'No activity to display'. We expect to be able to display more trips in the near future.

When checking your activity online, up to 50 of the most recent trips are able to be shown.

If you have an Transport Connect account, your trip information for the past 18 months will be visible, including dates, times, locations, benefits and discounts. All trips and payments will be listed individually and grouped by date.

Trips may take up to 24 hours to appear in your activity.

Trips are grouped by day, based on the Opal day which starts at 4am and ends at 3.59am the next day. The fare shown is inclusive of all Opal benefits and discounts applied.

If you do not have an Transport Connect account, you are required to enter your card details each time you access your activity online.

Every time you enter your card details, an authorisation check is done to verify the card. $1 is held by your financial institution and returned once your card has been verified within 5 minutes, although it may take up to 7 days for this to be reflected in your statement, depending upon your financial institution.

If you register your card with Transport Connect, an authorisation check is done only once when you set up your account. No authorisation checks are performed when you log into Transport Connect after your initial account set up.

Your personal information will be properly safeguarded and processed in accordance with the privacy and data protection legislation.

Detailed privacy and security information can be found in the Transport for NSW Privacy Statement and the Opal Privacy Policy.

If you believe you have been charged an incorrect fare, you may be able to request a reimbursement online.

You can apply for a reimbursement if you were:

• charged a default fare due to a service disruption or equipment outage
• unable to tap on or tap off due to an emergency evacuation or power or equipment outage
• charged an incorrect fare

Find out more on how to apply for a reimbursement online

Your card has been suspended for travel as you have a debt owing on your account. You did not have had sufficient funds to cover a fare or payment. You will need to pay your debt to re-activate your card.

Your card has been blocked. You will need to use a different credit or debit card on an Opal card to travel. You card may have been blocked by your financial institution or your card may have been blocked for being non-compliant on two occasions in the past 12 months.

If your digital device is linked to a Visa card and this is the exclusive method you have used to pay for contactless payments then you may see the following error message when you login to check your activity:

'Invalid card details check the details and make sure you're using a card that's been used to pay for travel'

To be able to see your travel history on this card, you will need to use the physical linked Visa card to make a contactless payment by tapping on and then off for at least one trip on the Opal network.

Once you have used the physical card on the Opal network, then all future travel, whether via digital device or physical card will be accessible via the website.

However please note that using the physical contactless payment card is considered a separate payment method from using the linked digital device and therefore each payment method is considered separate when calculating travel costs and any Opal benefits such as the daily or weekly travel cap. We recommend using your physical Visa contactless card for your first week of travel to ensure you collect all your Opal benefits and then you can use the linked digital device for all future travel.

If the card or device is not recognised when travelling, this means there is an issue with the card you are trying to pay with. The Opal reader will display a ‘Card Not Valid’ message with an error number. See more about error numbers and an explanation of what they mean.  

If you travel using contactless transport payments, your credit or debit card statement will contain charges for travel and can be used for tax purposes.

For your information, GST is included in the fare charged for all journeys accessed on your credit or debit card. Whilst Transport for NSW collects sufficient information to be able to accurately price trips and charge the correct account, for privacy reasons and to comply with credit card scheme rules, all data is encrypted and de-identified. Transport for NSW is therefore unable to provide tax statements to specific individuals based on the data we hold.

You may be interested to know that you can access your Contactless payment activity statements on Transport Connect.

1. Log into your account
2. Select the ‘Activity’ option
3. Click on the CSV Statements button and a statement will be sent to your email