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Buying insurance on line

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butterandjam Tue 17-Jun-25 22:46:53

We buy all our different insurances online.

You shoul be sent a copy of the policy. My recommendation for travel insurance, is to photocopy the policy and take that with you on hols, in case you need to contact them for help or claim while abroad. Leave the original safe at home. I also take a photocopy of our (open) passportsand leave one copy at home, take one copy with you. If a passport is lost or stolen while away from home, you've got all its details on hand.
itto travel details, flight booings s etc.

cc Mon 03-Mar-25 15:55:01

You may be able to find your policy on the insurer's site?

Ktsmum Mon 03-Mar-25 15:52:43

It may be an attachment to the confirmatiom e- mail, check right down to.the end of the page. If it's there you.should be.able to click on it to view it. Good luck

4allweknow Mon 03-Mar-25 15:08:24

I only yesterday bought holiday insurance. Received acknowledgent with policy details and all tge relevant information. One of the pages was actually an insurance certificate incase I need to prove I have insurance. Payment showed up within minutes on credit card. Cost was shown on the documents. If no money has come off your account you perhaps didn't finalise the whole transaction, its easily done. Contact the company.

MaggsMcG Mon 03-Mar-25 14:05:59

That goes for almost all insurances not just Travel. My household and car insurance policies are both the same.

MaggsMcG Mon 03-Mar-25 14:05:19

Lots of Insurance companies don't send policies in the post anymore they are often online in a Document folder when you log in. You can then print them off yourself.

Mollygo Mon 03-Mar-25 08:52:45

Babs03 has already given the advice I would have posted. I recently did our holiday insurance online and have all that documentation.
Good luck with your phone call this morning. I hope you get it sorted out.

Iam64 Mon 03-Mar-25 08:09:22

Hope you get this sorted Allsorts. I thought I’d bought something on line but it seems I’d pressed pay in my internet banking, saw it on screen so exited. I failed to wait for the confirmation on screen. My tech skills are poor

Allsorts Mon 03-Mar-25 07:50:47

Thanks to both of you for replying, I will be ringing them when they open at 9 am. I hope it's sorted quickly as very wary of buying anything on line in case I inadvertently press wrong key.

Babs03 Sun 02-Mar-25 19:03:10

Allsorts if you gave your email address you should have confirmation of the purchase of insurance and pdfs showing details of what is insured. If the insurer has a phone number would ring them tomorrow with your policy number to put your mind at rest. Also check your junk mail to see if confirmation has gone there with all other details.
Hope this helps x

M0nica Sun 02-Mar-25 18:55:24

No, they should send you a copy of your policy and you can check whether it has been paid by looking at your credit card, assuming that you operate your credit cards online.

Allsorts Sun 02-Mar-25 16:46:55

I have never purchased holiday insurance on line until now. Although, they sent me a link to open up my account once i had set up a password. I did that, and can get in and out of it, but there is no acknowledgement of the money paid on my credit card, just a policy number, there is nothing to press so I can see my policy or my original quote. Is this normal?