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Membership Card

Dara Hogan
$organization

Hi,

Does anyone out there use a plastic (credit card style) membership card?

 

Currently we have a card that you tear out of an A4 page so its printed via an A4 printer.

We are looking at changing to a plastic card, a bit like a high street store loyalty card.

 

Wondering if anyone uses cards like this and what software you use to print into to them and if you integrate with Tessitura?

 

Also interested in other uses of these such as scanning with POS for discounts at bar, tracking bar & merchandise purchases, etc?

 

thanks,

 

Dara

  • $organization

    Dara…

     

    Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa has permanent plastic membership cards that have bar codes for both the household and individual records. 

     

    Philbrook doesn’t use Tessitura for Admissions, but since we are a Consortium I scanned my personal Philbrook membership card at the Woody Guthrie Center admissions desk and it worked.

     

    Contact Stephanie Madsen (smadsen@philbrook.org) for more information on the software/printer used – I don’t think she follows this forum.

     

    Barbara Pinney

    Consortium Manager

     

    Tulsa Arts Management Consortium / 401 S. Boston Ave Ste 500 / Tulsa, OK 74103

    bpinney@tamc-tulsa.org  / 918.409.9639

     

    www.philbrook.org / www.tulsaballet.org / www.tulsaopera.com / www.tulsasymphony.org / www.woodyguthriecenter.org

     

     

    From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Dara Hogan
    Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 11:00 AM
    To: Barbara Pinney
    Subject: [Tessitura Development Forum] Membership Card

     

    Hi,

    Does anyone out there use a plastic (credit card style) membership card?

     

    Currently we have a card that you tear out of an A4 page so its printed via an A4 printer.

    We are looking at changing to a plastic card, a bit like a high street store loyalty card.

     

    Wondering if anyone uses cards like this and what software you use to print into to them and if you integrate with Tessitura?

     

    Also interested in other uses of these such as scanning with POS for discounts at bar, tracking bar & merchandise purchases, etc?

     

    thanks,

     

    Dara




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  • $organization

    Dara:

     

    We have a plastic membership card for our donors here at the Science Museum. We use a Datacard printer and print their ID number, names, and a barcode for scanning their ID number on it in black ink. I know there are color printers as well, but we didn’t go that route. 

     

    We use the standard Print Acknowledgement Letters report and just have a customized letter type for our membership cards. Then, we simple merge the data into a template for the cards and print – it’s actually very simple.

     

    The hardest part for you would likely be setting up the templates and customized letter type. Our membership cards are fully integrated for ticketing purposes, but we’re currently working on integrating the barcode scanner with our restaurant vendor in order to start importing the sales amounts to the constituent records. If you have more questions, feel free to email me: lkyllonen@smm.org.

     

    Good luck!

     

    Laine

     --

    Laine Kyllonen

    Database Application Specialist

    Science Museum of Minnesota

     

    (651) 221-2515

  • $organization

    We also use plastic membership cards.   We use a card printer called  Evolis and the type is Primacy.   Then we pull a list and import those names with the data we want printed on the cards.  

    http://www.evolis.com/eng/Products/Card-printers/Evolis-Primacy

  • $organization in reply to Sandra Berschauer

    ACMI also uses an Evolis card printer to make hard plastic membership cards. I export a list to a spreadsheet that so the card printer uses columns as fields for its template. The same software has a higher version that connects directly to databases, but we haven't needed that much power for the number of cards we print. There is a greater capacity for error with the spreadsheet intermediary though, which has caught us out a couple of times.

    When we print the cards, we place a prefix of 'C' before the constituent ID. We use that prefix to program barcode scanners around the building. We use this for:

    • Scanning at the ticket desk. When the barcode reader sees a Cxxxxx number, it enters the numbers after the C prefix and then automatically tabs forward to the source field.
    • The scanners at POS locations without Tessitura are programmed to capture numbers with the C prefix in a special place that we can report on for later importing back into Tessitura.
    • We have a customised N-Scan procedure that TN developed for us that will treat the C prefixed numbers differently for a workflow that allows managing entry to an event with just a membership card rather than a standard Tessitura ticket.

    Hope that helps, we love having scannable constituent IDs.