Membership Card

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

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

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.