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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

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  • $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.

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  • $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.

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