NScan for Membership Verification

We have successfully started testing with NScan at FTC and a need has arisen to tie NScan access to a unique barcode (printed on a badge) given to our members to verify current membership.

These badges will be on-hand and pre-printed. Printing out customer numbers is not an option; our current implementation utilizes a custom procedure to check for a customers membership status so I would like to keep that working the same way for solidarity.

To extend this to include non-standard numbers I will be appending B to the barcodes we print (B for badge). These numbers are to be scanned into a custom CSI by our box office staff upon selling a membership (this is where I need everyone's input-- is this the best way?) effectively tying a badge to a customer_no.

Next in the flow would be to just pass this customer number into the already created local procedure for verification.

I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas as to whether the CSI would be the best option here. I like this option as it allows the B/O to put multiple badges in at once for our over the phone/web sales just by having the customer number... but I'm open to any ideas!

Thanks everyone-

Chris