Do you require custom gift cards, employee cards or loyalty cards for your retail store or restaurant?
You may be interested in knowing that all cards will not work with all software applications. Therefore, here are a few things to know before placing an order for card printing:
- Color of card stock
- Design of card available from your card vendor
- Programming codes required by the software you are using
- Some applications require specific characters before or after the card number so that their system identifies the card as a gift card, loyalty card, employee access card from a credit card. These programming codes can be found by asking your software provider. Be ready for some resistance from your vendor because they usually provide card programming themselves and may not release their codes to you!
- Card number you want the current batch to start at: ie: 1001 for Gift cards, or maybe 4001 for employee cards, etc. to be able to differentiate each type of card, if you wish.
- All cards should come with a barcode but you may want to add a magnetic stripe if required by your system or if you just want to use a MSR instead of a barcode scanner.
- Color of the text and image on the card (single-color or full-color ribbon needed).
- Pre-made image to be included on a custom card (JPG, GIF, PSD, etc. format)
- Text to be printed on the front (or back) of the card (restaurant name, address, phone, “10% discount for order over $100″, or other message needed).
- There may be other things to consider but this is just a place to start!
At POSGuys.com we print custom cards in quantities of 50 and up. We can provide all the information you need for your cards (except maybe the proprietary programming codes mentioned above if we do not already have them).
Also, we have a full-service design department to assist you!
Check out our site at http://www.posguys.com/custom_card_printing_60/
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