Schools and Educational institutions can save money by using a single photo ID card to serve a multitude of applications. A single student ID card serves first and foremost as a form of identification, but can also be used for school food service account management, access to computers and technology facilities, access control for athletic facilities, and Schools and student activity attendance tracking.

With an onsite ID system student, faculty, staff and visitor IDs can be produced on-demand using a photo ID card printer, with very little wait time. Students can have their photos taken and receive their printed ID cards within minutes—without involving an outside vendor and the time and cost involved in dealing with one.

Photo ID cards serve to visually identify students, staff and visitors at a glance. There are countless techniques for adding visual verification and security to your school photo ID cards. A basic level of security can be incorporated onto your cards simply within its design, but rather than just putting a photo on a plain white background, which can easily be replicated fraudulently, consider using custom imagery or holographic overlaminates on your cards. To further easily distinguish between students, faculty and other staff, incorporate a color-coding system into your card design. Be sure to use self expiring badges for campus visitors. These temporary ID cards cannot be reused after the day for which they have been issued, and visually show to be expired after their approved allotted time (1 hour, 1 week, 1 month, etc..).

Multi-use ID cards with a printed barcode or encoded magnetic stripe can be used to manage your school lunch program as well as library check-out system. Any form of readable technology on a student ID card can store such student information as emergency contact information, medical history (medications or allergies), and lunch account balances. With multi-use ID cards schools can track student attendance as well as transaction data reports from school cafeteria purchases.
 

School lunch programs can be automated using encoded technology on ID cards to store student account numbers. When a lunch is “purchased” and an ID card swiped, the dollar amount of the lunch is deducted from the card account balance. A magnetic stripe reader such as a scanner or swiper would be used with a magnetic stripe card. In addition to lunch account management, a magnetic stripe can also be used for authorized entrance into to school activities, making healthy vending machine purchases, and making activities fee payments.

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