Plastic Membership Card Types

     Plastic Membership Card is now the most popular service management mode for retail business. The company logo or various patterns can be printed on the plastic membership card. It's equivalent to the company's business card and is a better tool to impress your customers and increase their engagement with your business. Plastic Membership Cards can also play a role in attracting new customers, retaining old customers, enhancing customer loyalty, and also achieving discounts, points, customer management and other functions, which is a truly feasible way to increase benefits. So a professional and unique plastic membership card is important for your business.

Plastic Membership Card Types
     Most of the plastic membership cards can be divided into magnetic stripe card, barcode card, ID card or IC card. Let's take a look at our plastic membership card types to show you what we mean:

(1) Membership Barcode Card

     Barcode card is a type card printed with a QR Code or Barcode on the back, which can be read by a barcode scanner. A barcode card is simply a number and contains no other content. If you only record the membership card number, barcode card is a good choice.

(2) Membership Magnetic Stripe Card

     Magnetic stripe card, similar to a bank card, is a type card printed with the dark strip of magnetic material on the back, which is read by swiping past a magnetic reading head. A magnetic stripe is simply a number and stores no other content.      The magnetic stripe card that has three tracks and can record different information is stronger than the barcode card in security. When using a magnetic card to realize membership management, the form of membership savings, points or discounts is realized through software.

(3) Membership IC Cards

     IC card, similar to a bus card, is an integrated circuit card, which uses radio frequency technology to communicate with the card reader that supports the IC card. Compared with magnetic cards, the cost of IC cards is generally higher, but the confidentiality is better. The IC card itself has a chip, which is divided into different types of cards according to the capacity of the chip.
     Regardless of the cost, if it's a high-end club that needs to store a large amount of money in the membership card, it is best to choose an IC card for security reasons. If it's an ordinary club, plastic or restaurant, a magnetic card is sufficient.

(4) Membership ID Cards

     ID card, similar to an access control card, is a contactless plastic card, which can be read by a card reader and can only read the card number. The ID card itself does not store anything else.

     There are the following smart chips for ID cards and IC cards:
     IC chips: F08, S50, S70, ISSI, 4439, 4442, 4428, 4412, 24C series chips;
     ID chips: domestic TK4100, IDUA1001, EM4100, low frequency T5577 and other chips.

     The international standard size is 85.5×54mm, the size is exactly the same as the bank stored value card and credit card. Different sizes or shapes is available for your membership card to stand out. You can also add various print options to make a plastic membership card look more beautiful and elegant, such as glossy finish, matte finish, frosted finish, spot UV, hot stamping, color printing, laser code, spray code, UV code and other processes.

     SmartOne is a plastic card manufacturer with 20 years of experience in card production and we have a professional design team for creating various custom plastic membership cards to meet all your requirement. With no minimum order requirements, we can produce your cards quickly. If you have any questions about plastic membership cards, feel free to contact us, [email protected] we will respond within 24 hours or less!