There are some kinds of plastic cards classification:
Discount plastic cards
– so called cards of reduction. This is most spread kind of plastic cards. By the way of motivation, they enable to increase volume of sales, and noticible raise profit of your company with minimum of cost.
Insurance cards
– are used as discount cards, because there is supposed to grant dicount when insurance service is payd, they are also used as equivalent of insurance policy.
Club plastic cards
– they are practicaly visit cards of privileged members of club, casino, restaurant, bar, fitness-centre and so on.
Gift cards (gift certificates)
– are the new kind of service on market, that is provided to commercial and service companies. They enable to receive payment in advance, for the guaranted purchase or service in future, as well as to atract buyers, and increase popularity and reputation of company.
Identification cards
– they are executed as plastic cards and can be used as a document, identity papers, that enables proof the identity of the holder.
Magnetic cards
– plastic cards, where an information is holded on magnetic strip. Recorded information is coded record of personal data of its owner.
Visit cards
– plastic cards, containing data: family, name, position of the holder in company, and contact with him. Thanks to their elegance, originality and long service life, plastic cards are surely more advantage than the usual kartboard ones.
Advertising cards
– they are means of advertisment. They are usualy manufactured in the manner of strongly individual special cards, that are aiming to atract attention of each individual potencial customer. The plastic advertising card bear information of your company, about its services, and it also fulfils function of invitation for your customer.
Transport cards
– they are used as a traveling bill. They are performed as plastic cards, because of their advantage and practical properties. They can be used for payment of travelling by metro, rail way, as well as other kinds of transport.
Fuelling cards
– the plastic payment cards, edited by Fuel company, or fuel stations owner. It is assigned for credit transfer at the fuel stations, as well as goods and services. Fueling cards are widely used at the fuel stations all over the world. We can often see discont fueling cards, that give right for discount, supplementary services, and bonuses.
Lottery card
– it is used for lottery performance, to draw prices. This card as a draw for buyer, could be motivated factor, which atracts attention to planed advertisment action in your company. Lottery card is performed like standard scratch card, where one, seldom two data fields are covered by safety foil, which can be wiped by coin.
Smart cards (cards containing microprocessor)
– they are plastic cards with embedded microprocessor – microprocessor chip. They enable to save, and to process as well as protect large quantity of information from unauthorized entry. Due wide posibilities they found application practicaly in all areas of activities. Smart cards are widely used as credit cards, transport cards (travell payment in metro), identification cards (permit cards for entry to company) and so on.
Contactless smart cards
– they are the plastic cards, where information is saved in embedded microprocessor chip. There are informations of card holder. All data inwritten in chip are scaned by special equipment (reader). Reading is anabled by means of unique digital code, that is saved in the memory of smart card's chip. It is emmising in the range of radio wave.
Prepayment cards
– the plastic cards, edited by commercial companies for express payment of services provided by them: internet-cards, telephone-cards, fuel cards and so on. Informations on this type cards are saved usualy in microprocessor - micro chip, or placed under scratch field.
Insurance plastic cards
- insurance police, performed as plastic card, found high popularity between insurance companies, that take care of satysfying their clients, as well as their image. There are some decisions in this area, which differs by the way of personalization (insertion of individual data). Personalization can be performed both by insurance company and special printing company. Plastic insurance police can be delivered as only card, or together with colour booclet, which can be also equiped by personal data, for example a list of medical points, which are serving to the insurance company's clients.