Smart Cards Improve Gold Club Membership Services And Management Controls

 

Customer:

The Pau Billere Golf Club, a private club located in the southwest of France near the Pyrenees Mountains has some 4000 yearly members and hosts approximately 12,000 rounds of golf per year.

Challenge:

Faced with increasing membership leading to greater demands on the course and facilities, the Club sought a method to improve management controls and provide more efficient services for its golfers.

   

Product:

Eltron's P310C printer with Smart Card contact station. P310 Series printers come standard with Windows™ drivers and WindCard™ software. Their surprisingly small footprint and easy-loading, minimal maintenance design make desk-top operation simple and efficient. They print sharp, readable bar codes, graphics and text in less than five seconds. Optional features include magnetic stripe and Smart chip encoding.

All P Series on-demand plastic card printers offer sharp 300 dpi print resolution. Durable design features give you full color value or monochrome economy, and assure the portability necessary for on-demand personal identification card printing.

Use P310 printers to print:

  • Membership cards
  • Visitor and employee badges
  • Identification and access control cards
  • Student identification cards

Result:

Pau Billere opted to use a smart card for its members with its logo, contact information and a microprocessor chip. Full Membership and Subscriber (Seasonal) cards bear a personalized photo, while the trainee and visiting player cards do not.

Once the member's card has been activated, he or she can circulate freely around the site, use such smart-card-controlled equipment as golf ball dispensers, and use card readers for purchases at the bar, restaurant and pro shop.

With this system now in full swing, the Club merely recredits the personalized cards at the reception area using a computer and the P Series printer. Since much less cash is exchanged on the club's premises, fraud and vandalism have been reduced. The new system has the added advantages of storing information about the player, such as handicap, competition entries or preferred tee times.