Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Adding dining options with Off Campus Solutions

Monday, June 28, 2010
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Gregory Baker, chief technology officer at Off Campus Solutions, talks about the company’s technology and how it’s different from other off campus programs at the 17th Annual NACCU Conference.

“The OCS offering is a little different, on the technology side especially, because of how we manage transactions,” Baker says. “We take terminal, put them into merchant locations or they can use their existing pos and write to our interface and our transactions go to a central processing unit which is part of a global processing center … so it never goes down.”

The pricing is a little different for OCS too. The company doesn’t charge for point-of-sales terminal and provide merchant portal so that the merchants can check the status of transactions and their accounts. “They like that because it’s a little love and we want to show them love,” Baker says.

Lake Superior College (LSC) in Duluth, Minn. has launched a new official campus ID dubbed the LSCPlus Card, an all-in-one swipeable card for students.

The LSCPlus Card will work similar to a debit card, storing any remaining student loan balances and work study, student employment payments. The new cards will also be used for access to campus services and functions, granting students’ library privileges, and a free Duluth Transit Authority (DTA) bus pass.

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Florida students have more payment options thanks to wireless WaveRiders

A new laundry payment and management system at the University of Florida accepts the GatorOne campus ID card as well as credit and debit cards.

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Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) has expanded its Bear Bucks Program to include Blueberry Hill, a local hangout restaurant and music club, according to an independent student newspaper.

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Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s head of Emerging Payments, has some good news for those waiting on NFC-enabled phones for contactless payments.

In an interview with Fast Company, McLaughlin said that he didn’t know of a handset maker who wasn’t working on integrating support for PayPass contactless payments.

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Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division, in partnership with Bridgeway Solutions, an identification and security solutions provider, has been chosen as one of South Carolina’s preferred system providers for electronic disbursement of financial aid refunds and payments to students.

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Keystone College, Pa. selected campus card service provider CardSmith and its managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) transactions solution for meal plans and discretionary account services on the college’s Key Kard campus ID.

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