A study conducted by researchers at Michigan State University, along with vending and payment solutions provider USA Technologies, has found significant performance boosts in cashless-enabled vending machines as compared to units only accepting cash and coin. The report highlights the common practice of outfitting only high-volume machines with cashless technology, but the study’s findings suggest that low-performing vending machines can provide significant revenue growth once equipped with cashless hardware.

In 2017, the University of Georgia made the advancement of card technology a priority on campus. After long leaning on a combination of mag stripe and prox card technologies, the need to update and upgrade was more than evident. So UGA’s OneCard Oversight Committee examined its card environment from within, and focused its decision making on a desire to own the entire card system process — encryption keys and all.

Having launched CBORD’s Odyssey campus card solution years ago, student satisfaction has long been the catalyst for card system initiatives at Suffolk University. So when Suffolk needed a solution that both eliminated time-consuming, manual processes and also provided a single point of contact for both hardware and software queries, CBORD and Allegion stepped up to the plate.

Access control solutions provider, ASSA ABLOY, is presenting a free webinar discussing how Apple Wallet is enabling the University of Oklahoma to increase convenience and security on campus by issuing mobile credentials to students. In the webinar, Tyler Webb, Director of the Sooner Card at the University of Oklahoma will detail the university’s journey from traditional access control to mobile student IDs. The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, February 27th from 2:00PM – 3:00PM EST.

Pennsylvania’s Easton Area School District is set to expand its ScholarChip smart-card entry system to include campus visitors. The visitor management element joins area high school students who have been using the smart cards since the beginning of the school year.

Grand Rapids Community College has upgraded its RaiderCard, going contactless for a wide range of on-campus transactions. The changeover officially began December 17, with all students and employees now required to have the new, contactless RaiderCard as part of the college’s ongoing commitment to campus safety.

From coin to paper, paper to card, and now card to mobile, payment processors and consumers alike have seen dramatic changes in the way money is spent. But the trick has been keeping up with customer expectation. A recent Forbes writeup offers some considerations that could help businesses keep pace with their customers without unnecessarily increasing risk.