Our highly adaptable software solution offers many encoding modules, as well as a Basic and Pro version of the Designer module. There is no limitation in combining those modules! Even our encoding modules are available independently from Designer Basic and Pro. Find out more about our Selection of Software to individually design, encode, print. Chip cards, RFID transponders, magnetic stripe cards or even smart cards.
Aside from card printers and various plastic card solutions, we at YouCard also keep the appropriate card software for every card and ID card printing or management system in stock. Our card software solutions enable you to design, print, personalize, manage and encode your individual ID cards, chip cards, RFID transponders, magnetic stripe cards or even smart cards. Among our spectrum of card software, you can find best-selling software such as CardPresso and Lobby Track (visitor and employee management software).
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CardPresso (Printing, Encoding, Personalization and more):
CardPresso is economically priced professional card software that allows you to easily design, encode and imprint plastic cards, magnetic stripe cards, chip cards and RFID cards. This card software is available in five different versions.
Lobby Track (Visitor and Employee Management):
The visitor management software Lobby Track from JollyTech is ideally suited for managing information of visitors and employees in medium-sized companies and large-scale enterprises. The card software Lobby Track manages several locations of an enterprise and allows you to directly print ID cards with it.
ID Flow (Printing, Encoding, Personalization and more):
The ID management card software ID Flow is specially coded for managing, imprinting and encoding ID cards in small – and medium – sized companies. ID Flow can directly be connected with your inventory control system, your human resources software and your access control system.
YouCard Software (YouCard YouChip, YouEvent, YouDMT and more):
Our customized card software solutions are individually programmed to fulfil every special requirements and wishes. Card printing, encoding, staff and visitor management, ticketing, accreditation, member and ID cards management and much more: Whatever you need, YouCard can support you with an individual software solution made by our experienced chip expertes and software development team.
The encoding for magnetic stripe data follows a common standard. The magnetic stripe consists of 3 physically separated 'tracks'. Track 1 is closest to the bottom of the card, and track 3 is the highest. Square's reader is positioned to read track 2. Track 2 is the most commonly used track, but most credit cards also use track 1. Track 2 includes card numbers and expiration dates. Track 1 includes that plus names. There may be other data too, depending on the particular card. These tracks are specced to be .11 inches wide, so to read track 1 with Square's reader, we just need to reposition the stripe so that track 1 is lined up with the read head.
Data in each track is encoded via magnetic domain flipping. Long story short: The series of domain flips encodes a waveform, that waveform is interpreted as binary. A binary 0 in this encoding is some arbitrary frequency. A 1 is twice that frequency.
The data starts with a set of leading zeros to establish the base frequency. After a variable number of zeros, the start sentinel appears. For track 2, the start sentinel is ';'. Each character is encoded as a integer with the least significant bits first. For track 2, each character consists of 4 data bits and 1 parity bit. The parity bit is set for each character so that the number of 1s is odd. If you add 48 (the ASCII encoding for '0') to the integer value for each character, you get the ASCII character to display. Other than the digits '0' through '9', track 2 can also encode some other characters, including ';' (start sentinel), '=' (field separator), and '?' (end sentinel). ':', '<', and '>' are not used much in practice.
Data in each track is encoded via magnetic domain flipping. Long story short: The series of domain flips encodes a waveform, that waveform is interpreted as binary. A binary 0 in this encoding is some arbitrary frequency. A 1 is twice that frequency.
The data starts with a set of leading zeros to establish the base frequency. After a variable number of zeros, the start sentinel appears. For track 2, the start sentinel is ';'. Each character is encoded as a integer with the least significant bits first. For track 2, each character consists of 4 data bits and 1 parity bit. The parity bit is set for each character so that the number of 1s is odd. If you add 48 (the ASCII encoding for '0') to the integer value for each character, you get the ASCII character to display. Other than the digits '0' through '9', track 2 can also encode some other characters, including ';' (start sentinel), '=' (field separator), and '?' (end sentinel). ':', '<', and '>' are not used much in practice.