Doylestown, PA:
CardSmith announced today that it
has implemented its card program
management service at
three (3) continuing care retirement
communities in North Carolina (2)
and Virginia (1) managed
by United Church and Home Services (UCHS).
Under the program, residents of the
UCHS
facilities are issued personalized
cards with pre-paid spending
accounts that can be used at points
of sale across the facilities. UCHS
has a custom web-based transaction
solution without local
systems or software of any kind.
Residents have 24/7 access to
accounts through a dedicated
cardholder account center.
"We are launching a third campus and
have been pleased with results to
date." said Brantley
Larew, Director of Information
Technology for UCHS. "The program is
off to a very good start,
and the CardSmith team is very
professional and has an excellent
track record with our facilities
startups. Our residents like the
card program, and we plan to expand
this service out to more of
our locations over time. We chose
the CardSmith system after a
referral from our Point of Sale
vendor (Halo). We had evaluated
several CCRC specific Point of Sale
systems that would have
cost about $100,000 to roll out, yet
we get all the same if not more
features with CardSmith for a
fraction of that cost. The CardSmith
system is very flexible and can
manage our Meal Plans,
billing resident accounts, payroll
deductions, etc that only require
the person at the register to
swipe the card. There is no need to
train personnel to use one button
for one type of
transaction/tender and a different
button for a different type of
transaction/tender, which really
helps generate an accurate billing.
In the future we will likely roll
out the CardSmith services to
include other charge services, such
as vending machines and activities
the residents attend."
"Our installations with UCHS are the
first for CardSmith outside our core
education markets"
said CardSmith President Jay P.
Summerall. "UCHS’ facilities have
many similarities with
educational campuses, and their
residents receive the same value and
benefits of a ‘cashless
campus’ that our education customers
do. We’re very pleased to be working
with UCHS staff to
deliver this service to their
residents."
About CardSmith:
CardSmith is a campus card solutions
company serving educational
institutions, campus service
providers, cardholders,
card-accepting merchants, private
label card issuers and closed loop
communities nationwide. The company
provides the market’s only ASP
transaction
management solution and turn-key
program management service,
delivering superior capability,
service and performance for less
than 50% of the cost of proprietary
campus card systems. For
more information, visit
www.card-smith.com.
About UCHS:
The mission of United Church Homes
and Services is to carry on
Christian ministry in the
Southern Conference of the United
Church of Christ that adds life to
the years of those we serve
by providing senior living and
health related communities,
benevolence assistance and service
programs of outreach into the wider
community. For more information,
please visit
www.uchas.org.
