More community colleges are beginning to adopt campus cards tied to prepaid accounts, as demonstrated by CardSmith LLC’s Feb. 7 announced deal in which it will support Southwestern Oregon Community College’s new card program.
The Laker One Card, which is the Coos Bay, Ore.-based school’s first picture identification card, enables cardholders to access campus facilities and manage and purchase food from a meal plan linked to a prepaid account, Doylestown, Pa.-based CardSmith said in a news release.
CardSmith processes the meal-plan transactions and provides cardholders with an online account center where they may view meal-plan transactions and benefits and manage account information. The school eventually plans to add more payment applications to the card, according to CardSmith.
Besides Southwestern Oregon, CardSmith supports the campus card programs of 14 other community colleges.
