Often the contactless card that a site uses is also used for other systems, such as door access or cashless catering. Whoever provided these systems is often using other sectors on the cards to hold information. This data is encrypted and will often only be able to be read by the readers provided with the system and some middleware to decrypt the data. This is fairly common and PaperCut is more than happy to work alongside these systems as it will simply read the serial number from the card (in sector zero).
PaperCut and the other system won’t know or care about each other they can both read different numbers from a card, but allow you to login to different systems using the same card.

One thing to note is that if a cashless catering system is in use and a purse is held on the card, that money is just used for the catering. PaperCut keeps its own “funds” in its database and the catering software keeps its funds in its own database.  It may be possible to integrate the two stores of money but this requires customisation. Please <a href="/contact/">contact us</a> for further information.

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