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Transit cards, unemployment, health
and welfare benefits are but a few of the areas in which CoreCard's government solution
can help you reduce costs and improve service.
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Government Cards
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Government Product Manager |
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GOVERNMENT ENTITIES SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH PREPAID CARDS
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Employer to Employee
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Government to Consumer
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Payroll |
Social Security |
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Benefits |
Food Stamps |
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HSA/FSA |
Unemployment |
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Travel |
Transit |
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Fleet |
Medicare/Medicaid |
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Incentives |
Disaster Relief |
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Government entities of all types are searching for ways to control costs and provide
timely services to their constituents. Cutting checks to citizens and employees
is a costly and time consuming process. With the loss of tax revenue pressing hard
on all government entities, the search is on to find ways to save money. Many groups
are turning to prepaid card solutions to help control costs and raise level of service
they provide to their constituents.
Any place where a check is being used today is a great place to consider the use
of a government issued prepaid card. As an employer, government entities can find
further saving by using prepaid cards to handle everything from payroll to reimbursement
to benefits.
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CARD CONTROL IS DETERMINED BY THE PROGRAMS BEING OFFERED
CoreCard Software recognizes that there are many ways
to issue and account for money credited to a government issued prepaid card. Our
solutions are designed to support the types of cards being offered.
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Basic Prepaid Card Types
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Closed
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Open Loop
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Closed-loop cards are single payee cards. They can be used only at a specific location
or at the locations of a given payee — most gift cards fall into this category.
Open-loop or open "branded" cards are general-use prepaid cards, normally
branded with a card scheme logo such as MasterCard or Visa, which can be used like
credit or debit cards at most POS terminals. However, open-loop cards can be restricted
and become more closed at the behest of the issuer — by restricting the type
of merchant that the card may be used at either by business category or by store
brand. Such restricted cards are of use to service providers such as healthcare
providers and insurers that may want to use the cards to facilitate payout of funds,
while ensuring that those funds are spent in the appropriate manner at an appropriate
location.
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Reloadable
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Non-Reloadable
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Typical gift card programs tend to be single-load (or non reloadable) cards —
once the money is depleted, the card is no longer usable or reloadable. Reloadable
cards may have new funds added at a physical POS terminal or via the Web or phone.
One example of a successful reloadable prepaid card is the Starbucks card.
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Single
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Multi-Application
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This card type merges prepaid functionality with a multi application card. For instance,
the Starbucks Duetto card is a fully functioning Visa-branded credit card, as well
as a prepaid card. Cardholders can use it as a Visa credit card anywhere that Visa
is accepted, or as a reloadable Starbucks prepaid card at most Starbucks locations. |
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Multi-Payment
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This card type involves an underlying prepaid account that is supported by more
than the prepaid card. For instance, with Obopay in the U.S. and with Smart Communications
in the Philippines, the underlying prepaid account can be accessed by a mobile-phone
payment system, as well as a MasterCard-branded prepaid card. |
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Card Not Present
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Some prepaid cards can be used only in a card-present environment, while others
support CNP purchases - but usually they have restrictions, especially for
open-loop prepaid. For instance, the Italian post office's Postepay card can be
used to make purchases at Web sites that accept Visa cards, provided those Web sites
support online authorization.
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CORECARD CoreENGINE PROVIDES THE POWER OF SHARED COMPONENTS
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The CoreCard products are built to sit on top of our CoreENGINE platform, so that
the power of the shared components embedded in this platform is leveraged across
all of our products. The CoreENGINE platform provides instant fault-tolerance, scalability,
and ease of use. The CoreISSUE configured for Government solution is a solid
tool to help issuers and processers control of their card portfolios.
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Establishing a Government prepaid card program only requires configuration of the
various parameters and components to meet the requirements of the programs and products
being offered. CoreENGINE interfaces with industry standard third party programs.
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CORECARD’S CoreISSUE FOR GOVERNMENT PREPAID
CoreCard's CoreISSUE configured for Government Prepaid issuers and processors with
the most advanced and feature rich solution for issuing and managing Government
cards. Features include: |
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Account & Product Setup and Management
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Transaction Processing
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Credit Management
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Statement Processing
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Clearing and Settlement
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Exception Management
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Reports
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Customer Service
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Web Self-Service
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Multi-currency, Multi-language
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CORECARD’S SUITE OF PRODUCTS PROVIDES ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY
CoreCard can provide a complete Government solution if needed by adding one or more
of our other products that support dispute management, collections and sales. All
of the CoreCard products are built to leverage the power of the shared components
found in CoreENGINE.
CoreDISPUTE
CoreCOLLECT
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Champion/Challenger Recovery Strategies
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Case Management (automatic case presentment and case search facility)
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Collections Automation (letters, optional dialer interface, third party collectors)
CoreSALES
CoreCard's solutions feature easy to use parameter-driven controls and provide the
ability to set up any amount or type of programs to manage your transactions and
accounts. The Government solution can help issuers and processors realize
fast and measurable ROI, react rapidly to evolving market dynamics and product offerings,
and attract and retain lucrative programs.
PROCESS IN HOUSE OR LET CORECARD HANDLE THE PROCESSING
CoreCard gives issuers the option of processing their prepaid cards themselves,
or allowing CoreCard to handle the processing for them. Whichever method is chosen,
CoreCard will help each step of the way from configuration to delivery.
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