CardExchange Ultimate software combines advanced card design capabilities with high-level ID data management via native or ODBC databases. Ultimate software also lets you produce ID cards with contactless encoding for MIFARE or DESFire and Biometric and ID Scan features. Key features include:

• Python Scripting lets you customize your CardExchange Ultimate exactly to your needs
• Contactless Encoding for MIFARE Classic and DESFire cards, inlcuding DESFire EV1 
• Biometric enrollment, verifications, record lookup, and record display features
• ID Scan storage and print features
• Connectivity to any database, including MS SQL and Oracle, via ODBC
• Automatic Print Server automatically prints badges based on changing database values
  
• Configurable filters allow you to choose specific ID records
• Live MS Access and Excel connectivity 
• Login and user security functions for an unlimited number of Users and User Groups
  
• Advanced ID security options for 2D, 1D Barcodes, magnetic stripe cards, UV printing, and Signature Capture
• Multiple layouts for more than one ID card design
• Intuitive WYSIWYG Windows-based interface 
• Easy drop-and-drag editing tools with advanced graphic design capabilities for formatting text, images and logos
• Handy step-by-step Card Creation Wizard with Unlimited Design Templates
• Twain support for uploading ID photos from a digital camera
• Free End-User Support Forum and Lifetime Updates

CardExchange offers several versions of its ID software which feature additional capabilities, including:

CE8020 - Go (Internal MS Access DB with 200 records/Basic Card Design Functions)

CE8030 - Premium(MS Excel & Access Database Connectivity/Batch Printing/Advanced Photo Options)

CE8040 - Professional (Any database via ODBC/Auto Print Server/Advanced DB Functions)

Regardless of which version you choose, all CardExchange software features:

Easy from the startCreate the perfect ID card for your needs in a simple and fun way. Preloaded templates and the handy Card Creation Wizard mean you can create a card in just a few clicks. CardExchange also features drag and drop editing so you can easily add ID data fields to your card layout without all of the complicated manual field mapping that other software programs require.

Advanced design toolsChoose fonts and add images, graphics, barcodes and magnetic stripe data to your card design layout. Powerful graphic tools let you resize and rotate objects on your card, apply graphic enhancements, remove backgrounds from images and create variable images - all with a simple point and click. You can even control the text: how it looks, merge fields, and have an image background in the text field. Move everything around on the layout with WYSIWYG ease until you create the card you want.

Limitations unknownCustomize your CardExchange software only as you need additional features. CardExchange can easily be upgraded with various modules and external plug-ins options including Python Scripting language, database connectivity options and security login protocols -  to fit your organization's card issuance program.