I dont know if anyone is using it, but they're pretty cheap to set up. If money is tight and tech skills are good, buy a reader from Dealextreme.com or ebay. Figure 80 bucks at most. Buy a crapload of cards for 50-100 bucks. write an access/mysql database to track card use. the readers simply act as a keyboard, so write a page where the writer keys in the digits on the card to a field which then pulls up a record from the db. add a digicam (webcam) and have pics of the members in the database to make sure cards aren't being passed around.
If money is not so tight, there are plenty of systems out there for not much money. But it might not do exactly what you want. Tradeoffs. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Bianca Rico <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure weve discussed this topic a couple of times, but in case, I > was wondering if any larger coworking spaces use swipe card systems like you > would use in a gym, in order to track members usage. We are looking into > this as we have 80 shared members and growing and we think this will help us > keep track. Asking members to track themselves just wont work for us in this > case. > > -- > Sincerely, > Bianca Rico > Client Services > MiamiShared.com > Tel: 305-929-8688, ext. 143 > Fax: 305-397-1250 > http://www.miamishared.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <coworking%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/coworking?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
