We're about to specify passport-technologies.com. Add this box to an electric strike door, and tie into your membership app, which for us is MindBodyOnline.com, since they've already made an API for it.
contact: [email protected] Jerome ______________ BLANKSPACES "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" www.blankspaces.com 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 1450 2nd Street (@ Broadway), Santa Monica, CA 90401 323.330.9505 (office) On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Joshua Marpet wrote: > 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 > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > 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. -- 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.

