More than just a printing company

We develop card ordering software that allows you to:

integrate card ordering into your sites and apps
use your platform to distribute ID badges individually
earn revenue on cards without redirecting to an outside URL

API	Individual card ordering

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We have developed ALL of our card printing software in-house to make sure our clients can get the best, most efficient ID Badge ordering experience out there.

This means we have more to offer than card printing. We have opened up our API to external developers to allow integration of our software into web applications.

We want you to get the most out of the InstantCard system. Sometimes that means developing your own applications. We make available all of our API endpoints used for our online card ordering system. That way you may develop your own apps based on our system. For a full list of available endpoints, please reference the full API documentation.

The InstantCard API was developed with certain workflows in mind. For example, in creating a card we developed a system designed to create a draft, preview that draft, and update if needed before any sort of finalization. To view some example workflows, simply use the links to the right. These highlight those endpoints most often used by clients using our API.

We are constantly updating our API based on the needs and requests of customers. If there is something your organization needs that you cannot find in the full API documentation, please contact us.

Your authentication token is a required parameter for all subsequent calls. Similarly to card creation, a print job must be finalized before its cards are sent to the printer. This allows print jobs to be modified before being finalized. It also facilitates having a “shopping cart” while a user continues to add cards.

Create Print Job • Use the CREATE A PRINT JOB → endpoint to create your print job. Cards may be added during creation, later, or both.
Add Cards to Print Job • Use the ADD CARDS TO A PRINT JOB → endpoint to add more cards to the print job you already created.
Select how many copies of each card • Use the UPDATE PRINT JOB → endpoint to select how many copies you would like of each card in the print job. Note: Every card in a given print job will have the same number of copies applied to it. If you need a different amount of a given card, create a separate print job for that card.
Select your shipping provider • Use the FETCH SHIPPING PROVIDERS → endpoint to list all available shipping providers. • UPDATE PRINT JOB → with your desired shipping provider ID.
Select a Delivery Address • Use the FETCH ALL ADDRESSES → endpoint to retrieve all available shipping addresses. • Create a new shipping address if the required address is not listed using the CREATE SHIPPING ADDRESS → endpoint. • If you need to use a one-time address (i.e. you do not want it save for future use) you may use the UPDATE PRINT JOB → endpoint to add one-off shipping address details to the print job.
Check Account Balance • Use the CHECK BALANCE → endpoint to make sure there are enough funds to cover the print job before submitting. • If the account needs replenishing, use the ADD FUNDS → endpoint.
Submit Job for Print Production • Use the SUBMIT PRINT JOB → endpoint to submit the print job for print production. Note: Orders placed before 4PM EST are printed and shipped same day, so it is important to verify that a print jobs details are correct before submitting.

← Overview

Example Workflows

← Authentication

← Create a Card

← Checkout

View the full API documentaion

Not a developer?

That’s OK.

We developed our Individual Card Ordering as a turn-key solution
to integrate card ordering into any external site or app.

The InstantCard ICO lets you easily integrate card ordering into your own website. The system allows you to choose whether individuals pay for cards themselves at checkout, or if the cost should be deducted from your organization’s InstantCard account. Cards are sent to any address entered within the US.

This allows you to do several things without any knowledge of coding:

Easily distribute membership cards
Keep visitors on your website even when ordering badges
Have remote contractors order badges to their own addresses
Create a revenue stream from cards on your website
Appear as the distributor of a given ID/badge

← Overview

← Example Code

← Working Example

← Options

View the full ICO documentaion

Technical Support Services

We provide your webmaster with simple instructions on how to interface your website with our server. Our technical team can provide advice and guidance, and we can even provide special code for handling such tasks as picture uploading and photo cropping. This is our specialty, we’d love to work with you!

Full documentation is available which provides the detailed commands for communicating with our system. The InstantCard service can be accessed via either (a) advanced APIs using REST and JSON. Click here to see the API documentation →

Program Advantages

Web services can be a very inexpensive, yet high-profile way to build the brand identity of a national association, and to increase the value to members by facilitating their ability to show credentials and qualifications. It can make it very easy to implement a company-wide ID card program, especially for organizations whose members are dispersed geographically.

Above all, it avoids the overhead of setting up an in-house production process which can be expensive to operate and slow to respond to the variable nature of the demand for ID Cards.

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