Card Fulfillment
Every card fulfillment represents an opportunity to establish your brand with your customer, build a relationship and open the door for profitable account usage, retention and up-sells. Wherever and however in the world your cards are delivered -- packaged for point of sale in retail locations, commercially boxed for corporate distribution, or individually created for personal delivery -- you need to balance cost with quality and efficiency. Your partners and cardholders want cards, materials and delivery services that are tailored to their specific needs, on their schedule and on their terms.
Full Service, Worldwide Capabilities
Wave Crest offers world-class, highly secure production services around the world that are Visa and MasterCard certified, along with specialty printing, packaging and delivery capabilities. We also handle the production and fulfillment needs of private label, closed-loop cards. Wave Crest can manage your card and materials manufacturing, as well as your card fulfillment needs efficiently, economically and end-to-end, so that you can focus on what matters most - your customers and partners. Our expertly trained and experienced staff can ensure that you stay ahead of marketplace imperatives, and can turn every fulfillment event into a relationship-building opportunity.
If you have your own internal or partner providers, we can also send card fulfillment files, designed to your file format specifications, to your provider locations.
Card and Materials Manufacturing
Wave Crest will work with your design and marketing staff to ensure that cards and materials project the quality brand image that your partners and customers deserve. We can source manufacturing on a worldwide basis, and deliver to the most appropriate card fulfillment vendors for your market and channel needs. We'll work with you to get the best prices, and insure that materials are in inventory on schedule. These materials include:
- » Cards
- » Card carriers
- » Activation stickers
- » Terms and Conditions
- » Marketing stuffers
- » Welcome kits
- » PIN mailers
- » J-hook packages
- » Delivery trays and cartons
Card Personalization and Delivery
The specifics of card fulfillment often vary based on the vertical market served, sales channel, regional or country-specific regulatory, infrastructure or cultural requirements. These combine with your program's unique needs based on cost, customer access and communications.
Wave Crest offers a broad array of fulfillment solutions to fit your operating model for initial cards, replacement cards and renewal cards:
- » Personalized plastic cards for individual delivery
- » Generic plastic cards for retail sales or for commercial bulk delivery and issuance
- » Virtual cards delivered over the internet or other mobile applications
- » Hybrid instant issue cards followed by personalized cards
- » Hybrid virtual cards followed by plastic cards
- » Combination open-loop, closed-loop and loyalty rewards cards
We help you tailor the card form factors for the environment and experience your customers need:
- » Magnetic stripe cards
- » Photo cards
- » Cardholder-personalized image cards
- » Mini-cards
- » RFID cards
- » Contact and contactless chip cards
- » Embossed or printed cards
- » Virtual card delivery
- » Combinations of these
Cards are configured based on how your products have been structured:
- » Signature or PIN authorization
- » Single-load or reloadable cards
- » Corporate or government funding, or consumer funding
- » Transitional between the above
