Construction · Staff identity · United Kingdom
One staff card.
Four everyday functions.
A construction company wanted its employee ID to do more: identify staff, support office sign-in, work with door access and share contact details. NFC Tagify brought these four functions together on a customised dual-chip card.
Four functions, one physical card
- 4 functions
- Identity, access, attendance and sharing
- 2 chips
- Separate access and business-card roles
- Custom QR
- The customer’s attendance identifier
Keep the familiar ID.
Add more ways to use it.
The customer already used staff cards with a photograph, name and job role. A personalised QR code on the card was scanned on an iPad at the entrance to sign in and out, and a separate access function supported entry to the offices.
The brief was to bring those requirements together with a digital business card. Staff would carry a recognisable company ID that also supported the customer’s existing attendance process, door access and contact sharing.
NFC Tagify worked from the supplied branding and ID requirements, including the layout, colours, employee details and the specific content needed inside the attendance QR code.
Two chips.
Four distinct jobs.
The dual-chip card separates access credentials from the digital business-card function. The printed ID and attendance QR provide two additional ways to use the same physical card.
| Visual identity | Company-branded printing with an employee photograph, name and job role. |
|---|---|
| Door access | A dedicated MIFARE DESFire access chip, activated and managed by the customer within its access-control system. |
| Attendance | A printed QR code containing the employee-specific text identifier required by the customer’s sign-in system. |
| Contact sharing | A separate NTAG213 chip linked to the employee’s digital business-card profile, opened by tapping with a compatible phone. |
The product configuration used for this solution combines MIFARE DESFire 2K and NTAG213 within a custom-printed PVC card. The access chip and business-card chip have different jobs; the attendance QR is another distinct part of the setup.
The right QR content.
For the right employee.
The attendance system required an employee-specific text-and-number identifier. It was not a link to the public business-card profile. NFC Tagify confirmed the required QR content with the customer and reproduced it in the printed card design.
That distinction matters. Scanning the printed attendance QR supports the customer’s sign-in process; tapping the business-card chip opens the employee’s digital profile for contact sharing.
The personalised production workflow brings together the person’s printed identity, photograph, attendance identifier and digital profile. For team orders, employee data and QR values can be supplied together in a spreadsheet so each record can be matched to the correct design and business-card encoding.
This makes QR generation part of the card production brief: the code must contain the information the customer’s system expects, rather than automatically using a standard profile link.
We supply the card.
You control access.
NFC Tagify supplied the customised cards with the access chip embedded. The customer’s own administrator handled access-chip enrolment and activation in its existing system. Access permissions remained under the customer’s control.
During preparation, the customer shared reader specifications and information about its existing access cards. Customised dual-chip samples were then produced for demonstration and testing, including the ID design and attendance QR.
Matching a chip family is part of assessing a project, but the reader, system configuration and enrolment requirements also matter. Compatibility should be checked with the customer’s access-system administrator and confirmed with a sample before a wider order.
One physical card.
A connected working day.
- A recognisable employee ID with the customer’s branding and personalised printed details.
- An attendance QR in the required format for the existing sign-in and sign-out process.
- An embedded access chip for enrolment and permissions managed by the customer.
- A separate digital business-card chip for sharing the employee’s contact details.
- Customised samples and a tailored production setup developed around the customer’s existing requirements.
The completed solution, confirmed by NFC Tagify’s project team following the later phone discussions, brought four everyday functions onto one card. It connected custom printing and digital profiles with the customer’s existing attendance and access arrangements.
Customer identity is withheld for confidentiality. Access-system administration remained with the customer. No rollout quantity, security certification or universal reader compatibility is claimed.