TK Advantage Single Copy Management System Electronic Mechanisms

Sho-Rack Smart Card
Allowing you to buy a newspaper
without money in your pocket

Smart Card

Unique Customer Code for each customer

Smart Card may be charged up to $50.00 in 25¢ increments

Smart Card may be recharged an additional 63 times after the first time

Expiration date for Subscription sales or Cash Value

Charges are deducted from the card in 25¢ increments

The smart card is one of the latest additions to the world of information technology. Similar in size to today's plastic payment card, the smart card has a microprocessor or memory chip embedded in it. The chip stores electronic data and programs that are protected by advanced security features. When coupled with a reader, the smart card has the processing power to serve many different applications. As an access-control device, smart cards make personal and business data available only to the appropriate users. Another application provides users with the ability to make a purchase or exchange value. Smart cards provide data portability, security and convenience.

Contact smart cards must be inserted into a smart card reader. They have a small gold plate about ½" in diameter on the front, instead of the a magnetic strip on the back like a credit card. When the card is inserted into a smart card reader, it makes contact with electrical connectors that transfer data to and from the chip.