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ALIVE Platform Bulletin #17

ALIVE Platform Bulletin #17

Created by Nikoleta Perry
Last updated: 22.04.2022
3 min read

Posted on 26. February 2021 by Lukas Vit

Dear issuer,

welcome to the ALIVE Platform bulletin that informs you about upcoming changes. 

This year will bring many changes and new functionalities into the ALIVE Platform. We want to stay relevant with modern technologies, keep the pace and reflect changing needs of you –  our clients. The majority of these changes is connected to digital cards usage. 

Besides constantly working on the backend improvements, we are also preparing changes that will be visible to you and that (hopefully) will bring improvements to your business. The most important changes that will be deployed in following weeks are listed below.

 

NCDB 

New Card Designer & Batch Card Printing 

The most visible change is complete redesign of our Card designer (you can find the Card Designer in NCDB -> Licence Management -> Card Designs). As part of this redesign, the following improvements are implemented:

  • More options for placeholders 

  • More ways for text formatting (support of text colors, rotation, text size etc.) 

  • Support of QR Codes/Barcodes, which can capture data of your choice 

  • Support of Custom fields (primarily in connection with API for External Issuers) 

  • Better User experience of entire designer 

 

You can test the new Card Designer in the test environment  (https://test.aliveplatform.com/ ). Capabilities of the new Card Designer, in connection to Batch Card Printing function, are described in detail in LMS course “Batch Card Printing”.  

All features defined through the new Card Designer can be used also in digital cards display in third party solutions. If you are interested in this topic, please contact us.

 

API for External Issuers 

As already announced in previous bulletin, we are just a few steps from launching the new REST API for External Card Issuers into the live environment. At the moment, there are already some running pilot implementations, where we are fixing last bugs. Just to remind you – the API is intended for card issuers who issue cards by themselves (digital or plastic including plastic card printing) and would like to communicate with the National Cardholder Database (NCDB) in an automated way. The API allows for managing cardholders, report issued cards or request card issuance (difference is in the card number stock management) as well as manage card validity, status and a few other attributes. This API is an ideal solution for example for banks, universities with thousands of students and other institutions with extensive client base.

In case you are interested in this API, please let us know and we can discuss it individually. You can already test this API and start the integration process with your partners – in test environment, the API is fully working.

To get more information about the API, please take a look at LMS course. 

Important:  Please note that the new API for External Issuers is going to fully replace existing SOAP API. Please take into account that this “old” API won’t be further upgraded and is going to be supported only until it is switched off during 2022. Concrete date will be announced in advance. However, please keep this already in mind and inform your partners about necessity to implement new more advanced and secured technical solution. Also, please don’t offer the old API to any new partner. From now on only the new API is allowed to be used for new partnerships.