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Submitting Data for Custom Badges

Card Data
If there will be data such as Company Name, telephone number, or backside text that will be printed the same on every card, submit that information in a simple email or text file. Be sure to submit in ALL CAPS or Upper/Lower case just as you would want the text to appear on the card.
Employee Data
Employee number, first name, last name, hire date, title or department, or any data that will be different from card to card should be submitted as an MS-Excel XLS file.
  • Be sure to submit employee names as two fields: first name and last name. We can combine the fields if you want the full name on a single line. However, we will not split a single field apart.

  • Please submit ALL fields as simple text just as you want them to appear on the badge, since any Excel field formatting does not carry over to our card-printing program.

  • If you want the names or other data in all CAPS, you must submit them that way. If you want Upper/Lower case, then submit your data in upper/lower case. BE CONSISTANT.

  • Include a field for any data that will be different from card to card such as branch telephone numbers or addresses, badge number for encoding. A separate field is required for each line printed. E.g. if you want the employee's address on one line and their city, state zip code below it, that requires two fields in the Excel file.

  • A field MUST be included that references the name of the employee's image file. Besides employee images, references can be made to different image files for different employee badges such as color bars, insignia's, logos, etc. However each image file must be the same aspect ratio for this to work.

  • File should be named (your company name).xls.

  • Submit your data to sales@expresstimesystems.com

Example of an XLS file of employee data with image file references
 
NUMBER FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME TITLE HIRE_DATE IMAGE
12345 John Doe SERVICE TECH 11/24/1999 John Doe.jpg
23456 Mary Smith SALES ASSOCIATE 05/01/1994 Mary Smith.jpg
20007 George Jones MAINTENANCE 12/02/2000 George Jones.jpg

Download a sample Excel file you can fill in