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I'm looking for a way to create a credit system for our employees. They can use their employee ID as a credit/debit card whereby they are able to submit cash to our office as a deposit. Then go to our lunch room and then use their card to purchase items during their lunch break or various other things where they need to pay. (ie In the gym, they can bring their own towel or rent one for $1.) There is probably a better way to do this but I was thinking: For entering the amount a) we scan their emp ID, : then scan a barcode of the amount to deposit to their acct. on premade amount barcode sheet Then for deducting the amount they spent a) scan their emp iD & see how much they can spend : then scan a barcode corresponding to the amount they are spending keep history & graph the income vs expense. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark kekoan@me.com

Right now our church congregation is over 1,000 and about 90% under the age of 20. We have our church in the heart of a huge slum are in a town of 3 million. We expect to minister to 1,500-2,000 by June '09. We want to keep as good track of the children and their families needs as humanly possible. THis is called being a good shepherd. God knows every hair on our heads, he knows when the sparrows fall, and he noticed when one out of 100 lambs got lost, and he went out to bring it back in. That motivates me to do my best! Please contact me if you are interested. Must have experience with FM and implementation of scanners and Id cards. The following are our needs - Check-in using their cards - Malnourished children use their card to receive their rice & vitamins - Track the more than 200 dental patients we have a year - Record for pregnant mothers & Vitamins they receive - Birthdays - Volunteer tracking (currently 100+ and 20+ staff) - Bus drivers - SPonsorship program - Special Needs children - Job Applications - implement a credit system whereby credit can be gained and and lost as a result of using the credit to purchase extra personal items (ie, rice, toothpaste, etc.) - Props & Supply inventory - Record of Weekly Winners * To be able to store the data on handheld scanner thn dump it to the hard drive afterward. mark kekoan@me.com

I'm a missionary in the Philippines and I've run into a need and I was hoping someone could help point me in the right direction. We have over 1,000 kids on a weekly basis. We provide rice to those ones who are underweight and malnourished, vitamins to pregnant mothers, and free dental services. Every week when they attend our services we provide them with tokens. After the service thy can use thier tokens to buy items at our store, toys, shirts, school supplies, etc. About the tokens, they receive 5 upon entrance, if they have their kids club tshirt, they get an extra token, however if they need to go to the bathroom, they lose a token or if they are disruptive, they lose another one etc.. The tokens which act as dollars to use at our store. All of which is free to those who attend but earn dollars. We currently print our own coins but it gets expensive to replace and very time consuming in keeping records. I'd like to have a system set up whereby we can track this either using scanner with id cards. It is for attendance, relationship info. between siblings or families, who we distributed rice and vitamins to, track the progress of pregnant moms. Is there a card system where we can do this? Add points, take away points and then they can use the points accumulated to purchase items? Any ideas or possibilities that we can find a solution to? We have filemaker but my simple database is very archaic. I've been looking stuff up on this for the past month and can't seem to find anything that is an answer to this. As a final thing worth noting is that we use exclusively Apple computers. Thanks for any help, Mark