Top-Up Cards

1. Overview.

Top-Up Cards are a another way of payment in RODOPI. They are used to add credits to the customer account. 

2. What Top-Up Cards are and how they work?

Top-Up Cards are generated in blocks and every block has face value (the amount which will be added to the customer account) and expiration date (the date after which the card is invalid). When customer enters the card number in RODOPI (Customer Support Section) the amount (the face value) is added to his account and the card gets invalid. 

3. Top-Up Cards Blocks 

Top-Up Cards  
ID Description Create Date Exp. Date Face Value TransactionType Count Active Used  
1 Cards-01/01/00 6/12/99 01/01/00 12.00 Top-Up Cards 100 0 100  
2 Cards-07/01/01 02/01/01 07/01/01 10.00 Top-Up Cards 2 0 2  
3 Cards-01/01/02 6/13/01 01/01/02 10.00 Top-Up Cards 2 2 0
4 Cards-07/01/02 6/15/01 07/01/02 10.00 Top-Up Cards 100 100 0

Top-Up Cards are generated in blocks. Every block has Description, Create Date, Expiration Date, Face Value, Transaction Type and Count of Top-Up Cards in the block.
Description is the specified name of the block.
Create Date is the date of creation of the block.
Expiration Date is the date after which the cards in the block get invalid.
Face Value is the amount of money which will be added to the customer's account.
Transaction Type is  type of payment you can specify in the Administration/Transaction Type section. You can choose it when you are generating cards.
Count is the count of Top-Up Cards in the block.
Active cards are those cards that have not been used by customers or closed  manually  and they are still not expired. 
Used cards are those cards that have been used by customers. 

4. Generating Top-Up Cards

To create new block of  Top-Up Cards click on the New button. 

Generate Top-Up Cards
  
Description:
Face Value:
Number of cards to generate:
Block Expiration:
Payment Type:

 Enter the description of the block, face value (which is valid for all cards in block), number of cards, expiration date and transaction type (see. Administration/Transaction Types) . Click on Generate button to generate Top-Up Cards. 

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5. View/Print generated cards

For every block you can print the number of active  Top-Up Cards as you click on Print button. If the block has not active cards there is no Print button. 
Active cards are those cards that have not been used by customers or closed  manually  and they are still not expired. 

Print Top-Up Cards
  
From card to card
Print type: HTML Page
Tab delimited text
Comma separated values (CSV) text

All cards in the block have internal numeration valid for the block. You can print cards in parts as specify the start number and end number of the cards. For example if the block has 10,000 cards to print first 1000 cards you should type 1 and 1000, to print second 1000 cards type  2001 and 3000, .... etc.

6. Close Top-Up Cards

 To close all cards in a block click on the Close button. The number if active cards in the block will get 0. Those cards could not be used by customers any more.

7. Authenticate Top-Up Cards

From Customer Support Section click on the Enter Top-Up Cards link. Type the Top-Up Cards number. If the card is authenticated the face value (the amount) will be added to the customer account.