English National Concessionary Travel Scheme

Unicard Ltd is an ITSO compliant supplier of smart cards and card management systems.

Unicard transport solutions offer the functionality operators and local authorities need to deliver and operate smart and non-smart ticketing schemes today. At the same time, they help transport operators maximise opportunities to extend card usage and open up new revenue streams in the future.

“Smart Card Retail” is a proven web-based card management system (CMS) for card issuers and is recognised as one of the best on the market for local authorities. The CMS is provided in line with the DfT Lot2 and Lot 4 specifications.
Click here to learn about the main features and benefits of our "Smart Card Retail" CMS software.

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Unicard's highly practical solutions are designed to ensure rapid return on investment for transport operators, and a straightforward growth path to future schemes.

Long term benefits
As well as reducing time-to-traveller for smart ticketing schemes, Unicard solutions are designed to deliver long term benefits:
• adherence to the ITSO model ensures future interoperability
• scalability means schemes can start small, but have the potential
to grow to include multiple services and multiple issuers on the
same platform
• easy expansion enables new and innovative ticketing products
to be added in the future
• managed solution minimises demand on in-house resources
and optimises infrastructure costs
• ticket sales to the public over the internet reduces overheads