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Recharge Cards

Account users can recharge their accounts by using recharge cards generated by the CAMS system. The recharge card management function allows for generation, revoking, and query of recharge cards. Each recharge card is imposed on with an expiry date, which cannot be changed after the card is generated. Once expired or used, a recharge card is not useful any more.

Functions

Select the User tab and then select Accounting Manager > Recharge Cards from the navigation tree to enter the Recharge Cards page, where you can:

• Query recharge cards
  
  This function allows you to query recharge cards.

  Operation Procedure

  1. Specify the query conditions.
  2. Click Query.
• Generate recharge cards
  
  This function allows you to generate recharge cards in batches.

  Operation Procedure

  1. Click Generate to enter the Generate Recharge Cards page.
  2. Specify the basic recharge card information.
  3. Click OK. Card files are saved in this directory: <INC installation folder>/export/cams/chargeCard/generate/.
  4. Click Download to obtain information about the newly generated recharge cards.
• Revoke recharge cards
  
  This function allows you to revoke certain recharge cards.

  Operation Procedure

  1. Click Revoke to enter the recharge card revoking page.
  2. Specify the basic information of the recharge cards to be revoked.
  3. Click OK. Card files are saved in this directory: <INC installation folder>/export/cams/chargeCard/revoke/.
  4. Click Download to obtain information about the revoked recharge cards.

Parameters

Basic recharge card information for card query

• Card ID: Recharge card identification. Fuzzy search is supported.
• Card Status: Status of the recharge cards, Used, Unused, or Expired.
• Created from/to: The dates on which the recharge cards were generated. Note that the end time must be the same as or later than the start time.
• Card Batch: Batch number of the recharge cards. Recharge cards generated in the same batch have the same batch number.
• User: Account recharged with the card. A value of -- means that the account has been cancelled or does not exist. This parameter is present only when the recharge card is in Used state. You can click the card ID link of a recharge card on the Recharge Cards page to view details of the recharge card.
• Used on: Time when the card is used for recharge, in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. This parameter is present only if the recharge card is in Used state. You can click the card ID link of a recharge card on the Recharge Cards page to view details of the recharge card.

Basic recharge card information for card generation

• Card Batch: Batch numbers for the cards to be generated, assigned automatically by the system. In a batch number, the left-most 14 digits indicate the time when the generation operation is performed, and the last 4 digits are a random number.
• Card ID Prefix: Left-most characters for the recharge cards to be generated. This prefix is case-insensitive and must consist of 4 to 12 characters. Valid characters include A to Z, a to z, and 0 to 9. This field is required.
• Card ID Complexity: A card ID can be composed of solely digits or both digits and English letters.
• Card ID Length: Length of the card ID, in the range 7 to 15. This length does not take the card ID prefix into account. A card ID is a random string generated by the system automatically. This field is required.
• Password Complexity: A password can be composed of solely digits or both digits and English letters.
• Password Length: Length of the recharge card passwords, an integer in the range 4 to 15. This field is required.
• Number of Cards: Number of recharge cards to be generated in the batch, an integer in the range 1 to 9999. This field is required.
• Card Denomination: Amount of money to be added to the balance of an account charged with the card, in the range 1 to 1000000. It must be an integer or a decimal number with up to 2 decimal digits (the number of decimal digits depends on Currency Preference Settings and defaults to 2). The field is required.
• Extend Validity Period for: Number of months the validity period of an account charged with the card will be extended for. It must be an integer in the range 0 to 24. If the expiry date of an account, after recharge, is beyond January 1sth, 2038, the expiry date is not displayed on the page any more but it does exist in the relevant database. This field is required.
  
• Expiration Date: Last day when the recharge card is valid. An expired recharge card cannot be used any more. The value must be in the format YYYY-MM-DD and must be later than the current date. This field is required.
• File Name: Name for the file to be used to save information of the recharge cards. It can be a string of up to 127 characters (valid characters include A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9, and "-", "_", and ".") and must be unique. This field is required.

Basic recharge card information for card revoking

• Scope: Recharge cards to be revoked, which can be Used recharge cards, Expired recharge cards, or Cards in a specific batch. If there is no recharge card in the system, the last option is not available.
• Card Batch: All card batch numbers are listed. If there is no recharge card at all, this parameter is not present.
• File Name: Name of the file used to save information of the recharge cards revoked. It can be a string of up to 127 characters (valid characters include A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9, and "-", "_", and ".") and must be unique. This field is required.

Related Topics

• Currency Preference Settings