Asure ID 7 Exchange Software – Digital License Key

HID Asure ID 7 Exchange ID Card Software — Features and Benefits

HID Asure ID 7 Exchange is the advanced ID card design, data integration, and credential personalization solution in the Asure ID 7 software family. It is designed for organizations that need more than conventional photo ID printing, combining graphical card design with sophisticated database connectivity and supported electronic credential encoding.

Exchange helps organizations connect card production to existing HR, security, identity, and enterprise data systems. Its Live Link functionality supports real-time data exchange across multiple databases and tables, while the built-in iDIRECTOR encoding and management module allows supported smart card credentials to be graphically and electronically personalized through a unified workflow.

This makes Exchange a strong candidate for enterprise security programs, large campuses, healthcare systems, government facilities, manufacturing operations, and other organizations managing employee, contractor, or access control credentials.

Important: Exchange is intended for applications requiring advanced integration and supported smart card encoding. Actual encoding capabilities depend on the card technology, compatible encoder, credential configuration, and access control system. Confirm hardware and credential compatibility before purchasing.

Key Features and Benefits

Advanced Smart Card Encoding with iDIRECTOR
Exchange includes the iDIRECTOR encoding and management module for supported smart card applications. It brings graphical card personalization and electronic credential encoding together in one process, helping reduce the need to manage separate applications for printing the card and programming its supported electronic features.

Physical Access Control Credential Programming
Exchange supports programming compatible access control credentials, including supported HID iCLASS SE encoder applications. Depending on the credential technology and system configuration, this can help organizations streamline badge issuance by combining card printing with supported credential encoding. Confirm compatibility with your access control platform, card technology, and encoder before deployment.

Multi-Database and Multi-Table Live Link
Connect card production to supported external data sources using Live Link for real-time data exchange. Unlike Express, which supports a single database and table, and Enterprise, which supports multiple tables within a single database, Exchange supports multi-database and multi-table integration. This can be particularly useful when employee data, identity records, and credential-related information reside in different systems.

Enterprise Database Compatibility
Exchange supports specified versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle for native or Live Link connectivity, along with MySQL version 5 through Live Link. It also supports read-only Microsoft Active Directory/LDAP access. Supported versions, drivers, permissions, and connection methods should be verified against your current environment before purchase.

Advanced Card Design and Personalization
Create professional dual-sided credentials with variable and static text, photo fields, logos, graphics, compound data fields, and unlimited data fields. Conditional design and printing rules can help automatically adjust card elements based on the information in a record, supporting different employee categories, departments, locations, or credential types.

Linear and 2D Barcode Support
Design credentials using linear barcodes and supported two-dimensional formats, including QR codes, PDF417, and datastripe. Barcode selection should be based on the data requirements, intended use, and compatibility of the scanning systems that will read the finished card.

Magnetic-Stripe and Fluorescing Panel Support
Design cards with magnetic-stripe fields and supported fluorescing panel (F-panel) elements. Actual printing and encoding functionality depends on the printer, encoder, card technology, consumables, and configuration used in the application.

Integrated Photo Capture and Image Management
Capture cardholder photos through compatible TWAIN, DirectShow, and WIA devices. Associate images with records, use existing photos, and save images to folders with custom naming options. These features can support more organized enrollment and credential issuance workflows.

Integrated Signature Capture
Capture and incorporate signatures into supported card production workflows. Compatible signature-capture hardware and configuration may be required.

Unlimited Records and Global Search
Save and search unlimited records within supported database configurations. Global Find and other record-management capabilities help users locate cardholder information across larger credentialing programs. Practical performance depends on database design, infrastructure, and system configuration.

Reporting and Data Export
Filter, sort, and group records to create standard and custom reports. Export reports and use supported Microsoft Excel, text-file, and ODBC import/export workflows to support operational reporting and data management.

Database View Connectivity
Connect to supported database views where appropriate for your application. This can help present the data needed for credential production from existing enterprise systems. Compatibility depends on the database platform, view design, connection method, and user permissions.

Networkable Operation and User Permissions
Exchange supports networked operation and password-based log-in with definable user privileges and card-template access. These capabilities can help organizations coordinate credential production while controlling access to software functions and design resources. Network architecture and licensing should be confirmed for the intended deployment.

Batch Printing and Flexible Card Production
Use batch and sheet printing to manage groups of personalized cards more efficiently. This can help support employee onboarding, contractor enrollment, student registration, recurring credential replacement, and other high-volume issuance processes.

Intuitive Interface and Print Preview
The interface includes tabbed navigation, pop-out control palettes, and a true-to-output preview. Users can move between card design and data entry while reviewing layouts and cardholder information before printing or encoding credentials.

Printer Compatibility
Asure ID Exchange is compatible with HID FARGO card printers and other popular card printers. Exchange is optimized for FARGO printers and encoders, but compatibility with a specific printer, encoder, card technology, and encoding workflow should be confirmed before purchase.

Technical Specifications

• Software: HID Asure ID 7 Exchange
• Product type: Advanced ID card design, data integration, and credential personalization software
• Delivery: Digital software license delivered by email
• Operating system: Windows 10 and Windows 11
• Network operation: Networkable
• Internal database support: Microsoft Access 2000, 2002, and 2003
• External database support: Specified Microsoft SQL Server versions through SQL Server 2022 and Oracle 9i, 11g, and 21c
• Additional database connectivity: MySQL version 5 through Live Link
• Directory connectivity: Read-only Microsoft Active Directory/LDAP access
• Live Link: Real-time data exchange across multiple databases and tables
• Record capacity: Unlimited records, subject to database and system capacity
• Card design: Dual-sided templates, variable and static text, photo fields, logos, and graphics
• Data fields: Unlimited data fields and compound fields
• Conditional design: Conditional card design and printing rules
• Barcode support: Linear barcodes and supported 2D formats, including QR code, PDF417, and datastripe
• Additional card features: Magnetic stripe and supported fluorescing panel design
• Smart card encoding: iDIRECTOR encoding and management
• Access control credentials: Supported credential programming, including compatible iCLASS SE encoder applications
• Photo capture: Compatible TWAIN, DirectShow, and WIA devices
• Signature capture: Integrated signature capture supported
• Printing: Batch and sheet printing
• Reporting: Standard and custom reports, filtering, sorting, grouping, and export
• Data exchange: Supported Microsoft Excel, text-file, and ODBC import/export workflows
• Database views: Supported database view connectivity
• Security: Password log-in, user privileges, and card-template access controls
• Printer compatibility: HID FARGO printers and other compatible card printers

Database support refers to the versions and connection methods specified for Asure ID 7 Exchange. Compatibility with current infrastructure, operating system configurations, drivers, and credential hardware should be confirmed before deployment.

Who Should Choose Asure ID Exchange?

Exchange is intended for organizations that need advanced data integration or electronic credential personalization in addition to conventional ID card printing.

• Large corporate organizations: Integrate card production with supported HR, identity, and security databases and manage employee or contractor credentials.
• Healthcare systems: Support staff credential production across departments and facilities where data is maintained in multiple systems.
• Universities and large campuses: Produce photo IDs and compatible electronic credentials for students, faculty, staff, and other authorized populations.
• Government and public-sector facilities: Support more sophisticated credential applications that require advanced data integration and compatible encoding workflows.
• Manufacturing and distribution: Coordinate personnel credentialing across facilities while connecting card production to supported business systems.
• Financial services and data centers: Support employee and contractor identification programs that integrate with existing systems and use compatible access control credentials.
• Organizations with complex databases: Use multi-database and multi-table Live Link when required information is distributed across multiple supported data sources.
• Access control integrators and credentialing teams: Combine graphical card personalization with supported smart card encoding in a unified workflow.

Exchange is particularly relevant when the credential is more than a printed photo ID and must also function as a supported electronic access control credential.

When Is Exchange Necessary?

Not every organization needs the advanced capabilities of Exchange. Consider the other Asure ID editions if your requirements are more straightforward.

• Basic card printing: Solo may be sufficient for small programs that need simple card design and a built-in database limited to 200 records.
• Advanced standalone printing: Express is appropriate for more sophisticated card design, reporting, batch printing, and supported single-database connectivity from one workstation.
• Shared networked card production: Enterprise supports multi-workstation access and multiple tables within a single database.
• Advanced integration and smart card encoding: Exchange is the option to evaluate when you need multi-database/multi-table connectivity and supported iDIRECTOR encoding capabilities.

Selecting the correct edition depends on your database architecture, credential technology, number of users, card design requirements, and whether you need to encode electronic credentials as part of the issuance process.

Compare the Asure ID Software Editions

Asure ID Solo — Entry-Level ID Card Software
Designed for basic card design and personalization when the built-in database limit of 200 records and entry-level feature set are sufficient.

Asure ID Express — Advanced Standalone ID Card Software
Designed for organizations that need advanced card design, batch printing, reporting, conditional printing rules, and supported external data connectivity from a single workstation.

Asure ID Enterprise — Networked ID Card Production
Designed for organizations that need multiple authorized workstations to share a centralized database and produce consistent credentials across departments or facilities.

Asure ID Exchange — Advanced Integration and Smart Card Encoding
The advanced option for organizations that need multi-database/multi-table connectivity, supported directory integration, and smart card encoding and management through iDIRECTOR.

Choosing the appropriate edition from the beginning can help reduce the need for later software changes as your credentialing program expands.

Digital Delivery and Ordering Information

Asure ID 7 Exchange is a digital software product. The license key is delivered by email, and no physical software package is shipped.

Before ordering, confirm that Exchange supports your required database platforms, network configuration, printer and encoder hardware, card technology, and access control credential format. Software sales are final and are not returnable.

If you need help selecting the right edition, contact IDSuperShop before purchasing. We can help evaluate your existing databases, ID card printers, encoder hardware, and credentialing workflow to identify the appropriate software solution for your application.