About us

We make one thing: keys hotels hand to guests

Cards, wristbands, fobs and the sleeves they arrive in. Focusing on a single product family for hospitality is a constraint we chose on purpose — depth beats breadth in this business.

2008
Producing cards since
1,000+
Hotel & resort programs
50+
Countries shipped to
1M+
Cards per month capacity

Our story

Cardotel is the hospitality brand of a smart-card factory that has been printing, laminating and encoding cards in Guangdong, China since 2008. Over that time the team has delivered key card programs to more than 1,000 hotels, resorts and casinos across 50+ countries — and learned, project by project, that hotel keys are their own discipline.

Lock systems differ by brand, model and even firmware year. Front desks have zero tolerance for cards that read slowly. Brand teams expect the key to match the lobby, not fight it. Cardotel exists to serve exactly these requirements, with a catalog, sample process and support workflow built only around hospitality.

Production runs on our own lines in Dongguan — offset printing, lamination, chip embedding, encoding and 100% read-testing under one roof, with capacity above one million cards per month. No trading-company layer, no outsourced quality surprises: the people who quote your order are colleagues of the people who print it.

Video: how card sheets move through an offset printing line (compunetcards, YouTube) — the same process family our Dongguan presses run daily.

How we work

Verify, then print

No order starts before the chip is confirmed against your locks — with physical samples, not a datasheet guess.

Honest materials

Eco claims ship with evidence: FSC chain-of-custody papers and ASTM test reports on request.

Deadlines are part of the product

A perfect card that misses your season opening is a failed card. We plan production around your calendar.

Small orders welcome

A 30-key boutique inn gets the same print quality as a 3,000-key resort — MOQs start at 100 pieces.

What sets the factory apart

Hospitality-only catalog

Hospitality-only catalog

Every product we list exists because a hotel asked for it — nothing is repurposed from other industries.

Lock-system library

Lock-system library

Years of chip-to-lock pairings on file: send your lock model and we usually know the answer before testing confirms it.

Print craftsmanship

Print craftsmanship

German offset presses, PMS matching, foil and UV finishing run by operators who do this daily.

In-house everything

In-house everything

Printing, lamination, embedding, encoding and QC in one facility — accountability never leaves the building.

Who we supply

From single boutique properties to group procurement desks and distributors.

  • International hotel groups
  • Resort & water park operators
  • Casino resorts
  • Boutique & design hotels
  • Hostel & aparthotel chains
  • Key card distributors & lock installers

Where we are

Headquarters

A2110, Zhantao Science & Technology Park, Minzhi Road, Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Sales, engineering & project management

Production facility

Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Printing, embedding, encoding & QC

Start your order

Need key cards that just work at check-in?

Send your lock brand and quantity — you will get a factory-direct quote and a free sample pack to test in your own locks before you commit.