Key Card Accessories

The details around the card

A key card rarely travels alone. Sleeves carry your WiFi code, fobs suit certain doors better, staff need credentials too — we produce the whole kit under one roof.

Hotel key card sleeves, key fobs and staff cards

Accessories we manufacture

Printed Key Card Sleeves

The little envelope that answers every front-desk question before it is asked: room number line, WiFi password, breakfast hours, map. Offset-printed to the same color standard as your cards.

  • Standard CR80 sleeve or custom die-cut formats
  • Writable panels for room number and dates
  • Matched PMS colors with your key cards
Hotel Key Fobs — Cardotel

Hotel Key Fobs

Durable RFID fobs for properties that prefer a key that hangs — popular with hostels, apartments and back-of-house doors. Same chip options as our cards.

  • LF 125 kHz and HF 13.56 MHz chip options
  • Custom shapes, colors and logo printing
  • Rated for years of pocket-and-keyring life
Staff ID & Locker Cards — Cardotel

Staff ID & Locker Cards

Employee access cards, staff IDs with photo panels, and locker credentials — encoded for your access control zones and printed to match your uniform program.

  • Photo ID layouts with variable data printing
  • Zone-based access encoding supported
  • Slot punching and lanyard options
Linen & Laundry Tags — Cardotel

Linen & Laundry Tags

Washable UHF tags rated for 200+ industrial cycles, letting housekeeping count towels, robes and uniforms by the trolley instead of by hand.

  • Survives industrial washing, drying and ironing
  • Sew-on, heat-seal or pouch mounting
  • Batch reading for hands-free linen counts

Technical overview

Sleeves
Coated art paper or kraft, CR80 standard or custom die-cut, offset CMYK + PMS
Fob chips
EM4200, T5577, MIFARE Classic®/Ultralight®, NTAG®
Staff cards
PVC or PETG, photo ID printing, magstripe or RFID encoding
Laundry tags
UHF EPC Gen2, 200+ wash cycle rating, 60 °C–180 °C process tolerance
MOQ
Sleeves from 500 pcs · fobs and cards from 100 pcs
Lead time
7–10 working days standard

Inside the factory

How your key cards are made

One roof in Dongguan, China: printing, lamination, chip embedding, encoding and QC on our own lines since 2008. Here is the journey from raw sheet to the card your front desk hands over.

  1. Materials in

    1 · Materials in

    REACH & RoHS-compliant PVC, FSC®-option wood veneers and chip inlays — every batch verified before it touches a press.

  2. Offset printing

    2 · Offset printing

    German offset presses with Pantone spot-color matching held to roughly 5–10% against your brand standard.

  3. Lamination & embedding

    3 · Lamination & embedding

    Printed cores are collated and fused under heat and pressure, sealing the antenna and chip inside a rigid CR80 body.

  4. Encoding & 100% testing

    4 · Encoding & 100% testing

    Every single card is read-tested before packing — not a sample, all of them. UID lists supplied on request.

  5. Finishing & packing

    5 · Finishing & packing

    Die-cutting, slot punching and per-property packing on automated lines, labeled so each front desk gets the right box.

100% read-tested No sampling — every card passes a reader before it ships.
PMS color held to ~5–10% Proofed against your Pantone code or physical reference.
REACH & RoHS materials Compliance documentation available for procurement.
Your keys stay yours We never hold your locking system’s secret keys — encoding of access data happens only at your property.

Video: inside a PVC card body production line (compunetcards, YouTube).

Rather see it than read it?

Three minutes inside a card line: sheet printing, collation, lamination and punching — the same fundamentals our Dongguan facility runs at over one million cards per month. Want proof in your own hands instead? The sample pack ships free.

Common applications

  • Front-desk welcome kits with sleeve + card
  • Hostel and apartment key fob programs
  • Employee access and time attendance
  • Housekeeping linen and uniform tracking
  • Spa and gym locker keys
  • Conference and event badge add-ons

Accessory questions, answered

Can sleeves and cards ship as matched sets?

Yes — most clients order them together so colors are matched on press and quantities stay in sync. We can also collate them per property for hotel groups.

Do you print variable data like room numbers or staff names?

We handle variable data printing for staff IDs, numbering and barcodes at the factory. Room assignments are typically written or encoded at the property, and sleeves include a writable panel for exactly that.

How do laundry tags attach to linens?

Three ways: sewn into a hem, heat-sealed as a patch, or slipped into a fabric pouch. We recommend the method per textile type — towels, sheets and uniforms each behave differently over hundreds of cycles.

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.