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Issue ready-to-use cards instantly

With more than 7,500 installations worldwide and over 15 years of experience, Entrust empowers financial institutions and retailers of all sizes to put ready-to-use cards into the customer’s hands instantly.

Instant issuance helps you increase activation rates and card usage while improving customer satisfaction. It also helps reduce costs associated with card pre-printing, inventory management, and mailings.

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Designed for Branch Issuance

Support instant card issuance and replacement, queued issuance, and low-volume batch card issuance.

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Card Choice

Issue the card types you want from a choice of blank stocks from a single multi-hopper system.

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EMV® and PBOC 2.0

Our solutions issue more than 5 million compliant smart cards each year.

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PIN Solutions

Get PIN pads and encoders for new PIN selection, re-PIN, PIN change, PIN transfer, and Pre-PIN.

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Reporting and Administration

Create, monitor, and report on card setup, issuance and administration based on your requirements.

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Visa and Mastercard

End-to-end encryption capabilities meet PCI PA-DSS security standards protect your data in transit and at rest.

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Optimized for Self Service

Connect your business to valuable opportunities in the fast-rising self-service kiosk market.

Tech Specs

Supports EMV® compliant payment applications including but not limited to: 

  • VISA: VSDC, payWave 
  • MasterCard: M/Chip, MICA, Maestro 
  • American Express: AEIPS 
  • China Union Pay: PBOC 
  • Discover. Diners Club International, PULSE: D-PAS 
  • JCB: J/Smart™ 
  • Support for PBOC 2.0 standard 
  • Built-in compliance for VISA and MasterCard instant issuance security recommendations 
  • Audited PCI compliance 
  • End-to-end encryption for proven security 
  • Custom card personalization and backgrounds 
  • Complete PIN selection and re-PIN capabilities 
  • Management reporting and administrative tools 
  • Support for seven languages 
    • Arabic 
    • English 
    • French 
    • German 
    • Portuguese 
    • Simplified Chinese 
    • Spanish

Security Level

Solution Features

Secure Ribbon Scramble on equipped Sigma DS4 printers
Web App support for Sigma DS4 and Sigma DS4 Kiosk Manual Feed printer
Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022
Support for Microsoft Windows 11 (64-bit) for client applications
Session notification and management
Microsoft Edge support
Automated lost card clean up
Sigma DS4K Issuance System (Kiosk)
Application rebrand
Instant Financial Issuance name introduction
New Key Version table
TLS encryption configured for SQL server
Sigma DS4 Issuance System
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection
Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2019 support

Key Management

Support for ProtectServer firmware version 5.06.04
TR-31 Export Support
Support Keys exported from pre-6.4 version
nShield Edge HSM Support (Non-production)
CSV Export for Audit table
nShield HSMi Terminal Adapter
TR-31 Import support
Translation from ISO-3 and ISO-4 to ISO-1, 2, and 3
SafeNet PTK 5.9 support

EMV

Security updates
SCP03 Authentication support
BIN management list update
Manage ISO 3 and 4 under HSM
Version 6.8*

High

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Version 6.9

Higher

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Version 6.10

Highest

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*This version is no longer supported.

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