Barnes Smart Solutions

Barnes Smart Solutions is part of the Barnes International group and is the developer and licensor sole of P3 worldwide.

It was formed during 2017 in order to establish an innovative technology driven Solutions Company to focus on building the capacity to service current P3 customers, to onward develop and enhance the P3 product family and to provide on-going maintenance support to P3 customers since the end of life announcement by Thales during July 2018.

Members of Thales’ Product Management and Software Development teams for P3, who previously fulfilled the P3 product management and development roles at Thales, have joined our expert technical team.

Barnes Smart Solutions is part of the Barnes International group, which is 28 years old and headquartered in the UK, with offices around the world in US, China, Malaysia, India, Portugal, Spain, Kenya and South Africa allows Barnes Smart Solutions to reach all customers for sales and support. The resources of the group and collective intellectual ability will be leveraged to the advantage of our customers.

Barnes Smart Solutions offering

If you need to issue EMV tokens (smartcards) to your customers for use in a wide range of applications, both financial and non-financial , or need to migrate from magstripe to Chip and Pin then Barnes can help.

Barnes provides a powerful and mature set of tools enabling card issuers to prepare data for personalisation of smart cards for use in a wide range of applications, both financial and non-financial.

The principal components of the issuance solution can be combined in several ways to satisfy the needs of both complete in-house card issuance and in-house data preparation only services.

The components also integrate readily with card issuers legacy card management systems (CMS) and with personalisation systems that drive the printing (or loading) of such information onto smart cards

Our offering includes;

  • P3 (v 1.9) advance and server software
  • P3 (v 1.9) advance and server software Support services
  • P3 Installation and training services
  • Consulting services
  • Bespoke development
  • Software Support on bespoke development
  • P3 Training
  • Reseller of the Thales payShield 9000 and HSM9-PAC907 firmware

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