Why choose SECANDA for your school?
Educational institutions — universities, universities of applied sciences, vocational schools, or secondary schools — face multiple challenges: securing access, streamlining student identity management, digitizing payments, simplifying printing, and integrating systems. SECANDA Suite addresses all these needs with a modular, scalable, and interoperable platform, already adopted by over 380 universities globally.
What sets SECANDA Identity apart
• One identity allowing unlimited user groups — students, faculty, staff, guests, alumni
• Mobile ID + RFID + QR + hybrid credentials
• Instant provisioning of access, meal plan, wallets, printing, POS, and more
• No per-credential fees and no obligation to migrate vendors all at once
• Smart onboarding flows for every category (self-registration included)
Physical & Digital Identity – SECANDA Secure
SECANDA Secure manages the entire identity lifecycle: from enrollment to card issuance, including access rights management and authentication.
✔️ Creation and personalization of RFID cards (students, staff, visitors) with SECANDA or keep your existing card provider
✔️ Integration with Edu-ID, IS-Academia, Universitas, LDAP, or other HR/ERP databases
✔️ Profile synchronization with connected services (access, payment, printing)
✔️ On-site card production via Evolis printers or self-service kiosks
Mobile Identity & User Autonomy – SECANDA App
SECANDA App enables each student or staff member to independently manage their services from their smartphone:
✔️ Easy registration, photo upload, and activation of the mobile identity
✔️ Mobile access to buildings, services, and lockers
✔️ Account top-up, balance check, and transaction history
✔️ Notifications, identity validation, and credit transfers between users
Physical & Logical Access Control – SECANDA Access
SECANDA Access centralizes and secures access to buildings, libraries, laboratories, classrooms, or student housing.
✔️ Integration with Elatec, Allegion, Salto, Gantner, Kaba, Glutz
✔️ Dynamic assignment of rights based on roles and schedules
✔️ Visitor management, temporary access rights, and sensitive zones
✔️ Access via card, badge, app, or QR code
Why universities choose SECANDA Access
• Granular permissions for students, staff, contractors, guests, and event visitors
• Automated role-based access linked directly to identity
• Easy onboarding — self-registration + instant activation
• Works with your existing ecosystem (SALTO, Gantner, HID, Genetec, and more)
• Full mobile + hybrid support
• No credential-based billing (one simple, predictable license)
Unlock additional features
• Access schedules, event-based access, locker access
• Visitor and temporary credentials
• API-first design for security integrations
• Real-time sync with campus systems
Cashless Payments & Balance Management – SECANDA Pay + Micanda POS
SECANDA Pay allows students to make cashless payments across campus.
Combined with Micanda POS, it covers all points of sale: cafeterias, vending machines, shops, and internal services.
✔️ Payments via student card, QR code, or SECANDA App
✔️ Integration with Wallee terminals and standard POS systems
✔️ Differentiated pricing based on status (student, staff, external)
✔️ Payment deduction via balance, invoice, or even payroll for staff
SECANDA makes it incredibly easy — and affordable — to go fully cashless on and off campus. With SECANDA, you can have modern payments with minimal cost and maximum flexibility.
What SECANDA Cashless delivers
• QR code payments (instant deployment, no extra hardware)
• Meal plans everywhere: dining halls, cafés, stadiums, food trucks, vending
• Off-campus merchant program — activate local partners in minutes
• One Wallet inside the SECANDA App
• No transaction lock-in & no per-credential fees
• Full reporting + financial transparency
And it’s all connected to the SECANDA identity.
Students, staff, guests, alumni — everyone gets the right wallets and spending rules automatically.
Your Meal Plan and SECANDA
Customizations within SECANDA Suite allows you to create any variety of meal plans to suit your campus needs. Full customization is available when combined with Micanda POS.
✔️ Enable any plan type: block, swipe, cash balance, traditional, unlimited, etc.
✔️ Unlimited user types
✔️ Connect campus-wide POS systems or go mobile
SECANDA offers your campus incredible flexibility, allowing you to create new plan types and user groups (including one-day visitors). Management is centralized and easy and our robust reporting allows you to collect critical data about your student groups and usage.
Core Functionalities
•Automatic meal plan assignment according to school policies and imported user meal plans
•Validity dates fully configurable and top-ups allowable
•Negative balance option (allow/block overdraft)
•Voucher bypass → direct payment via stored credit
•Cost centers for allocating sales and consumptions
Administration and Reporting
• Centralized user & plan management; import/export for batch management
• Detailed reporting by individual user, user groups, custom filters (time, location, product, cost center, etc.)
Meal Plan Rules that Come Standard with SECANDA:
•Apply by product/category/day/hour
•Stackable or non-stackable
•Limit usage per day (prevent carry-over)
•“Use it or lose it” or “credit over a period” modes
Secure & Prepaid Printing – PaperCut integrated with SECANDA
The integration of PaperCut with SECANDA enables controlled and cost-effective print management:
✔️ Authentication on printers via card or app
✔️ Secure printing with manual release
✔️ Automatic credit deduction from personal balance
✔️ Quota control, statistics, and waste prevention
Info-Terminal & Load-Up-Terminal Kiosks
Self-service kiosks allow students to manage their accounts anytime:
✔️ Top-up with bank card or cash
✔️ Balance, history, or access rights consultation
✔️ Reduced administrative workload and streamlined services
Interoperability & Integration – SECANDA Connect
SECANDA Connect ensures native compatibility with third-party systems thanks to an open, scalable, and well-documented architecture.
✔️ REST API and standard connectors
✔️ Existing integrations with:
Wallee, Micros Fidelio
✔️ Automatic synchronization of rights and profiles
✔️ Low-code/no-code approach for fast and secure deployment
- Edu-ID, IS-Academia, Universitas
- LDAP / Active Directory
- PaperCut
- Genetec, Allegion, Salto, Gantner, Kaba, Glutz
- Evolis Print Center
✔️ Automatic synchronization of rights and profiles
✔️ Low-code/no-code approach for fast and secure deployment
The benefits for your institution
- Centralization of identity, access, payments, and printing
- Reduced queues and administrative workload
- Student and staff autonomy through an all-in-one app
- Enhanced security and GDPR compliance with the option for local, Cloud, or Swiss-based hosting
- An open, proven system adaptable to any educational environment
SECANDA Suite is more than an identity system: it is a complete infrastructure that connects students, services, and technologies, ensuring fluidity, security, and operational efficiency.