Launceston College Launceston College is a mixed comprehensive school of around 1300 students in Cornwall. It has its own sixth form and has been a designated specialist Technology college since 1998.
 

Q. What made you decide to use BioStore?
"Our College Leadership Team made the decision to implement biometrics at Launceston College fairly recently, having seen that it worked well at other schools. We also made the decision to write our own cashless catering system because we had our own in-house development resource and would therefore be able to save a considerable amount of money over buying a system in. When we heard about BioStore we approached them for help with the biometric element of the solution. We also needed to be able to link in other applications (namely printing and library), which using the BioStore solution would allow us to do."

Q. What applications do you use BioStore with?
"We currently use BioStore with our own cashless catering solution and a Ricoh/Papercut print management solution."

Q. How did the implementation process go, have you had any problems?
"We haven't had any problems whatsoever with the implementation. Whenever we've had questions about licensing or anything, the support has been really good."

Q. In what ways has BioStore benefitted Launceston College?
"Using the BioStore biometrics makes it quicker to process students and staff at the tills and the printers. All the BioStore stuff works beautifully. Our old card based system caused issues as students would forget their card or would deface their card because it had their photo on it. Moving to a thumbprint system has eliminated these issues as a student cannot forget to bring their thumb!"

Q. Are you planning to link any other applications to BioStore in the future?
"We have a Heritage library system that we intend to link up to BioStore."

Q. Are there any other comments you would like to make?
"We like the interoperability of BioStore - how everything plugs into it is really good."

For more information, please contact : info@biostore.co.uk