NS Design, United Kingdom: an ID card store with templates and online design
NS Design is a Northern Ireland business whose WooCommerce store sells personalised PVC ID cards for staff, medical conditions, assistance dogs and memberships, with no minimum order. Customers start from a template or design from scratch online. Netbase JSC's records hold a custom web-to-print engagement from March 2021 to June 2026 with 20 milestones.
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Who is NS Design and what market does it serve?
NS Design is a small business in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Its store, nsdesignidcards.com, sells in English to organisations and individuals across the UK, and its headline promise is ID cards with no minimum order. The catalogue visible on 2026-10-01 covers staff and employee photo ID cards, membership cards, conference badges, medical alert cards such as hidden disability and food allergy cards, assistance dog cards, cosplay and play ID cards, NFC review and donation cards, photo mugs, lanyards and card holders.
The businesses named in these case studies are Netbase JSC clients; the web-to-print work described was delivered or designed by Netbase JSC, which operates Web2Print Solutions. Names, links and screenshots are shown with the operator's authorization and removed on request.
- Client
- NS Design, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Status
- Delivered — live store, checked 2026-10-01
- Store
- nsdesignidcards.com, English language
- Platform
- WordPress with WooCommerce (visible in the public page source)
- Products
- PVC ID cards for staff, members, medical alerts and assistance dogs; badges; mugs; accessories
- Work by Netbase JSC
- Custom web-to-print project: template library, online designer and ordering choices
- Engagement period
- Project records from March 2021 to June 2026, about 5.3 years
- Milestones
- 20 recorded project milestones
What problem did the store need to solve?
An ID card looks simple and is not. On a small card a photo, a name, a role, a logo and often an emergency line compete for space. A customer ordering one assistance dog card and an office manager ordering forty staff cards have different needs, yet both expect to finish in minutes.
Many ID card printers handle this with a quote form, emailed photos and a manual proof. That works for large runs and fails for a single card, which is the order NS Design wants to win.
What did Netbase JSC deliver over five years?
Netbase JSC's project records classify the nsdesignidcards.com work as a custom web-to-print project. It qualifies as custom work under Netbase JSC's own rule: the client was scoped through proposals and paid for service work, separate from any product purchase. The records hold 20 project milestones between March 2021 and June 2026. This page does not list them; it describes what a visitor can see on the store today.
The store offers three ways to order. A customer can upload a finished, print-ready design; design online, either from a template or from a blank card; or request that the store's own team designs the card. A template library groups designs by use, such as staff, assistance dog, medical and membership cards, and a help article explains how to order several cards at once.
Worked example: a staff photo ID card. The personalised employee photo ID on 2026-10-01 is a PVC card of 86 by 54 mm, close to the ID-1 format used by bank cards. The product page shows two buttons, custom design and use templates, and tells the customer to register a free account to save a design and come back to it. In the template path the customer replaces:
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Photo
A head-and-shoulders image placed in a fixed frame.
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Identity fields
Name and job title in set positions and sizes.
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Organisation fields
Logo, address, phone and website lines.
Fixed frames matter more on a card than on a flyer: a photo drifting into the edge, or a name too small to read, makes the card useless.
Netbase JSC maintains reusable web-to-print components - a browser-based online designer, rule-based print pricing templates, print-ready PDF output with CMYK conversion, bleed and trim, storefront connectors for WooCommerce, Shopify, Wix and custom stores, and a photobook and multi-page layout editor - which an engagement may reuse under their own licence terms. The catalogue, template artwork, prices, shipping, the design service and card production belong to NS Design.
Which ordering path fits which ID card buyer?
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Individual, medical or assistance dog card
- Typical order
- One card
- Path that fits
- Template, online edit
- What to check
- Photo crop and legibility
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Small business, staff cards
- Typical order
- 5 to 50 cards
- Path that fits
- Template with saved design
- What to check
- Same layout on every card
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Organisation with its own designer
- Typical order
- Any run
- Path that fits
- Upload print-ready file
- What to check
- Bleed, safe area, card size
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Customer with no artwork
- Typical order
- One card
- Path that fits
- Request a design
- What to check
- Proof approval before print
What does this record show, and what does it not?
It shows a niche UK ID card store selling single cards online through templates, a blank-card editor, file upload and a design request.
It does not show order volumes, conversion or revenue; none is claimed. It does not attribute every product, template or option on the store to Netbase JSC. Web2Print Solutions is the web-to-print engineering service of Netbase JSC. Delivery records cited on this site belong to Netbase JSC; where no delivered example of a capability is published, the page says so rather than implying a record.
Key takeaways
- NS Design is a Northern Ireland ID card business whose WooCommerce store was live on 2026-10-01.
- The store sells PVC ID cards with no minimum order, from staff badges to medical and assistance dog cards.
- Customers upload a file, design online from a template or a blank card, or request a design.
- Netbase JSC's records hold a custom web-to-print engagement from March 2021 to June 2026 with 20 milestones.
- No order, traffic or sales result is claimed for the store.
Our view
Position of the CEO, Netbase JSC, dated 2026-10-01. The common mistake in small-format print is to treat the online editor as a free-form canvas. On a card of 86 by 54 mm, freedom is the enemy: customers move the photo, shrink the name and end up with a card no one can read. We think a card store should sell templates with locked frames first, keep the blank-card editor for the minority who need it, and offer a human design request for everyone else. Twenty recorded milestones over five years show why a niche store needs an engagement, not a launch: the store keeps learning which cards customers buy.
How could a similar project start?
If you sell ID cards, badges or other small personalised formats, send a project brief with your card sizes, the fields each card type carries, and how often customers order one card versus a batch. Field and option rules belong in a print product configurator; organisations ordering staff cards for many sites may need a B2B corporate print storefront; and uploaded files need print-ready PDF checks. UK specifics are on web-to-print in the United Kingdom, and WooCommerce on WooCommerce web-to-print. See also live web-to-print stores and the evidence hub.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Open an ID card product and choose custom design or use templates; no order is needed to see the editor.
This page describes personalised printed cards only and claims no official status for them.
References (4)
- Netbase JSC project records for nsdesignidcards.com (custom web-to-print project, 20 milestones, March 2021 to June 2026), reviewed 2026-10-01.
- NS Design public store, nsdesignidcards.com, read-only check from Hanoi, Vietnam, accessed 2026-10-01.
- ISO/IEC 7810:2019, identification cards, physical characteristics, iso.org/standard/70483.html, accessed 2026-10-01.
- WooCommerce documentation, woocommerce.com/documentation, accessed 2026-10-01.