Patent ID: 7841520

Claim:
A method of providing and processing a plurality of stored-value cards, the method comprising: providing a stored-value card assembly including the plurality of stored-value cards maintained in a housing, the plurality of stored-value cards including a first stored-value card and a last stored-value card, wherein: each of the plurality of stored-value cards is associated with a different account identifier linking each respective one of the plurality of stored-value cards to a different financial record or account, the different account identifiers of the plurality of stored-value cards collectively define a series of account identifiers bounded by the different account identifier associated with the first stored-value card and the different account identifier associated with the last stored-value card; and scanning the different account identifier associated with the first stored-value card using a point-of-sale terminal to enter the different account identifier of the first stored-value card into the point-of-sale terminal; and scanning the different account identifier associated with the last stored-value card using the point-of-sale terminal to enter the different account identifier of the last stored-value card into the point-of-sale terminal, wherein the housing indicates which of the different account identifier associated with the first stored-value card and the different account identifier associated with the last stored-value card should be scanned first.