Welcome to the Accord Scheme

The Accord Card is Aberdeen City Council's smartcard which provides access to a variety of local and national services such as Access to Leisure, Young Scot, school meals at all of the councils twelve secondary schools, free bus travel and much more. The Accord Card team is always looking for new and exciting benefits so other services may be added in the future.

NEW! Online Accord Card Top-Ups for Secondary Schools

Parents and guardians can now top-up their child's Accord Card online. This new method of top-up means there is no longer any need to give children money to take to school to load onto their Accord Card to pay for school meals.

This safe, secure and convenient method of payment can be used by entering the Accord Card number and secondary school online on the Accord Payment Form .

A maximum of £40.00 can be loaded at any one time and is credited to the Accord Card when it is used in the dining area or the school office (allowing a maximum of 48 hours for the payment to be processed and passed to the school).

Should you have any questions or to find out more please phone the Accord Helpline in Aberdeen on 0845 3452789.

 sQuid reaches out to new retailers

The growing popularity of sQuid in Aberdeen means citizens can now pay with sQuid on their Accord Card at two new retailers in the city.

sQuid can now be used to pay for coffee, lunch or snack at the Beautiful Mountain and Books and Beans on Belmont Street.

sQuid is a new kind of cash: smart cash. It can be used to pay for those everyday items such as your morning coffee, your lunchtime sandwich, borrowing a DVD at the Central Library, hiring skates from Linx Ice Arena and much much more!

We are giving away a Free £5 to the first 100 people who register their card and top up online with sQuid. Offer ends 31 August 2011.

Also for a limited time we are offering 10% cashback on all sQuid payments you make with your registered Accord Card.

sQuid is now accepted in Aberdeen at:

• Aberdeen Art Gallery Coffee Shop
• Beach Leisure Centre & Cafe
• Books & Beans
• Beautiful Mountain
• Bucksburn Swimming Pool
• Bridge of Don Swimming Pool
• Central Library
• Kincorth Sports Centre
• Linx Ice Arena & Cafe
• Northfield Swimming pool
• Provost Skene's House Cellar Cafe
• Westburn Tennis Centre

For terms and conditions and to find out more visit sQuid in Aberdeen.

20% Young Scot Discount - Now Available at Giraffe Union Square

Get 20% off your food bill at Union Square's new Giraffe Restaurant using your Accord Card Young Scot benefit for those aged 26 and under. Offer is available Monday to Friday.

Find out more about Young Scot and the discounts available in your area.

Terms & Conditions Update

Those cardholders that use the cashless catering facilities at local authority secondary schools should note a change to section 15 of the terms and conditions of using the Accord Card.

This section now reads: "Cardholders are free to cancel their Accord Card membership at any time, by phoning our helpline on 0845 3452789. On termination, whether voluntary or otherwise, monies held within the electronic purse shall be refunded to the cardholder (subject to a £5 minimum value)."

Should you have any questions regarding this change, please contact the Accord Office on 0845 3452789.