of approving an order according to one embodiment of the invention after an order is approved the order is translated to the card processing system 52 and the card processing system 52 sets the order status to u201c submitted u201d next the card processing system 52 processes the order status and sets the status of the order to u201c complete u201d in some embodiments if the card processing system 52 encounters errors while processing an order the card processing system 52 can set the status of the order to u201c complete with errors u201d and or can log and or record one or more errors associated with the order fig6 illustrates further details of the order processing process performed by the card processing system 52 according to one embodiment of the invention after the order is processed the card processing system 52 creates a file or instructions e g an embossing file and sends the file or instructions to a card creation or fulfillment vendor the fulfillment vendor creates the cards and ships the cards to the consumer who the placed order a cardholder associated with each ordered card or a third party recipient based on the shipping method set by the consumer when the consumer placed the order in some embodiments the fulfillment vendor can return created cards to the card processing system 52 and the card processing system 52 can ship the cards as requested by the consumer fig6 illustrates additional details of ordering cards using the b2b ordering application 82 as shown in fig6 a client can register a new consumer using the b2b ordering application 82 after a client registers a new consumer or if a consumer is a registered consumer the.