A system for processing chip and/or magnetic stripe cards (K), comprising the following components: at least one card supply magazine for accommodating cards to be processed; two or more chip and/or magnetic stripe processing stations for applying data/information on the chip and/or the magnetic stripe of the cards (K); at least one card body processing station for applying unchangeable data/information on the card body; a card transport system which transports the cards from the card supply magazine(s) to the chip and/or magnetic stripe processing stations and subsequently to the card body processing stations; wherein the system includes a card transport plane (x, y) with a processing sequence axis (y) and an orthogonally extending processing parallelization axis (x) with processing stations of different processing types being arranged in a spaced relationship one behind the other along the processing sequence axis (y), wherein multiple of the processing stations of one processing type are arranged side by side along the processing parallelization axis (x) as a processing module.