Digital business card
Your details as a code somebody scans — landing straight in their phone’s contacts, spelt correctly.
- It all happens here
- Every part runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, and it works with the internet off.
- No account, ever
- No sign-up, no email address, no trial that turns into a bill.
- Yours to use
- Nothing watermarked, nothing limited to a preview.
You
How to reach you
Include the things that will still be true in eighteen months.
A contact saved today gets looked at in eighteen months, when somebody finally has the budget. Be sparing with a job title that might change or an address you might move out of — the point is being findable later.
Address (optional)
Anything else
Saved with the contact. Useful for how you met, or what you do for them.
Your card appears here
Put in a name and at least one way to reach you. It is all worked out in this page — nothing about you is sent anywhere, and closing the tab is the end of it.
What this is, if you have never had to think about it
Most people arrive here having been told they need one of these, without being told what it is. Nothing below assumes you already know.
What a vCard is
A vCard is a small file — the .vcf you occasionally see attached to an email — that phones and computers universally understand as "here is a contact". Open one and it offers to save the person to your address book, with the name, number and email already filled in. It has worked the same way for thirty years and needs no app on either side.
Why a code beats saying your number out loud
The two normal ways of exchanging details both fail quietly. A paper card goes in a pocket and is found in a coat in March. Reading a number aloud gets one digit wrong roughly as often as you would expect. A scan puts every character in correctly, including the spelling of your surname, which nobody has ever got right first time.
Keep it to what you will still be doing next year
A contact saved today gets looked at in eighteen months, when somebody finally has the budget. Include the things that will still be true then — your name, your mobile, your website — and be sparing with a job title that might change or an address you might move out of. The point of the card is being findable later, not describing yourself completely today.
Questions people ask
Getting the number is the start of it.
Customers is where that person stops being a contact and becomes a history — what they bought, what you last said, what they asked for and never got. In one place, so the answer is not in somebody’s inbox.
