Contact QR code (vCard)
A business card ends up in a drawer; a contact QR ends up in the phone's address book. vCard is the standard format iPhone and Android use to exchange contacts: scanning the QR prompts the phone to save your name, phone, email, company and website with one tap: no typing, no typos.
Fill in only the fields you want to share. Everything except the name is optional. The QR is generated in your browser (your details are never sent to any server) and it's yours forever: print it on business cards, add it to your email signature, or show it from your screen at events.
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How it works
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Fill in your details
First and last name as you want to appear in the other person's address book. Phone with country code so it works from anywhere.
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Add company and website if relevant
They're optional, but they turn a loose contact into a complete professional one.
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Download and use it
SVG for print-quality business cards, PNG for email signatures and screens. Scan it yourself before sending anything to print.
How much to put in
There is a real tension here: every field you add makes the code denser, and a denser code needs to be printed larger to scan just as fast. A vCard with name, phone, email and company produces a code that stays comfortable to read even printed small on a business card. Add a full postal address, two phone numbers, a website and a job title and the picture fills up with thin little squares, at which point it starts failing on older cameras or in poor light.
The practical rule: include what the other person needs in order to contact you today, not everything that exists about you. Name, one phone number, one email and the company cover ninety per cent of cases. If you need to give more context, a link code pointing at your site or professional profile is better, and you can change that without reprinting the card.
How iPhone and Android handle it
We generate vCard 3.0, the format both systems have read without trouble for years. On scanning, the phone does not save the contact by itself: it shows a card with the details and waits for the person to confirm. That is a good thing, because it lets them check and fix anything before saving.
There are minor differences worth knowing if the card matters to you. iOS shows the full details inside the camera app itself and saves in one tap. Android, depending on the manufacturer and version, sometimes opens the browser or Google Lens first and offers the action as a second step. No data is lost either way: what changes is the number of taps. If you are handing the card out at an event, it is worth testing on one phone of each kind before sending it to print.