Digital business cards
The card that
saves itself.
They point a camera at your code. Your name, number, email and socials land in their phone, spelt correctly, in one tap. Change a detail later and every card you have ever handed over updates itself.
Free forever plan. No card details. Live in about four minutes.
Working with
- Ziptron
- Dr. R.K. Thakur Hospital
- RBM Hospital
The difference
What the paper one actually does.
Nothing here is unfair to print. It is simply what a fixed object does when the information on it stops being true.
A box of five hundred printed cards
- Reprinted the day anybody's job title changes
- Sits in a jacket pocket until it goes through the wash
- Your email typed in by hand, with one letter wrong
- No idea whether it was ever looked at again
- You are out of them at the one event that mattered
A card that lives on their phone
- Edited once, correct everywhere, immediately
- Saved into contacts before they leave the room
- Every field filled in by the phone, not by a person
- Views, saves and taps, from the very first scan
- You cannot run out of it
Start to finish
Scan. Tap. Saved.
About four seconds from someone raising their phone to your details sitting in their address book, with no app on either side.
- 01
Build it once
Name, role, numbers, socials, a photograph and a cover image. It takes about four minutes.
- 02
Show the code
On your phone, in your email signature, on a badge, or printed on a stand at an event.
- 03
They scan
The stock camera on any iPhone or Android opens it. No download, no sign up, nothing to explain.
- 04
It saves itself
One tap writes a full contact card into their phone, with every field where the phone expects it.
22 templates
A card that looks like the work you do.
Every card below is the real template, rendered by the same component that renders your live card. Not a picture of one. Change the colours, the fonts and the cover, or paste your own HTML.
What is included
Everything the paper one could not do.
All of it works on the card you make in the first four minutes. There is nothing to enable afterwards.
QR and NFC, no app
The stock camera reads it on iOS and Android. Write the same link to an NFC tag and a tap does exactly the same thing.
Change it after you hand it out
New number, new title, new company. Edit once and every link and printed code you have already given away shows the new details.
Saved, not screenshotted
A proper contact file goes into the address book with name, numbers, email, website, socials and photo. Not a picture of a card they will never find again.
Your own domain
card.yourcompany.com instead of somebody else's brand on your card. Two DNS records, and the certificate is handled for you.
Whole team, one dashboard
Generate cards for five hundred staff from a spreadsheet, lock the template so the branding holds, and switch a card off the day someone leaves.
22 templates, or your own HTML
Pick one and change the colours, fonts and cover. Or paste your own HTML and CSS and we will render exactly that, with your fields substituted in.
The moment that matters
One tap, and you are in their contacts.
Not a screenshot buried in a camera roll. A real contact file, with every field where the phone expects it, so your name comes up when they search for you six months later and cannot remember your company.
- Works with the stock camera on iOS and Android, with nothing installed
- Photograph, role and company travel with the phone number
- Saved offline, so it does not stop working in a basement or on a plane
- No account needed by the person receiving it, ever
Off the screen
Printed once, changed whenever.
Put the code on a badge, a stand, a shopfront or the back of the paper card you already have. Because the destination stays editable, printing stops being a decision you have to live with for a year.
- SVG for print and PNG for screens, from the same card
- Scans are counted exactly like link opens, in the same dashboard
- Repoint it without reprinting anything
- Works on an NFC tag or a metal card just as well
cards.gc.mw/rajiv
On three hundred badges. Retitled twice since printing.
For a team
Five hundred cards, one afternoon.
Upload a spreadsheet and everybody gets a card on the house template. Lock the layout so nobody invents their own version, and switch a card off the day somebody leaves rather than hoping the old ones stop circulating.
- Bulk generation from a CSV, in one pass
- One template enforced across the whole organisation
- Deactivate a card without deleting the record behind it
- Analytics per card, and a roll-up across the team
Every feature
The whole list, and which plan it needs.
Written out rather than hidden behind a comparison grid, because the thing you are looking for is usually the one nobody thought to put in the grid.
The card
- Templates
- 22 of them, from corporate to brutalist to something that looks like the phone's own contacts app. Each one is a real component, not an image.
- Starter set free, all on paid
- Your colours and fonts
- Change the palette, the typeface and the cover image without leaving the editor. Nothing needs a designer.
- Paid
- Custom HTML and CSS
- Paste your own markup and we render exactly that, with your fields substituted in. The QR code, contact download and analytics all keep working.
- Paid
- Cover and portrait
- Upload both. Photo-led templates use them; plainer templates ignore them gracefully rather than breaking.
- All plans
- Custom domain
- card.yourcompany.com with a CNAME and a TXT record. The certificate is issued and renewed for you.
- Add-on, included on Team
Sharing
- QR code
- SVG for print at any size and PNG for screens. The code survives being blown up onto a stand, and keeps working after you edit the card.
- All plans
- Save to contacts
- A proper contact file rather than an image, so every field lands where the phone expects it and the card works offline afterwards.
- All plans
- NFC
- Write the card link to any tag or metal card. A tap opens the same page as the QR code and survives edits the same way.
- All plans
- Save as image
- Export the card as a picture for places that will not take a link, such as a printed programme.
- Paid
- Phone reveal
- Show your number only when somebody asks, rather than publishing it, if the card is going somewhere public.
- All plans
Teams and measurement
- View analytics
- Views, saves and taps per link, with country and device, read from the same rollups as short links so the page stays fast.
- Paid
- Bulk generation
- Upload a spreadsheet and get a card per person, all on the house template, in one pass.
- Team
- Locked template
- Force one template across the organisation so the branding does not drift once five hundred people can edit their own.
- Team
- Deactivate a card
- Switch a card off the day somebody leaves without deleting the record or the history behind it.
- Team
- Remove our badge
- The Growcord line disappears from the public card on any paid plan.
- Paid
Never wonder again
Find out who actually looked.
A paper card goes into a pocket and you never hear about it again. Yours reports back: every view, every save, every tap on your number, within seconds of it happening.
- Views
- Every open, live
- Where from
- City and country
- Which device
- iOS, Android, desktop
- What they tapped
- Call, mail, socials
Views, last seven days
What they tapped
Is this for me
Three people who kept losing the introduction.
A doctor seeing forty patients a day
Paper cards went missing between the consulting room and the car park, so repeat bookings came through the switchboard or not at all.
The number is saved under her name before the patient leaves the room.
A broker working from the pavement
Every viewing ended with somebody photographing a phone number off a board.
A QR on the yard sign. The contact saves itself while they are still standing there.
A CTO after a rebrand
Two hundred printed cards became wrong overnight, along with the email format on all of them.
One edit on a Tuesday afternoon, and every card already handed out was correct by the evening.
Built for your world
Whatever you do, your card should do it better.
The common thread is meeting people away from your desk, where a printed object is the thing most likely to fail you.
Sales teams
Know which prospect opened your card, and when it is worth following up.
See howFounders
A first impression that matches what you are actually building.
See howReal estate
Turn a yard sign or an open house into a saved contact rather than a photograph.
See howCreators
One link that books work instead of a bio full of dead ends.
See howStraight comparison
Against paper, and against a metal card.
Metal NFC cards are lovely objects. They are also a printed object with a fixed link, which is the part worth thinking about before you buy fifty.
| Digital card | Printed paper | Metal NFC card | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per person | $49 a year | Reprinted every change | High, once per person |
| Change your title | Instant | Reprint the box | Usually reprint |
| Saves to contacts | One tap | Typed by hand | One tap |
| Works without the object | |||
| You can run out | |||
| Tells you who looked | Rarely | ||
| Photo and socials | Not really | Depends | |
| Whole team at once | Bulk from CSV | A print run | Order per person |
Nothing stops you doing both. Plenty of people print the QR code onto the paper card they already have.
In practice
What changed after they switched.
“I put the QR on every yard sign. People scan it standing on the pavement and my number is in their phone before they have even called the office.”
“We rebranded and two hundred printed cards became landfill. With this we changed the logo on a Tuesday afternoon and every card in circulation was correct by Tuesday evening.”
“Patients used to lose the paper card between the clinic and the car park. Now the number is saved under my name in their contacts before they leave the room.”
One story in full
Two hundred cards, obsolete in an afternoon.
“The rebrand landed on a Tuesday. Every printed card we had was suddenly wrong: old logo, old domain, old email format. We changed the template once and by that evening every card anyone had already handed out was showing the new details. The printed box went into the recycling and we never ordered another.”
Underneath
Opens fast, on whatever they are holding.
A card that takes four seconds to load is a card nobody waits for. The whole thing is built around that one number.
No app, either side
The stock camera reads the code and the card opens in the browser. Nothing is installed by anybody.
NFC as well as QR
Write the link to any tag or metal card. Both keep working after an edit.
Print ready output
SVG at any size, so the code survives being blown up onto a stand or a hoarding.
Your number on your terms
Reveal a phone number only on request, if you would rather not publish it outright.
Last 30 days
The awkward questions
What you publish, and what you keep back.
A business card is public by design, which makes the controls around it worth understanding before you make one.
Phone reveal on request
Publish the card without publishing the number. It is shown only when someone asks for it.
Deactivate, do not delete
Switch a leaver's card off while keeping the record and its history intact for the organisation.
Your data comes out
Cards and their analytics export on demand. Nothing is held hostage if you decide to leave.
Account security
Two factor authentication and magic links on the account, because the card is only as safe as the login behind it.
Fits what you already carry
Share it however you already share things.
The card is a link. Anywhere a link goes, the card goes with it.
You already have printed cards
Do not throw the box away.
The fastest way to start is to keep using what you have already paid for, with one addition.
- Make the card firstFour minutes, on the free plan, with no card details. You will have a working link and a QR code at the end of it.
- Put the code on what you haveA sticker on the back of the existing paper cards works, and costs almost nothing.
- Add it to your signatureMost of the first scans come from email rather than from meeting anyone, which is the part people underestimate.
- Reprint only when you run outBy then you will know whether the digital one is doing the work, and the next print run can carry the code properly.
Pricing
Start free. Pay when it earns its keep.
The card is sold on its own or included with a plan. Billed yearly, cancel whenever, and the free plan does not expire.
Free
One card, no card details
- One digital business card
- Starter templates
- Public shareable link
- QR code
- Growcord badge shown
Cards
Most popularOne person, everything unlocked
- All 22 templates and custom HTML
- Your colours, fonts and cover
- Save to contacts and save as image
- Full view analytics
- No Growcord badge
Team
For a whole organisation
- Everything above, per person
- Bulk generation from CSV
- Locked house template
- Custom domain included
- Deactivate on the day someone leaves
The card is also included on Pro and above, at $15 a month, alongside short links and a subdomain.
Which one am I
Answered as a sentence, not a matrix.
- You want to see whether people actually scan it
- Free
- One card, a real link and a QR code, with no card details. Enough to try it at one event and find out.
- You meet people often and the card is doing real work
- Cards
- All 22 templates, your own colours, full analytics and our badge removed, for $49 a year.
- You also share links and want your own name on them
- Pro
- The card comes bundled with short links and a subdomain for $15 a month, which is cheaper than the parts.
- More than a handful of people need a card
- Team
- Bulk generation, a locked house template, a custom domain, and the ability to switch a leaver's card off the same day.
Buy two, save 20%
The card is one of three, and they share an account.
The card opens from a short link. The short link reads better under your own name. Take more than one and the price drops.
Before you ask
Questions people actually ask.
Does the other person need an app?
No. They point their phone camera at the QR code, and the built-in camera on any iPhone or Android reads it and opens your card in the browser. Saving it to their contacts is one more tap. Nothing is installed on either side.
What happens when I change my number or job?
You edit your card and it is done. The link and the QR code never change, so every card you have already shared, every badge you have printed and every email signature you have sent out shows the new details immediately.
Is it really free?
Yes. The free plan gives you one digital business card, starter templates and a public link, with no card details required. Paid unlocks all 22 templates, custom HTML, analytics and removal of our badge.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Point a CNAME at us, add one TXT record to verify ownership, and your cards live on card.yourcompany.com with a certificate we manage. It is a paid add-on on personal plans and included on the team plan.
Can I run cards for my whole team?
Yes. One dashboard holds every card in the organisation. Generate them in bulk from a spreadsheet, force a single template so the branding stays consistent, and deactivate a card the day somebody leaves.
Does it work with an NFC card?
Yes. Write your card's link to any NFC tag or metal card and a tap opens the same page as the QR code. Both keep working after you edit your details, which is the thing a printed metal card cannot do on its own.
Can I design the card myself?
Yes. Start from one of the 22 templates and change the colours, fonts and cover, or paste your own HTML and CSS and we will render exactly that, with your fields substituted in and the QR code, contact download and analytics all still working.
What is the difference between this and a bio page?
A card is built to be saved into a phone as a contact. A bio page is built to send people onward to your links. They share the same name and the same analytics, and plenty of people use both.
Read first, buy later
Understand it before you pay for it.
Everything below is free to read and none of it needs an account.
Make a QR code with no account
The same generator the cards use. Useful for testing how a code prints before you commit to anything.
ProductCard or bio page, which one
One saves you into a phone, the other sends people onward. The difference matters more than it sounds.
GlossaryThe vocabulary, defined
Redirect codes, UTM parameters, referrers and the rest, in plain words with the detail that matters in practice.
ComparisonsHow we compare
Side by side with the other shorteners and bio tools, with checked prices and a verdict rather than a shrug.
BlogGuides from the people who run it
Redirects, UTM tracking, QR for print and link safety, written from operating the thing rather than from a keyword list.
Everything else
Written up in more detail.
Your last box of paper cards has already been printed.
Build the one that updates itself, reports back, and is always in your pocket. Free to start, about four minutes to finish.
No credit card. Free forever plan. Cancel anytime.