Everything that happens after the tap.
Anyone can sell you a card with a chip in it. The question is what happens in the ten seconds after someone taps or scans it — whether their details come back to you, whether you can tell which card did it, and whether any of that costs you a subscription. Here, it does not.
Nobody makes you subscribe to get the lead back.
Or rather: almost everybody does. The thing that makes a card earn its keep is the other person’s details coming back to you — and on most of this market that sits behind a paid tier, often one with a five-seat minimum a sole trader cannot buy.
| What it costs | Universal Contacts | Dot | HiHello | Blinq | V1CE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The card, paid once | £24–£59 | £31–£51 | sells none | $19.99–$80 | £60–£330 |
| Lead capture — their details come back to you | Free | Free | Business tier | Business tier | £49.99/mo |
| Card analytics — taps, views, what each card did | Free | Free (basic) | $6/mo | Business tier | With the card |
| Export your contacts | £3.99/mo | $15/mo | Business tier | $7.33/mo | not stated |
| Cheapest way to get all three | £3.99/mo | $15/mo | $5/user/mo, min 5 | $4.99/user/mo, min 5 | £49.99/mo |
Read that table honestly and one rival comes out close: Dot also gives lead capture away, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. Where it costs you is the moment you want your own contacts out. Their plan is £145 a year on their UK store, against £3.99 a month here — and it ships from the States.
The two biggest free tiers in the category, Blinq and HiHello, both put lead capture in a Business plan with a five-seat minimum. If you are one electrician, that is not an upgrade you are allowed to buy.
And subscriptions drift. Blinq’s Premium tier went from about $2.99 a month to $7.33 between the start of August and today. Ours is the part you can simply never buy.
Every figure read off each company’s own live pricing page on 22 September 2026. Prices move — if you find one that has, tell us and we will fix it.
One profile, every channel
One live contact profile, always current, behind every share method you use.
- One profile, every channel
- Lifetime updates
- Edit anytime
- Multiple profiles
- Cards arrive linked
Every card you hand over can come back as a lead
Contact-back turns a one-way handover into a two-way exchange. No app, no account, nothing for the other person to install.
- Contact-back
- Tagged to the card that made it
- Straight to your dashboard
- Views sat next to leads
QR, NFC, link or save-to-contacts
Pick the method that fits the room. Same live profile behind every one of them.
- QR code
- Tap NFC card
- Shareable link
- Save to contacts
- Wallet pass
- Email signature & call background
- Design it in the Design Studio — seventeen templates and three materials, free before you order
You decide what each person sees
A card for each profile, so you share only what you want. Disable or redirect any card in seconds.
- A card for each profile
- Disable or redirect
- No social media required
- GDPR-aligned
See what each card actually does
Analytics on every card, plus the toolkit and referral extras that come with it.
- Card analytics
- The Toolkit
- Refer & earn — a free month of Pro per paid referral — and your card refers for you too
Design one company card. Every hire inherits it.
Set your brand once and everyone you bring on gets a card built from it — you never chase anyone to match the template.
- One company template
- Brand-locked
- Invite the team
- Re-brand everyone at once
- A card for the company itself
- Activity & control
The same tap, put to work elsewhere
UniversalContacts also powers other tap-to-act tools for your business.
- Google review cards
- Scan a stack of cards — a pile of printed cards straight into Connections — rolling out soon
Free vs the full card range
Same live profile underneath. Pick how you want to hand it over.
| Feature | Free | Plastic £24 | Bamboo £35 | Metal £59 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live profile URL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contact-back capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Card analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifetime updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A card for each profile | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NFC tap-to-share | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Laser-engraved name | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Natural bamboo | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Brushed-steel finish | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Included Pro | — | 3 mo | 6 mo | 12 mo |
| Design yours in the free Design Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refer & earn: free month of Pro per paid referral | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
One-off price · no subscription
It starts with a card. It does not stop there.
One profile behind all of it. A card in your hand, a code on the paper cards you already give out, a stand on a counter, a board at the door — each with its own code, its own history, pointing wherever you send it.
Personal and mobile. One person, handed over.
Countertop, exhibition and reception. Sits where people already are.
Signage for events, shops, venues and public spaces.
Every one in a run can carry its own code, at no extra cost — twenty boards is twenty places to be found, not twenty copies.