One profile, every channel
Phone, email, WhatsApp, website, reviews, payment links. All behind one tap or scan.
Features
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.
The honest comparison
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 | $30–$50 | 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 |
| Made and posted in the UK | Yes | US | US | US/AU | UK |
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 — $15 a month there against £3.99 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 checked against each company’s own live pricing page on 18 August 2026. Prices move — if you find one that has, tell us and we will fix it.
The bit that ages well
The card never changes. Where it points does.
This is the difference between a card you own and a card you are stuck with, and it is worth understanding before you buy anybody’s.
A cheap NFC card
The web address is written onto the chip itself. That is why it is cheap, and it works fine — right up until something changes.
- New number? The card still points at the old page.
- To fix it you need every card physically back in your hand.
- Some sellers say “reprogrammable” — that means you re-encode each one yourself with a phone app.
- Lost one? It carries on working for whoever picked it up.
One of ours
The chip carries a permanent code, and we decide what that code opens. The card is a key; the lock is ours to change.
- New number, new role, new company — change it once, in a browser.
- Every card you have ever handed out follows, including the ones you will never see again.
- Point a card at a different profile entirely, whenever you like.
- Lost one? Switch it off from your dashboard and it stops opening anything.
Which is why we can sell you a card and then never charge you again: the thing that keeps it working is not a subscription, it is that the destination was never on the chip.
Who it’s for
Built for people who get phoned, not networked.
Most digital business cards are built for conference badges and sales teams. Useful, if that is your week. It is not most people’s week.
Ours is built for the electrician who gets rung at half seven, the marina office that takes berth-holder calls all summer, the mobile hairdresser whose whole diary is rebookings, the sole trader who quotes on a driveway. You are not collecting business cards at an expo. You are handing your number to someone standing in front of you and hoping they still have it in March.
That is the job: make the number impossible to lose, make it easy for them to send theirs back, and make sure that when the number changes, nobody has to be told.
01 — Live identity
One profile, every channel
One live contact profile, always current, behind every share method you use.
Lifetime updates
Change a number once. Every card you ever handed out points at the new one from that moment.
Edit anytime
Update your role, address or details from any browser. No app, no waiting.
Multiple profiles
Run a separate card for work, a side business or a team role. One account, many profiles — each with its own colours and logo.
Cards arrive linked
Pick who each card is for at checkout — one of your profiles, or a team member by email. It arrives ready to tap; invited members link up the moment they sign up.
02 — Lead capture
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
Anyone viewing your card can send their name and number straight back — no app, no account, typed on the phone already in their hand.
Tagged to the card that made it
Every connection records which card and which profile produced it, so you can see what is actually working.
Straight to your dashboard
Leads land in your Connections list within seconds, ready to call, quote or follow up.
Views sat next to leads
Card analytics sits alongside connections — taps and views per card, next to the leads each card produced.
03 — Sharing
QR, NFC, link or save-to-contacts
Pick the method that fits the room. Same live profile behind every one of them.
QR code
Static QR for print, a quote, a van decal or an email signature. Scans on any phone camera.
Tap NFC card
Plastic, bamboo, dual-chip or metal card with embedded NFC. Tap any modern phone, profile opens in the browser.
Shareable link
A clean URL you can drop in WhatsApp, an email, or a social bio.
Save to contacts
One tap saves your details straight into the recipient's phone. vCard download included.
Wallet pass
Save your card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet from the dashboard Toolkit — your QR on your phone, always.
Email signature & call background
Generate a branded email signature and a video-call background from your card, ready to paste into Gmail, Outlook, Teams or Zoom.
Design it in the Card Studio
Twelve templates, four materials, your colours and logo — style your card in the browser with a live front-and-back preview, free, before you order.
04 — Privacy & control
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
Run a separate profile — its own card, QR and link — for each audience. Share the public one with anyone; keep a private one for a password-locked, expiring link.
Disable or redirect
Lose a card? Disable it from your dashboard, or point it at a new profile in seconds.
No social media required
Share professionally without surrendering a profile on any social network.
GDPR-aligned
UK-built. Delete your public profile and account data at any time. Legally required records remain for the periods listed in our Privacy Policy.
05 — Know what lands
See what each card actually does
Analytics on every card, plus the toolkit and referral extras that come with it.
Card analytics
Views, taps and connections per card with a 30-day activity view. See which card in the wild actually gets used. Included free.
The Toolkit
Email signature, video-call background and Google Wallet pass — all generated from your live card in one place.
Refer & earn
When someone you refer places their first paid order, you get a free month of Pro. Your card refers for you too — anyone who taps it and later buys earns you the month.
06 — Teams & companies
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
Design the company card once in the Card Studio and save it as your template. New joiners start from it automatically, colours and logo already in place.
Brand-locked
Lock your logo and colours so teammates only edit their own name, role and contact details. The brand stays consistent across the whole crew.
Invite the team
Invite by email or share a join link, order a branded card straight from the roster, or bulk-invite a whole list at once. Each card links up the moment they set it up.
Re-brand everyone at once
Change the company colours or logo and every teammate on the company brand updates automatically. Anyone who has left keeps their card as a personal one.
A card for the company itself
Create a company card — your logo, brand and company details on its own tap link and QR, separate from anyone's personal card.
Activity & control
A running log of invites, joins, removals and brand changes. Export your team list any time, or remove the organisation entirely — everyone keeps their own card.
07 — Beyond your card
The same tap, put to work elsewhere
Universal Contacts also powers other tap-to-act tools for your business.
Google review cards
A tap-for-a-review NFC card that sends customers straight to your Google review page. Turn every happy customer into a rating — see our review cards for cafes, salons and trades.
Scan a stack of cards
Back from an event with a pile of paper cards? Scan them straight into your Connections in one go. Rolling out soon.
Compare
Free vs the full card range
Same live profile underneath. Pick how you want to hand it over.
| Feature | Free | Plastic £24 | Bamboo £35 | Dual-chip £45 | 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 · tree planted | — | — | ✓ | — | — |
| MIFARE access (opens gates) | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Brushed-steel finish | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Included Pro | — | 3 mo | 6 mo | 6 mo | 12 mo |
| Design yours in the free Card Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refer & earn: free month of Pro per paid referral | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
One-off price · UK made and fulfilled