Weight you notice
Brushed metal, engraved rather than printed. It lands differently in the hand than a plastic card does.
Metal NFC card
A metal card that means it.
A brushed-metal NFC business card with your name and QR engraved into it — £59, paid once. One tap shares your whole contact profile, and the profile stays live long after the card has left your hand.
Posted free, 7–10 working days
What you get
What the metal NFC card does
Tap or scan
One tap on a modern phone, or one scan of the engraved QR if theirs has no NFC. No app for either of you.
Never out of date
Your number lives on the profile, not on the chip. Change it once and this card points at the new one.
Nothing to charge
No battery, no screen, no firmware. A metal NFC card is a code and a piece of steel.
What a metal NFC business card actually is
It is a bank-card-sized piece of brushed metal with an NFC chip inside it and your name, your handle and a QR code engraved into the face. There is no battery, no screen and nothing to charge or update. The chip holds one short code; everything anybody sees lives on a web page you control.
That distinction is the whole product. A cheap card writes your web address onto the chip, which makes the card a printed object with your details frozen into it. Ours writes a permanent code that we resolve at the moment somebody taps it. Your number, your email, your links and your photograph sit on the profile behind the code, which is why a card you handed out in March still works in November when your mobile has changed.
The metal is the part you are choosing when you land here rather than on the plastic or bamboo page. The system underneath is identical on all three.
What happens when somebody taps a metal card
You hold it near the top of their phone. Their phone reads the code and shows a notification; they touch it and their ordinary browser opens your profile. Name, job title, mobile, email, website, WhatsApp, socials, payment link, whatever you have put on it. It takes about a second and it ends with your details on their screen.
What does not happen is the part that decides whether these things work at all. They do not install an app. They do not create an account. They are not asked to agree to anything before your phone number appears. Every extra step in a hand-over loses some of the people you just met, and this one has none. If their phone will not tap, they scan the engraved QR and land in the same place.
What metal is better at, and what it is not
Better: it is heavier than people expect, which is the point. A metal card gets looked at, turned over and commented on, and the conversation you were having carries on for another thirty seconds instead of ending. It also survives being carried. It does not soften at the corners in a back pocket the way a printed card does, and the engraving is cut into the surface rather than sitting on top of it.
Not better: it costs more than twice what the plastic card costs and does exactly the same job. It is heavier in a wallet, which some people like and some do not. It cannot be printed in full colour, because it is engraved — if your brand lives in a particular shade, the plastic card carries it and this one will not. And it is the wrong card to hand out fifty at a time; a team pack of plastic exists for that.
We would rather say that here than have you find it out after it arrives.
Engraved, not printed
The metal card comes in two finishes, Ledger and Engraved. Both are cut into brushed metal rather than printed on it, so what you are choosing is the layout and the weight of the type rather than a colour. You can see both, and put your own details into them, in Design Studio before you order anything.
Whatever you choose, the back carries the QR. That is not a compromise on the design: it is the difference between a card that works on every phone in the room and one that works on most of them.
What £59 includes
- The metal NFC card, engraved with your name, handle and QR
- Posted free, 7–10 working days
- Twelve months of Pro, included rather than sold alongside
- The live profile, the QR, sharing and contact-back — free, and free after the twelve months too
- Tap and scan counts for the card, included
- The right to re-point or disable the card at any time
What it does not include is a subscription you have to keep paying to stop the card working. There is no such thing here. Pro is optional, it adds export, webhooks and integrations, and when the included year ends the card carries on exactly as before.
Metal, bamboo or plastic
Plastic at £24 is the one to buy if you are going to hand over a lot of them, or if your brand needs full colour. It is not a lesser product; it is the same chip and the same profile in a lighter object.
Bamboo at £35 sits in between. It is warmer in the hand than plastic and it says something about you before you have said anything.
Metal at £59 is for the hand-over you want remembered. If you meet a small number of people whose decision is worth a lot, that is the case for it. If you are not sure, start with a free profile — it costs nothing, you can share it by QR today, and the card can follow once you know how you actually use 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. What happens when you change your number goes through all three arrangements in full.
Fair questions
The things people actually ask
What if their phone has no NFC?
Every card carries a printed QR as well as the chip. They point the camera at it and the same profile opens. Older phones, work phones, a locked-down site phone — all fine. Nothing to install either way.
Do they need to download anything?
No. Your profile opens in whatever browser is already on their phone. This is the single biggest reason people actually finish sending their details back — there is nothing standing in the way.
What happens when I change my number?
You change it once in the browser and every card you have ever handed out points at the new one from that moment. The card in someone's van from two years ago still works. That is the whole point of the thing.
I lost a card. Can someone misuse it?
Disable it from your dashboard and it stops resolving immediately, or point it at a different profile instead. You can also run a separate profile — its own card, QR and link — so the card you hand to strangers never carried your home address in the first place.
Common questions about metal NFC cards
What is a metal NFC business card, exactly?
A card the size of a bank card, cut from brushed metal, with your name and a QR code engraved into the surface and an NFC chip inside it. Somebody holds their phone near it and your contact profile opens in their browser. It is the same system behind our plastic and bamboo cards; what changes is the object you hand over.
Does it work if their phone has no NFC?
Yes, and this is why the QR is engraved on every metal card rather than offered as an extra. They point the camera at it and land in exactly the same place. Practically every iPhone since the XR and every mainstream Android of recent years will tap, but work phones with NFC switched off and older handsets are common enough that a card without a QR disqualifies part of the room.
Will a phone case stop it working?
A thick case, a metal case or a wallet case with cards in it can weaken the tap or stop it. That is true of every NFC card, not only a metal one. It is the other reason the QR is engraved on the front: when the tap does not take, nobody has to stand there trying again.
Can I change where the card points later?
Yes, and that is the part a cheaper card cannot copy. Your web address was never written onto the chip. The chip holds a permanent code that we resolve, so you can point the card at a different profile, or switch it off entirely, from your dashboard - without the card coming back to you.
What happens if I lose it?
You disable that card from the dashboard and it stops resolving. Anybody who taps it after that reaches nothing. You then order a replacement pointing at the same profile, and the cards you have already handed out are unaffected.
Does the engraving wear off?
Engraving is cut into the metal rather than printed on top of it, so there is no surface layer to rub away the way ink on plastic can. Brushed metal does pick up the marks of being carried, which most people rather like and some do not - it is worth knowing before you buy one.
Do I have to subscribe to anything?
No. The card is paid once. The profile, the QR, the sharing, the contact-back form and the tap counts are free and stay free. Pro adds export, webhooks and integrations for a few pounds a month, it is optional, and this card includes twelve months of it.
Is it worth more than twice the plastic card?
It does exactly the same job, so the honest answer is that you are paying for how it lands, not for what it does. If you hand over two cards a month to people whose decision is worth having, it earns that. If you are emptying a box of fifty at a trade stand, buy the plastic ones and spend the difference on something else.
If you want the whole system rather than this one card, how it works walks it end to end, and pricing lays out every product and what is free.
Not just a heavy card
It reports back, too
The metal card does more than turn heads: the person you meet can send their details back, and you see every tap and scan - no app for either of you.
Contact-back
Anyone viewing your card can send their name and number straight back — no app, no account. Connections land in your dashboard.
See it in action →Card analytics
Views, taps and connections per card with a 30-day activity view. Included free.
See it in action →The Toolkit
Email signature, video-call background and Apple Wallet or Google Wallet pass, generated from your live card.
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