The paper stays, the details move
The QR points at your live profile rather than at a phone number. Change the number and every card you have ever handed out points at the new one. Nothing gets reprinted and nothing gets binned.
QR code business cards
QR code business cards that stay current
A QR code business card is a printed card with a code people scan with their phone camera. On most, the code is fixed the day it is printed. Ours carries a UniversalContacts touchpoint: a code that opens your live profile, so the card stays right when your number changes.
From £33 per pack of 50 · 7–10 working days · UK delivery £10.19 per order, free over £100 of printed items
Why this one
A card to leave behind rather than tap. Printed both sides with a QR, for the moments when somebody wants something to put in a pocket.
Every card in the run can be different
A pack does not have to be one design. Each card can carry its own name and its own code at no extra cost, which is what makes a box of them work for a team rather than for one person.
You find out whether they were used
Each code has its own history, so a box handed out at one show and a box left on a counter are two different numbers rather than one guess.
Why put a QR code on a business card
People already point a camera at codes on menus, parcels and posters, so a code asks nothing new of them. It saves them typing your number and email, and it gives you something a printed number cannot: a way to change what the card opens after it has left your hands.
A code also works on any phone with a camera, where a tap needs NFC. If you want both, our NFC business cards carry a chip and a printed QR on one card.
The usual QR code business card, and what goes wrong
Three things commonly go wrong. A code that holds your details directly, as a vCard, cannot be changed: a new number means a new print run. A code from a free generator often points at the generator’s own short link, which can stop working, or start showing adverts, if that account lapses. And a code printed too small, too close to the edge or over a busy background may not scan at all.
The first two are why ours opens a UniversalContacts address that we run and you control. The third is a design question, and how big a QR code needs to be covers the sizes, including the one we have printed and scanned ourselves.
How big the QR code is on the card
The Design Studio applies the quiet zone and the error-correction level for the size it prints, so the code is not something you have to size by eye. The printed card is a slightly different shape from a bank card, and UK business card size explains the difference and what to send a printer if you design it yourself.
Pack and prices
QR code business card prices
| Pack | Per pack | Per card |
|---|---|---|
| 50 cards | £33 | 66p a card |
| 100 cards | £34 | 34p a card |
| 250 cards | £41 | 16p a card |
| 500 cards | £51 | 10p a card |
| 1000 cards | £59 | 6p a card |
7–10 working days · UK delivery £10.19 per order, free over £100 of printed items. Made to order, and priced on the page — pick a size and order it. A quote is for a bigger run than the page will take, a size or finish we do not list, or something the range does not carry. Cards, by contrast, are posted free within 7–10 working days.
What happens if you ask
Five steps, and you can stop at any of them
Design it, or do not
Make it in the Design Studio, send us artwork, or let us set it from the profile you already have. None of the three costs anything and none of them commits you.
Tell us what you need
Size, quantity, and where it is going. About a minute. Those three are what a price depends on, which is why the form asks for them rather than for a paragraph.
The price is on the page
Pick the size and the quantity and the total is there, delivery included in the basket. Nothing is priced by hand unless you ask us to - which is what the quote form is for.
A person checks it before it prints
Every order gets a human look at the artwork and the specification before anything goes to press. Nothing is made while you are still thinking about it.
It is made and sent
Made to order and delivered. The code on it stays yours: point it somewhere else next year and the thing you are holding carries on working.
Why order it here
Four things a printer cannot say
A person checks it
Every order gets a human look at the artwork and the specification before it goes to press. A calculator sets the price; a person stops the mistake.
Delivery is a stated rate
One flat UK rate per order, free once the printed items pass the threshold. No carriage surprise between accepting a price and paying it.
Nothing is made until you say so
A quote is an invitation to buy. It becomes an order when you accept and pay it, and not a moment earlier.
The code outlives the print
Point it at something else whenever you like. The printed thing does not have to be reprinted because a number changed.
Where it goes
They go where a tap is awkward or unwelcome: across a counter, into a wallet at a trade counter, stapled to a quote, dropped through a door. They are also the cheapest way to put your profile into a lot of hands at once, which is the case a single NFC card cannot make.
What it is made of
- 85x55mm, 300gsm matt, printed CMYK.
- Every card in a pack may carry a different design at no extra cost.
What it is not
This is printed card stock, not an NFC card - there is no chip in it, and it is scanned rather than tapped. If you want the thing that works with a tap, that is the NFC card. You can carry one of those and give a box of these away.
The code behind it
Every one of these carries its own code, and the code points at a live profile rather than at a phone number. Change the profile and the printed thing stays correct; point the code somewhere else and it starts doing a different job without being reprinted. Each code keeps its own history, so a set of them tells you which one people used. More on that in how the codes work, and the whole range is on one page.
If it is for a stand or a show, the events page puts the staff cards, the table stand and the board together in one setup.
Questions people ask before they fill the form in
- Can every card in the pack be different?
- Yes, and it costs no more. Each card can carry its own name and its own code, which is what makes a box of them work for a team rather than for one person.
- What happens when my number changes?
- Nothing, to the cards. The QR points at your profile rather than at a number, so you change the profile once and every card already handed out points at the new details.
- Is there a chip in these?
- No. These are printed card stock and they are scanned, not tapped. The chip is in the NFC card, which you can carry alongside a pack of these.
- What is a QR code business card?
- A printed business card with a QR code on it that a phone camera can scan. On ours, the code opens your live contact profile rather than a fixed page, so the card stays right when your details change.
- Can I change where the QR code goes after printing?
- Yes. It opens your profile, so you change the profile and every card follows. You can also point a card at a different profile later without reprinting it.
- Will the QR code still work in five years?
- It opens a UniversalContacts address, so it works for as long as we run that address. That depends on us rather than on a third-party short-link service, and nothing about it is charged monthly.
- Do people need an app to scan it?
- No. The camera app on current iPhones and on most Android phones reads a QR code directly: point it at the code and open the link that appears.
- Should I get a QR card or an NFC one?
- Printed QR cards are cheaper per card and suit giving away in quantity. An NFC touchpoint costs more, once, and can be tapped as well as scanned. You can carry one touchpoint and hand out printed cards.
Something not answered here? Ask a person — there are two of us and no ticket queue.
QR code business cards
Every scan, logged against the thing that carried it
Somebody scans it and sends their details back, so the enquiry arrives with the code it came from attached.
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.
See it in action →