Eight fields, every one editable later.
A vCard is the digital version of the paper business card you used to hand out — name, role, phone, email, links. The difference is that a paper card is frozen the moment it leaves the printer, and a vCard QR you can edit any time without printing anything again.
Beats the paper card in the rooms that matter.
Anywhere the person you're meeting takes their phone out and you take yours out — which is most rooms now — the QR vCard saves a step. The paper card has to make it home, find a wallet, get typed in, and survive a desk drawer. The QR is already in Contacts before either of you has put a phone away.
Lanyard back, badge sticker, slide footer
Print once on the back of your conference badge or on the bottom of your closing slide. Someone scans, you're saved with the conference name in the note field. They never have to remember where they put the paper card.
Email signature + portfolio cover
Sales reps drop the QR in the email signature. Prospects who get the cold email scan once and the rep is saved without a follow-up "can I send you my details" exchange. Lower friction at the only step that mattered.
Portfolio site, proposal PDFs, the last slide
Independent operators ship a proposal with their QR vCard on page one. The prospect saves the contact, the contact survives the project pause — when the prospect comes back six months later, you're still in their phone.
Truck door, van decal, hard-hat sticker
Trades, plumbers, photographers on-site at a wedding — the QR on the van or the hard hat means a passing customer or referrer saves the contact without asking. The next-door neighbour who watched you fix the boiler now has your number.
Talk slide, podcast description, video end-card
Drop the QR on the last slide of every talk. Audience who wanted to follow up scans, you're in their contacts. The QR survives the Q&A awkwardness of "how do I find you afterwards?" because there's nothing to find — you're already saved.
Same job. The QR finishes it in fewer steps.
A paper card and a vCard QR are both contact-handoffs. The paper version needs a wallet, a drawer, and a future moment where someone types your number in. The QR version skips every step except the scan.
Goes home, gets lost, never gets typed in
Hand over, hope it sticks. The receiver has to remember it, find it, transcribe it, and survive every accidental laundry cycle. Industry estimates put the "ever-typed-in" rate at under 20% for cards collected at events.
Scan, save, never retyped
Phone's already out, scan, the contact card appears with a Save button. One tap, done. Saved with the right fields in the right places — phone in phone, email in email, role in role.
What people ask before they print one.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes. Every modern iPhone and Android camera scans QR codes natively. The scan opens the vCard preview on the system and offers a "Save to Contacts" or "Add" button — no app installs, no extra steps.
Can I change my phone or email later without reprinting?
Yes — that's the whole point of routing the QR through a short link rather than encoding the contact details directly into the modules. Update any field in your dashboard, the printed QR keeps working. Anyone who already scanned still has the old details saved on their phone; new scans get the new ones.
What format does the QR actually encode — vCard 2.1, 3.0, 4.0?
The redirect serves a vCard 3.0 file (.vcf with BEGIN:VCARD + VERSION:3.0). That's the format with the widest support across iOS and Android contact apps. The QR itself encodes a short link, not the vCard string — so the QR is small and editable.
Does the QR work offline once someone has it?
The scan itself needs the internet for one short round trip — the phone fetches the .vcf file from the short link. Once saved, the contact lives on the phone offline forever. If you need a fully offline QR, encode the vCard directly into the modules (static) — the trade-off is no edit, ever.
What about LinkedIn, GitHub, my podcast — can the QR include all of those?
The vCard standard has a single website field. The common pattern is to point that one field at a link-in-bio page that holds every other handle, so the QR stays small and the audience picks which link they care about. The walkthrough on how phones save QR contacts covers what does and doesn't survive across iOS and Android.
Can I make different vCards for different events or campaigns?
Yes. Generate one QR per event — the QR stays you, but each one has its own short slug (linkedco.de/sasconf, linkedco.de/web-summit). The dashboard then shows scan counts per event, so you can tell which one actually produced contacts.
Is there a per-scan analytics page?
Yes — every scan logs a row in your dashboard. Date, country, device family. You can also tag each scan with a campaign or source so the analytics surface tells you which slide / decal / signature drove the contact save.
Can I brand the QR with my logo and colours?
Yes — the QR template picker covers round modules, square modules, leaf eyes, and a logo cut-out. On the lifetime tier the short link runs on your own domain and the redirect page is unbranded — useful for sales decks where Linked.Codes' name doesn't belong.
Hand over a contact card without ever printing one again.
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