Share your contact details as a QR code

A QR that adds you to someone’s contacts is faster than spelling an address aloud. What goes in the card and what scanning actually does.

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The job

At an event or on a business card, you want the other person to save your details without typos. A vCard QR encodes name, organization, phone, email, and site into a format phones recognize as a contact.

Filling the card

Only include fields you actually want to give out — everything in the QR is readable by anyone who scans it or sees the image. Name is what most phones display; title and organization help the card sort correctly.

Keep it short. Every character makes the QR denser and harder to scan at small sizes; the tool caps the payload at 1400 characters.

What scanning does

A phone camera reads the vCard and offers to save a contact — it does not send your details anywhere, and generating the code here uploads nothing. Test the printed or displayed code with your own phone before handing it out.