The plain-language answer: how digital business cards work, how they compare to paper, and which type fits you.
See a live exampleA digital business card is a shareable web page with your contact details — name, title, phone, email, photo and links — that you share via a personal link or QR code. The person receiving it opens the card in their browser and saves your details to their contacts with one tap; no app is needed on either side. Because the card lives online, it is always up to date and never has to be reprinted.
Where a paper card is a static piece of cardstock, a digital business card is a live page you control. Change your title, number or company, and everyone who has your link or QR code sees the current version. Most services add extras a paper card never could: a save-to-contacts button, video, maps, booking links and statistics on how often your card is viewed.
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Paper cards still work as a ritual — handing something over has a certain weight. But as a way of actually transferring contact details, they lose on most counts. An honest comparison:
A digital card updates the moment your details change. A paper card is frozen at the print date — a new title or number makes the whole box obsolete.
One link or QR code can be shared any number of times at no extra cost. Paper cards run out at exactly the wrong moment and cost money to reorder.
A digital card tells you how many times it was viewed and how often the QR code was scanned. A paper card gives you no signal at all — most end up in a drawer or a bin.
No printing, shipping or discarded boxes when details change. A digital card is a web page — the only physical thing involved is the phone already in your pocket.
Where paper still wins: it needs no phone at all, and some people simply like the gesture. Nothing stops you from carrying a few paper cards with a QR code printed on the back — many Digicard users do exactly that.
"Digital business card" covers a few different approaches. They all end in the same place — your details in someone's contacts — but they get there differently:
Your card is a web page with a personal URL and QR code. Works with every phone, nothing to buy, receiver needs no app. This is how Digicard works.
A physical card or tag with an NFC chip that opens your page when tapped against a phone. Feels slick, but you have to buy, carry and replace the hardware — and it usually opens the same kind of web page a QR code would.
Cards that live inside a dedicated app. Fine within one ecosystem, but sharing gets clumsy if the app expects the receiver to install something too.
Your card's QR code as a pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet — one swipe from the lock screen, or on your Apple Watch. A convenient carrier for a link-based card rather than a separate card type.
Digicard combines the first and last of these: a QR/link-based card with Apple Wallet, Apple Watch and Google Wallet passes on Pro plans — no hardware to buy, nothing for the receiver to install. Teams can manage cards under a shared company profile so every card carries the same branding.
A shareable web page with your contact details, shared via a personal link or QR code. The receiver opens it in their browser and saves your details to their contacts with one tap. It is always up to date and never needs reprinting.
As a link — in email, chat or your email signature — or as a QR code the other person scans with their phone camera. With Digicard the QR code can also sit as a pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, always one swipe away.
No. The card opens in any browser on any phone, and one tap saves your details as a contact — no app to install, no account to create, on iPhone and Android alike.
Some basic services are free; professional ones are usually paid. Digicard costs $29/year (Basic), $49/year (Pro) or $499/year (Business Pro, 12 cards). Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial — no charge until the trial ends, cancel anytime. See pricing.
It depends on the provider. Digicard is run by a Swedish company (Succé Kommunikation AB), is EU-based and GDPR-compliant. You decide which details appear on your card and can change or remove them at any time.
Yes, via a wallet pass. On Digicard's Pro plans your card becomes a pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, so the QR code is available from your lock screen — or your Apple Watch — without opening a browser. The receiver still just scans it with their camera.
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