Contact QR Code Generator (vCard)

A business card handed over is a business card lost: it goes in a pocket, through the wash, and disappears. A contact QR Code fixes the problem at the source — the person points their camera, the phone shows a card with your details, and they tap "create contact". Nothing gets typed, nothing gets typed wrong, and your details land in the address book of the people who matter.

What a vCard is

vCard is the standard electronic business card format, used for decades by phones, email clients and address book systems. It is structured text with labels for each piece of information — name, phone, email, company, job title, address, website. Because it is a universal standard, iPhone, Android, Outlook and Gmail all know how to read it without any app.

A contact QR Code simply carries that text. When scanned, the system recognises the format and offers to save it to the address book.

How to create yours

1. Fill in the name — it is the only genuinely required field.
2. Add whatever else makes sense: phone, email, company, job title and website.
3. Check the preview before downloading. A typo here goes into everyone’s address book.
4. Download as SVG for printing on cards, badges or signs, or as PNG for email signatures and profiles.

Fewer fields make a better code

This is the part almost nobody mentions, and it is why so many contact QR Codes out there simply fail to scan.

A QR Code grows denser as the content grows. Because a vCard carries several lines of text, it is naturally one of the heaviest types. Fill in every possible field — full name, two phones, two emails, company, job title, full postal address, website, social profiles — and the result is a mesh of tiny squares that demands a good camera, good light and a large print to work.

In practice:

• Include only what someone genuinely needs to reach you. Usually a name, one phone, one email and the company are enough.
• Avoid a full postal address unless it is essential — it is one of the longest fields.
• If you really do need a lot of data, increase the print size. A packed vCard on a 2 cm business card is a recipe for failure.
• An elegant alternative for long profiles: use a link QR Code pointing to your contact page instead of embedding everything in the code.

Logo in the centre: extra care here

Putting a logo in the middle of a QR Code works because the standard includes error correction — part of the code can be covered and the reader still reconstructs the information. The catch is that a vCard is already consuming that headroom with its density.

We apply high error correction automatically, which reserves roughly 30% redundancy. Even so, with a vCard the advice is to keep the logo small and test on at least two phones before printing.

Where to use it

• On the back of a printed business card — the classic and most effective use.
• On event and conference badges, for networking without exchanging paper.
• In an email signature, as an image.
• On the door or window of a practice, office or shop.
• On uniforms, service vehicles and site boards, for self-employed providers.
• On the closing slide of a presentation, so the audience can save your contact.

Privacy: whatever you put in becomes public

A contact QR Code has no access control: anyone who scans it sees everything inside. If you plan to print and distribute widely, use professional details — work phone, work email, company address. Keep your personal mobile and home address for codes you hand to specific people.

On our side, none of it touches a server: the code is assembled in your browser and the data you type is never sent to or stored by us.

Other QR Code types

Each QR Code type stores information in a different way. See which one best fits your case:

• Link QR Code (URL) — opens a website in the browser.
• Wi-Fi QR Code — connects to the network without typing the password.
• PIX QR Code — receives payments in the Brazilian standard.
• WhatsApp QR Code — opens the chat with a ready message.
• Email QR Code — opens the mail app with the subject filled in.
• SMS QR Code — opens the message with the text ready.
• Phone QR Code — opens the dialler with the number.
• Text QR Code — stores the information and works offline.
• App download QR Code — sends each phone to the right store.