Business Card QR Code

Put a scannable contact on a business card

A business-card QR code stores a vCard, the same contact format phones use when you share a contact from the address book. Someone who scans the code can save your name, phone, email, company, job title, website, and street address without typing them. This page builds vCard 3.0 text in the browser and draws the QR code from that text. Nothing is uploaded.

What goes into the code

The payload starts with BEGIN:VCARD and VERSION:3.0. The name is split into family name and given name so phones file it correctly. Phone numbers use a cell type, and a website without https:// is given that prefix before it is encoded. Commas, semicolons, and line breaks inside a field are escaped so they do not break the vCard structure.

Higher error correction makes the code denser and a bit easier to scan after a card is creased or printed small. Medium (15%) is a practical default for a card that is at least about 2 cm on each side. Print a test scan on the same stock you will use for the final cards.

Related tools

For a plain link, Wi-Fi network, or other short text, use the QR Code Generator. To check a code you already printed, use the QR Code Decoder. A guest network card can use the WiFi QR Code Generator instead of a contact card.