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QR code business card generator
This QR code business card generator turns a name, company and contact details into a code that saves straight into a phone's contacts. No paper card to lose, no number typed in by hand.
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Scan it once from the screen before you print a batch. Keep it 2 cm or larger on paper, and leave the white margin around it.
Do more with it
Same code, more placesSave this design - colors, corners, logo and frame - and put it on any code later. Saved in this browser.
One value per line, or paste a CSV. With two columns the first is the file name and the second is the value. Every code uses the design you set up above.
Lay the code out on an A4 page with cut marks, ready for the printer or a label sheet.
What a contact card QR code puts into a phone's address book
A digital business card QR code is not a picture of a card or a link to a profile page - it is a vCard, the contact file format every phone's address book already understands, carried inside the code. In that sense this is a vCard generator whose output you scan.
What a vCard QR code writes into a new contact
Every field in the tool maps to one line of the code - a name becomes N: and FN:, a phone number becomes a TEL line - and a blank field is simply left out. There is no field here for a postal address or a photo, so a scanned contact gets a name, company, role, phone, email and website, and nothing more.
Sam Ellery
Creative Director ยท Rowan Vale Studio
- mobile+44 7700 900123
- emailsam@rowanvale.example
1BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 2N:Ellery;Sam;;; FN:Sam Ellery 3ORG:Rowan Vale Studio TITLE:Creative Director 4TEL;TYPE=CELL:+447700900123 5EMAIL:sam@rowanvale.example END:VCARD
- BEGIN / VERSION opens the record and states the format version - always 3.0 here.
- N / FN the structured name and the plain display name shown in a contacts list.
- ORG / TITLE company and job title - both optional, and left out entirely if blank.
- TEL the phone number, saved as a mobile contact entry.
- EMAIL the email address, also optional.
Built on vCard 3.0, the version every phone reads
vCard comes in two versions in wide use - 3.0 and the newer 4.0 - and this generator writes 3.0, because it is still the one every major contacts app reads without trouble.
| Version | Used by | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| vCard 3.0 | This generator | Read reliably by iPhone, Android, Outlook and Gmail. |
| vCard 4.0 | Newer apps | Adds extra structure, but some phones ignore its fields or fail to import the card. |
More fields make a denser digital business card QR code
Each extra field is more text in the code, and more text means a bigger, denser grid - still scannable, but happier printed a bit larger. Add only the fields someone would actually use.
| Card | Size | QR version |
|---|---|---|
| Name and phone only | 53 x 53 | 9 |
| Every field filled in | 77 x 77 | 15 |
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77 x 77
195 bytes, QR version 15.
Where a QR code business card replaces a printed one
Printed card, digital back
The front keeps the usual design; the back adds a code so the details save without retyping.
Creative Director, +44 7700 900123
Email signature
A small code under the sender's name, for a recipient reading on a phone who would rather scan than copy each field.
sam@rowanvale.example
Sources
Checked September 2026
- RFC 2426: vCard MIME Directory Profile (vCard 3.0)rfc-editor.orgthe fields and format this generator writes
- RFC 6350: vCard Format Specification (vCard 4.0)rfc-editor.orgthe newer version, and what it changed from 3.0
Contacts apps occasionally change how they import a vCard; if a field does not appear as expected on a given phone, that phone's own contacts help page has its current behaviour.
QR code business card questions
No. The phone opens a new contact screen with the details filled in; the reader still taps save, the same as adding anyone else's number by hand.
Not with this generator - it builds name, company, title, phone, email and website fields only. Those would need adding to the contact by hand afterwards.
The format is the same open standard, so a vCard built here reads the same way as one built anywhere else - it is the fields on offer, not the format, that differ between tools.
Yes - vCard 3.0 is read by the built-in contacts app on both, along with Outlook and Gmail.
It is simply left out of the code - a blank title or website does not add an empty line, so the code only ever carries what was filled in.
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