A QR code for your business card that keeps up with you.
Make a code that saves your details straight to a phone, free and with no account. Or make one you can update after the cards are printed, so a new job or number never means a new box of cards.
Demo QR code. Enter your own content and click Generate.
This makes a contact-card code: scanning it offers to save you as a contact. It cannot change once printed. Make an editable one instead, free.
Two ways to put a QR code on a business card
Both are free. The difference is whether the card can change after it leaves your hands.
Contact card code
Your name, number and email stored in the pattern. A scan offers to save you as a contact.
- No account needed
- Never expires
- Can't be changed after printing
- Dense, needs a larger print
Dynamic code to your profile
A short link to your website, LinkedIn or portfolio, which you can point somewhere new at any time.
- Change it after printing
- See how many people scan
- Small, simple pattern
- Free, never expires, no ads
Why a business card is the place for an editable code
Cards outlive your details
A box of cards lasts months, and the ones you hand out sit in wallets for years. A new job, number or email turns every one of them into a dead end.
You print hundreds at once
Reprinting a run to fix one field is the expensive part. A code you can repoint fixes every card already out there, including the ones you will never see again.
It is the smallest thing you print
Business cards leave little room. A short link makes a simpler pattern than a full contact card, so it stays easy to scan at card size.
Before you send the order
20mm
About 0.8 inches square is a reliable size, plus a blank margin on every side.
Dark on light
A dark code on a pale background. Reversed or low-contrast colours fail on some phones.
Scan the proof
Test the printed proof with two different phones before approving the full run.
Questions
What should the QR code on a business card link to?
Either your contact details themselves, so a scan offers to save you straight into the phone's contacts, or a page about you: a website, a LinkedIn profile, a portfolio or a booking page. Contact details are quickest for the person scanning. A page can hold more, and with a dynamic code it can be changed after the cards are printed.
Can I change a QR code after my business cards are printed?
Only if it is a dynamic code. A static code, including a contact-card code, has your details stored in the pattern itself, so changing them means reprinting. A dynamic code holds a short link that you can point somewhere new at any time, and every card already handed out follows it.
How big should a QR code be on a business card?
Around 20mm (about 0.8 inches) square is a reliable target, plus a blank margin around it. A contact-card code packs every detail into the pattern, so it needs that size or more; a short link is far less data and stays readable smaller. Always scan a printed proof before ordering the full run.
Will the QR code on my business card expire?
A static contact-card code never expires, because no service is involved when it is scanned. A dynamic code works for as long as the service behind it keeps forwarding. SunriseQR dynamic codes never expire on any plan, free included, and keep working if you change plans.
Is a business card QR code free?
Yes. The contact-card generator on this page is free with no account. Dynamic codes you can edit after printing are free on SunriseQR too: five on the free plan, with scan stats and no ads.
Print the cards once. Update them forever.
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