Business Card with QR Code MakerPut your details and a QR code on a card: one scan saves your contact or opens your website. Print 10 per sheet, front and back. Nothing you type is uploaded.

A business card that saves your contact with one scan

A QR code on a business card turns it into a shortcut to you. One scan can save your name, phone and email as a new contact, or open your website, with no typing on the other side.

The code is static: your details are inside the code itself, so there is no subscription to keep it alive and nothing that can expire. It is made in your browser, and nothing you type or upload leaves your device.

How to make a business card with a QR code in 3 steps

1. 1

   Add your details

   Type your name, and any of job title, company, phone, email, website and address you want on the card. Add a logo if you have one, and pick a design and a colour.

2. 2

   Choose what the code holds

   Your contact details, or just your website link. The page reads the code back and tells you how wide it prints. Scan it from the screen with your own phone as well.

3. 3

   Print and cut

   Print 10 cards per sheet on business-card sheets or card stock, at actual size. Do a test page on plain paper first, then cut.

Contact details or a website link?

A contact code holds your details in the vCard format. The phone offers to save them as a new contact, with each detail in the right field. The price is size: every detail you add makes the squares of the code smaller.

A website link is short, so the squares are big and easy to scan. It also lets you change what people see later, because you control the page the link opens. Put your phone and email on that page.

Source: RFC 2426: vCard MIME Directory Profile (IETF)

How big should the code be on a card?

As a rule of thumb, aim for about half a millimetre per square (counting the white margin around the code), and never print a code narrower than about 2 cm. A longer text means more squares, so the code has to be bigger to stay easy to scan.

The page works out the squares for your code and tells you how wide it prints on the card. If it is too small, untick some details (an address is the heaviest), use the website link, or put the code on the back, where it can be much bigger.

Front or back?

On the front, the code sits next to your details and is seen first. On the back, it can be big, with the words “Scan to save my contact” under it, and the front keeps all its room for text.

A back is printed on its own pages after each page of fronts. To use both sides, print double-sided and flip on the long edge.

Paper, sizes and printing both sides

• Cards are 3½ × 2 in on US Letter (laid out like perforated business-card sheets, 10 per sheet) or 85 × 54 mm on A4.
• The margins are the usual ones for these sheets and are not checked against any maker’s template. Print the first page on plain paper with the cut lines on, and hold it against your card sheet.
• Print at 100% (“Actual size”), not “Fit to page”, or the cards will not line up with the sheet.
• Two-sided printing: print one test sheet on plain paper and hold it to the light to check the backs line up with the fronts.
• Turn the cut lines off when you print on perforated sheets.

What to put on a business card

• Your name, large and easy to read.
• What you do: a job title, or a few words about your business.
• One or two ways to reach you. Too many lines make a busy card.
• A logo, if you have one that reads clearly when small.
• A QR code with a few words telling people what it does.