Why do I need QR Codes on business cards?
QR Codes on business cards enable you to easily share your contact details. On our platform you can create QR Codes that hold all your contact information in a simple user interface. You can choose if you want to create a dynamic QR Code that redirects you to a landing page or a static vCard QR Code. In any case, once you scan the QR Code, you can store all the contact information to your address book. But what if you have thousands of contacts and you want to create a QR Code for each of them?
QR Code Business Cards can be manually created or imported through CSV or VCF files.
You can create a batch of QR Code Business Cards for all employees in your company. We have developed an import interface for you to upload a file and create all contacts at once.
After a successful import, a QR Code Business Card or vCard QR Code is created for each contact in the file. In addition, you can select a business card template to determine in advance how the business cards should look after the import.
How do I batch create a group of QR Code Business Cards?
1. Log into your account
Please note that mass creation vCards is only available for paid subscriptions.
2. Go to the import section
Click on the Import section on your sidebar menu and go to Import contacts to batch create your QR Code Business Cards or static vCard QR Codes
Select the import contact wizard
3. Create the import file
You can use a .csv or .vcf file to import your contacts
Prepare a file .csv or .vcf with all the contacts that you need to create. You can also generate them from your Outlook Address book automatically with your existing contacts.
CSV Example
The business cards will use the first name and last name of the contact as shortened URL (e.g. qr.domain.com/name-lastname).
To add a custom text in the About me section of your business card use the column notes in the csv file.
Optionally, you can use the last column to assign a custom shortened URL to each business card (e.g. qr.domain.com/john)
VCF Examples
If you want to add a profile image for the contact you add a base64 encoded image in the PHOTO field. This is also done by Outlook automatically when you export your contacts.
4. Select the import file
Select the .csv or .vcf import file that you created in the previous step.
Upload your contacts by selecting the import file from the previous step
5. Choose the type of business card
The contacts can be created as a business card landing page or as a static vCard QR Code.
- Business card landing pages: can be updated anytime and have their own short URL (recommended)
- vCard QR Codes: can be read offline but info cannot be updated
Select between a vCard QR Code or a QR Code Business Card
6. Encoding options
You may need to turn on the utf-8 encoding if there are any malformed characters after importing the business cards.
Switch on the UTF-8 encoding selector in case of malformed characters on import
7. Apply a template
If you have already created some business cards, you can use any of them as a template. The company logo, background image, GDPR links, call-2-action buttoms and the custom CSS will be used on the bulk created business cards.
Template selector to apply the look and feel of an existing business card
8. Assign a destination folder
Optionally, you can create different folders to keep your contacts organized and select where you want to create your new business cards. You can also create new folders first before importing.
Destination folder selector where your business cards will be imported to
9. Manage the imported batch
Once the batch is created, you can download all the QR Codes for that group, delete them, reset the tracking data, switch the GPS position on/off and switch the scan notifications on/off.
Batch edit or download all QR Codes
Using Outlook to create the CSV import file
Bulk create your business card via API
You can create QR Code Business Cards by uploading contact data information through the Business Card API.