Import contacts to QR Code Business Card or vCard QR Codes

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. 

Log into your account to access your Import menu.

Please note that mass creating vCards is only available for paid subscriptions.

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

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.

Download this CSV example to understand the structure of the csv file.

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)

You can import individual or combined .vcf files as shown in this single VCF example or this combined VCF example.

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.

Select the .csv or .vcf import file that you created in the previous step.

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

You may need to turn on the utf-8 encoding if there are any malformed characters after importing the business cards.

If you have already created Digital Business Cards, you can use any of them as a template; company logo, background image, GDPR links and custom CSS will be applied. 

Any call-2-action button in your template will also be inserted into your newly created Business Cards. Please be aware that all cards will have the same button with the same link.

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.

Now that your QR Codes have been generated, you can find the whole bulk below the Import button.

Next to your bulks you will find a number of buttons targeted at the respective bulk.

Activate this option to get notification E-Mails for each scan of any QR Code within the bulk.

Use this option to get the GPS position of your scans for this bulk.

Click Reset to set back all statistics to zero for the QR Codes within this bulk.

To delete the whole bulk of QR Codes, click Delete and confirm.

View the summarized statistics of the whole bulk of QR Codes by hitting Statistics.

Microsoft Outlook allows you to export your contact information from an address book into a .csv file ready to import into your account.

You can create QR Code Business Cards by uploading contact data information through the Business Card API.