Generate a QR code business card in seconds. Share it at meetings, print it on paper, or add it to your email signature — anyone can scan and save your details instantly.
Free Generator
Choose a type, enter your content, and hit Generate. Your QR code appears instantly — no account required.
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No account, no watermarks, no download limits. Every feature is available to everyone at no cost.
Any smartphone camera can scan the QR code — iOS, Android, no special app needed.
Business card QR codes save your contact directly into the scanner's phone address book.
Step by step
It takes less than 30 seconds from start to download. Here is exactly what happens at each step.
Select Text / URL for a simple link or plain text, or choose Business card to encode a full vCard contact. The business card option lets you include your name, phone, email, company, job title, website, and address all in one code.
Fill in the fields relevant to you. You don't have to complete every field — even just a name and phone number will generate a useful contact QR. The more information you add, the more complete the saved contact will be on the recipient's phone.
Hit Generate QR code. Your QR code appears in the preview panel instantly. You can adjust the size (from 180 px up to 420 px) and toggle the quiet zone border. Any change regenerates the code immediately.
Click Download PNG to save the image to your device. Use it anywhere: print it on a business card, add it to a flyer, paste it into an email signature, or display it on a screen at your next networking event.
A QR code business card is a black-and-white scannable image that stores your contact information in a format called vCard. When someone points their smartphone camera at it, the phone recognises the code and immediately offers to add you to their contacts — no app, no typing, and no fumbling with paper cards.
Traditional paper business cards get lost, smudged, or thrown away. A QR code can live on your phone screen, on a printed card, inside a PDF proposal, or on your website. It is always accurate because you generate a new one whenever your details change, and it costs nothing to update or re-share.
For freelancers, consultants, and small business owners especially, a QR code business card signals tech-savviness while saving the time and embarrassment of asking someone to spell out their email address twice.
Who uses it
Whether you are handing out details at a conference or adding a contact link to your website, here are the most popular ways people use QRCode Business Card.
Instead of fumbling for a paper card, show your QR code from your phone lock screen. Attendees scan it and your details land straight in their contacts. No paper waste, no mistyped emails, and no "sorry, I've run out of cards" moments. Many professionals now keep their QR code as their phone wallpaper so it's always one tap away.
Add your QR code to the footer of proposals, invoices and presentations. Clients can scan the code at any time to instantly call or email you — no searching through email threads for your number. It also works perfectly on your LinkedIn profile banner, your email signature, or a portfolio site, giving every touchpoint a frictionless way to contact you.
Print your QR code on product labels, receipts, packaging inserts or your storefront window. Customers scan it once to save your business contact — and they'll have your phone number and website the next time they need you. It's especially effective for trades, repair services, and any business where repeat customers are the lifeblood of the operation.
Share your QR code in a virtual background, a slide deck, or the chat window of a video call. Participants can photograph their screen and scan the code later at their convenience. It's also a practical solution for webinar speakers, podcast guests, and online workshop hosts who want to give attendees an easy way to follow up.
Common questions
Everything you need to know about creating and using QR code business cards.
A QR code business card is a scannable image that encodes your contact information using the vCard standard — the same format used by Apple Contacts and Google Contacts. When someone scans it with a smartphone camera, they are automatically prompted to save your name, phone number, email address, company, job title, website and postal address directly to their contacts app. It removes the need for paper cards and eliminates the risk of a contact being typed in incorrectly.
Yes, completely free. There are no subscription tiers, no credits system, and no watermarks on your downloaded images. You can generate and download as many QR codes as you like, for personal or commercial use. The site is supported by Google AdSense display advertising, which is how we keep the service free for everyone.
No account is needed. You can arrive at the page, fill in your details, and download your QR code in under a minute. We deliberately keep the tool sign-up-free because requiring registration just to generate an image is unnecessary friction. Your browser never stores your contact details after you leave the page.
No. When you hit Generate, the information you entered is sent as part of a request to api.qrserver.com, a third-party QR image service, solely to render the QR code image. We do not log, store or analyse the contact details you enter. Once you close or refresh the tab, the data is gone entirely. You can verify this in our Privacy Policy.
For printing, select the largest size available — 420 px. Standard business cards are 85 × 54 mm, and most designers recommend placing your QR code at 25–35 mm square on the back of the card. At 420 px the image is sharp enough for most commercial printing resolutions (300 dpi). As a practical rule, any QR code smaller than 2 cm × 2 cm when printed may be difficult to scan reliably, so err on the larger side.
Any modern smartphone with a camera can scan these QR codes. On iPhone (iOS 11 and later), simply open the native Camera app and point it at the code — no extra app needed. On Android (Android 8 and later), the Google Lens feature built into the camera app handles QR codes automatically. Older Android devices may need a free third-party QR scanner app, but the vast majority of phones in use today support native scanning.
A URL QR code simply encodes a web address. When scanned, the phone opens that URL in a browser — useful for directing people to a website, a menu, a document, or a social media profile. A vCard QR code encodes a structured block of contact data. When scanned, the phone offers to save the person as a new contact with all the fields (name, phone, email, etc.) already filled in. For sharing contact details directly, vCard is the better choice; for driving traffic to a webpage, a URL QR is the simpler option.
Yes — simply come back to this page, enter your updated details, and generate a new QR code. Because the contact information is stored inside the QR image itself (not on a server), each newly generated code is independent. If you have already printed the old code, you would need to reprint with the new one, which is why many people put their QR code on digital materials (email signatures, presentations, websites) rather than large print runs. For short print runs like business cards, regenerating whenever details change is perfectly practical.
Yes. The QR codes generated by this tool are yours to use however you like — personal or commercial, print or digital. There are no licensing restrictions on the output images. You can print them on business cards, marketing materials, merchandise, or embed them in commercial documents without any attribution requirements.
Who we are
We believe sharing your contact details should be as frictionless as showing your phone screen. QRCode Business Card was built to give everyone — freelancers, small businesses, remote workers, and professionals of every kind — a free, instant, no-fuss way to do exactly that.
Paper business cards have been the standard networking tool for decades, but they have real problems: they get lost in coat pockets, details become outdated the moment you change jobs, and handing them out at a busy conference feels like hoping for the best. Meanwhile, typing someone's email address from a card is slow, error-prone, and frankly a poor experience in 2025.
QR codes offer a direct solution. They are universally supported by modern smartphones — no special app, no Bluetooth pairing, no tapping phones together. But most QR code generators are either paywalled after a few downloads, plastered with watermarks, or bury the business card feature behind a premium subscription. We wanted to build the tool we wished existed: completely free, clean, and focused on the one job of creating a scannable contact code.
QRCode Business Card lets you generate two types of QR codes. The first is a simple text or URL code — useful for sharing a website, a portfolio link, a LinkedIn profile, or any piece of plain text. The second is a full vCard business card QR, which encodes your name, phone number, email address, company, job title, website and postal address in a single scannable image.
When someone scans the vCard QR with their iPhone or Android camera, the operating system reads the embedded contact data and immediately asks if the user wants to save it to their address book — all fields pre-filled, no typing required. The whole interaction takes under three seconds.
Generated codes are available to download as PNG images in four sizes: 180 px, 240 px, 320 px, and 420 px. The larger sizes are suitable for commercial printing on business cards, posters, or product packaging at standard print resolutions.
Make professional digital networking accessible to everyone, everywhere, at zero cost — no exceptions.
Your contact details are never stored on our servers. Generation is handled entirely by a third-party image API and nothing is logged.
We add features based on real user needs. No bloat, no paywalls — if something makes the tool genuinely more useful, it goes in for everyone.
The tool is fully responsive across desktop, tablet and mobile so you can generate a QR code from whatever device you have at hand.
When you click Generate, your input — whether a URL or a vCard payload — is sent as a query parameter to api.qrserver.com, a reliable and widely-used QR code rendering API. The API returns a PNG image which is displayed in the preview panel. Nothing is stored on our servers at any point in this process; the API call is made directly from your browser.
The vCard data is assembled client-side (in your browser) from the form fields you fill in. It follows the vCard 3.0 specification, which is the format supported by all major contact apps including Apple Contacts, Google Contacts, and Microsoft Outlook. Special characters are properly escaped before encoding so that names, addresses or job titles containing commas, semicolons or line breaks are handled correctly.
To cover hosting and ongoing development costs, the site displays non-intrusive Google AdSense advertisements. These ads are served by Google and may be personalised based on your general browsing behaviour — you can opt out or adjust your preferences through Google's Ad Settings at any time. We do not sell, share, or otherwise monetise the contact information you enter into the generator.
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Legal
Your privacy matters to us. This policy explains what data (if any) is collected when you use QRCode Business Card, how it is used, and your rights in relation to it.
Last updated: May 2025
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Depending on your location, you may have rights including the right to access, correct, or delete data we hold about you. Because we do not store personal data entered into the generator, there is typically no data to access or delete. For any queries regarding your rights, please reach out through the Contact button in the navigation bar.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
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