Put the QR code on the van, the quote and the job sign. When someone wants the work done, they scan it and you are in their phone — no fumbling for a pen.
Most trade work arrives sideways. A neighbour watches your van outside a kitchen remodel for three weeks and asks the homeowner who you are. A customer whose bathroom you finished last spring is asked for "your plumber" at a barbecue. A general contractor who used you as a sub needs an electrician again on a job starting Monday. The person recommending you is not the one who will call, so your details have to survive being forwarded from phone to phone, read off a yard sign or pulled from the footer of an old quote.
Whoever opens them wants four things settled before they ring: that you are licensed and insured for work on their property, that you do bathrooms and not only new builds, that you cover their side of the county, and that this number reaches you rather than an office that closes at five. A van door answers one of those; a card that opens on the phone answers all four and ends in a tap-to-call button.
The other half is staying correct as the business moves: a personal mobile becomes a business line, the service radius grows with a second crew, the licence is renewed with a new expiry, the insurer changes. Anything printed on the van, the yard signs or the quote template is wrong the moment one of those moves; a QR code that opens the live card is not, because one edit updates every code already printed.
Every surface that already carries your phone number can carry the code instead: van doors and rear panel, the yard sign at the kerb while a job is visible from the street, the quote template, the invoice footer, the home show banner. The code goes on once and stays, because it does not change when the card behind it does.
Where paper cannot go, the link does: paste it into the text you send after a site visit, so the homeowner has your licence and photos in the same thread as the quote. Add it to the email signature on every estimate and invoice, and to your profile on the neighbourhood app where half your enquiries start. Whoever opens it gets the current number and licence expiry, not what was true when you last ordered vinyl for the van.
If part of your work comes through other contractors, the card has a second audience. A general contractor lining up subs wants your trade, licence classification and a line confirming insurance. A property manager approving trades for forty units wants the service area and the emergency number. A realtor whose listing needs pre-sale repairs wants to forward your details to a seller in one tap.
Send each of them the link once; when you add a trade or change the emergency line, the GC who saved you as a sub last year opens the same link and sees the current version.
Your business name, your trade in plain words, your licence number and classification, an insured-and-bonded line, your service area, an office number and a 24-hour line, and links to finished work, reviews and a quote request. Check your state or local licensing board's rule on what must appear in contractor advertising.
On the van doors and rear panel, on the yard sign outside a job, in the footer of quotes and invoices, and on flyers at the supplier's counter or a home show booth. The code points at the card, not at a copy of it, so each keeps working after your number or service area changes.
No, you edit the card, and every QR code already on the van, the signs and the paperwork opens the new version. That is the point of printing a code instead of the details: the vinyl stays right while the card behind it moves.
No, they point the phone camera at the code on your van or quote, or tap the link in your text, and the card opens as a web page with your number one tap from saved. There is nothing to install, which matters when the person scanning has a leaking pipe behind them.
Yes, add the licence number and classification as text and an insured-and-bonded line, so a homeowner or general contractor sees them before asking. Some state boards regulate how a contractor's licence number appears in advertising, so check yours and follow it. Keep the certificate of insurance ready to send: the card states it, the certificate proves it.
Free forever, no credit card, and your link never changes.