Most of an electrician's work arrives by phone: a homeowner with a tripping fuse board, a landlord who needs a safety certificate, a builder who wants the first fix next week. Your card has to get your number and license into their phone before that call, and stay right when the number changes.
Electrical work comes from three places: the homeowner who had you out once and now tells the neighbours, the landlord or letting agent who needs periodic inspection reports on a dozen flats, and the builder or kitchen fitter who subs out the electrics on every job. They hire the electrician whose number is already in their phone, so the job of your card is to get saved, not admired.
The homeowner wants to know you are licensed, insured and willing to come out tonight if the power is off. The letting agent wants a name, a license or registration number and an email address to forward to the landlord with the certificate. The builder wants to know whether you do first and second fix, three-phase commercial or only domestic, and how far you travel. A digital card puts all of that on one screen, with your phone number at the top where a thumb lands.
An electrician's card also has to survive time. The homeowner who saves you after a fuse board upgrade may not call for four years, and by then your mobile may have changed or you may have stopped doing callouts. Because the QR code and link open the live card rather than a copy, the details saved in year one still reach you in year five.
An electrician's details are printed in more places than almost any other trade's: the van, the board outside the job, the quote, the invoice, the test certificate you leave behind and the label inside the consumer unit. Change your number and every one of them is wrong, and the van costs the most to fix. Put the QR code on them instead, and the code keeps opening the current card while the number behind it changes.
The same code on a certificate does a second job. Periodic inspection reports fall due again, and a landlord going through the paperwork before a new tenancy scans the code and finds the electrician who did the last one. On a quote, it lets a homeowner comparing three electricians save yours and check the license number before deciding. In your email signature, the link goes out under every quote and invoice without printing anything.
Treat an electrician's card as advertising. Some state licensing boards require the contractor's license number on every advertisement, and some competent-person schemes have rules on how their mark and your registration may be shown, so check your own board or scheme's rule before you publish. Update the card the day a registration renews or lapses so the number and status stay truthful.
Your name and company, a tap-to-call number and a separate emergency line if you take callouts, your license or scheme registration number as it appears on the license, whether you are insured, the electrical work you take, your service area, and a link to your website or reviews. Check your state or scheme's rule on what must appear in advertising before you publish.
Yes. Put it in the tagline or a custom field so it sits near your name, typed exactly as it appears on your license so a homeowner or letting agent can look it up on the public register. Check your own board's rule on advertising, and update the card when the license renews.
On the van, the board outside a job, your quotes and invoices, and the test certificate you leave behind. A homeowner scans it with the phone camera, the card opens in the browser with nothing to install, and saving your number is one tap.
You edit the card and every QR code already on the van or on a certificate keeps opening the new details. The van, the certificates in customers' drawers and last year's quotes all point at the same card, so nothing needs reprinting. Edit the service area or number and it is live at the next scan.
No. They scan the QR code with the normal camera app or tap the link in a text or email, and the card opens as a web page. The save-contact button adds your number, email and company to their phone, which is where an electrician needs to be when the power goes off.
Free forever, no credit card, and your link never changes.