Conferences are where paper cards go to die — collected politely, pocketed, and binned at the airport. A code someone scans puts you in the phone instead of the bin.
If you exhibit, speak or sell at events for a living, the deal is rarely closed on the show floor. A buyer stops at your stand for four minutes on the way to forty others. Twenty people reach the lectern after your talk and each gets ninety seconds. At a wedding fair a couple passes sixty suppliers in an afternoon and empties the tote bag onto the kitchen table on Sunday night.
Whatever you hand over has to survive that bag and a Monday inbox with three hundred unread emails. A digital card is built for that gap: the delegate scans the QR code on your lanyard insert or stand banner, or you email the link that evening, and the live card opens with the stand where you met, what you do in one line, and a booking link so the next step does not involve ringing anyone. Because QR code, link and email signature open the same current version, a card saved at one show shows the right stand at the next.
Different people open your card after a show. A corporate buyer from a trade show wants what you sell, who you have done it for, and a demo link to forward to whoever signs off. A couple from a wedding fair opens it on the sofa beside the other cards from the bag: photos first, then a starting price or a date check, then an enquiry route that is not a Sunday phone call.
A conference organiser wants your talk topics, a past talk and an email for a speaker invitation. Other suppliers refer work too: the caterer recommends the florist, the venue manager passes on the AV company she trusts. Email your link to the exhibitors around you so it is in their phones when that happens.
Your stand number changes with every show, and so does the hall. The show offer built for one expo means nothing at the next. Your title goes from coordinator to lead planner, the company rebrands, the booking link changes when you switch scheduling tools.
Every one of those details is printed somewhere: the lanyard insert, the pull-up banner, the brochure in the delegate bag, the table card, the last slide of your talk. Reprinting all of it between two shows a fortnight apart is not realistic. With a digital card the QR code on all of those items opens one live card. Change the stand line on the train to the venue and the banner printed in spring is right again.
Most organisers publish an exhibitor manual that says what you may hand out, where (your own stand, not the aisles), and how attendee data may be collected. A QR code that visitors choose to scan gives them your details rather than taking theirs, but read each show's manual rather than assume.
If you supply events, check what your venue or local licensing body expects on marketing material: caterers may be asked for a food business registration, bar services for an alcohol licence, and most suppliers for proof of public liability insurance before load-in. Designations such as CMP or CSEP have their own display rules and usually need recertification, so check the issuing body's guidance first. Rules vary by country and venue, so check before you publish.
What you do in one line, the company, the stand and hall or session where people met you at this show, a portfolio or gallery link, a booking or quote link, the mobile and email you answer during show week, and the regions you cover.
Print the QR code on the stand banner, a table card, your lanyard insert and the last slide of your talk. A visitor scans while you finish with the person in front of them; the card opens as a web page with nothing to install and they save you in a tap.
Yes. The QR code and link open the card itself, not a copy, so an edit shows everywhere the code is already printed. Change the stand line, show offer, title or booking link between shows and the banner, lanyard insert and brochure all show the current version. Edits are unlimited.
Only in the form the issuing body or licensing authority allows. Event-industry designations usually have display rules and lapse if you do not recertify, and venues may want registration, licence or insurance details shown a particular way. Check the guidance first; if it changes, edit the card once and every printed QR code shows the corrected wording.
Free forever — and a wallet pass so your code opens without unlocking an app.