If you searched for Beaconstac, you are looking for Uniqode — the company renamed, and beaconstac.com now redirects to uniqode.com. Here is how it compares with Popl on what each vendor actually publishes, and which job each one is built for. Both were re-read on 5 September 2026.
A lot of the searches for this comparison still use the old name. Beaconstac rebranded to Uniqode, and the rename is visible on the vendor's own infrastructure rather than only in press coverage: as of 5 September 2026, https://www.beaconstac.com/ answers with an HTTP 301 and sends you to https://www.uniqode.com.
That matters for anything you read while researching. Reviews, prices and feature lists published under the Beaconstac name describe the same product line, but they predate the rename — and in this category prices move, so treat the numbers in them as historical and check uniqode.com/pricing for what is true today.
These two are not really competing for the same buyer any more, which makes the choice easier than it looks.
Choose Popl if your job is events. As of 5 September 2026 popl.co leads with "Your AI GTM platform for in-person events" and its pricing page sells unlimited events and conferences, an AI-native universal badge scanner, verified contact and company data enrichment, event campaigns with qualifying questions, and self-serve CRM and calendar integrations with native Salesforce, HubSpot and Marketo sync. Digital business cards are on the list — "Digital business cards for your team" — but they are one line item in an event-marketing platform. You will book a call to find out the price.Choose Uniqode if you want to buy a card yourself, today. It publishes its rates, the first card is free, and additional seats are $6 per user per month. The catch is commercial rather than functional: paid subscriptions are annual only.If you are one person or a business of three, look again at both. Popl will not quote you without a meeting, and Uniqode will not bill you monthly. Those are the two friction points that send people to a third option.| What to check | Popl | Uniqode (formerly Beaconstac) | CompanyCard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | None. The pricing page's only call to action is “Request Pricing” | Yes — Team $6 per user per month; Business+ custom | Yes — Free, Pro $7.99/mo, Business $12/user/mo |
| Free plan | None published — the word “free” does not appear on the pricing page | First card free, and free-plan cards “remain free forever with essential features” | 1 card, QR & link sharing, Apple and Google Wallet — carries a small CompanyCard credit |
| Monthly billing | Not published | No — “we do not offer monthly plans”; annual only | Monthly or annual |
| How you start | Request pricing, then a call | Sign up and buy online | Sign up free; the Business plan is “Talk to us about teams” |
| What it is built around | Event lead capture and badge scanning at conferences | QR codes at scale, with digital business cards alongside | One card for a small business or self-employed person |
| If you stop paying | Not published | Free-plan cards stay; paid cards last “as long as your account subscription is active” | Free plan is the floor — there is nothing to stop paying for |
| Money back | Not published | 30-day money-back guarantee | Free plan — you can try it without paying at all |
Read from popl.co, popl.co/pages/pricing and uniqode.com/pricing on 5 September 2026; the beaconstac.com redirect was checked the same day. Vendor terms change — check both before deciding. CompanyCard figures are our own published rates on our pricing page, where annual billing is labelled “Save up to 25%”.
We are the third option in that last paragraph, and it is worth being precise about how small the advantage is.
Where we lose. On the headline team number Uniqode is cheaper: $6 per user per month against our $12 Business plan. If you have five people, are happy to pay for a year, and want the lowest published rate, Uniqode is the better buy and this page is not going to argue otherwise. Our free plan is also one card, and it carries a small CompanyCard credit — removing that is part of Pro. Our Business plan is not self-serve either; the pricing page says “Talk to us about teams”. And our own pricing page states plainly that billing is not live yet — paid plans are currently a preview, so nothing is charged.Where we hold up. Three things, all checkable on the three pricing pages linked above. We bill monthly, where Uniqode states it does not offer monthly plans. We publish our rates, where Popl publishes none and quotes over a meeting. And our free tier is a complete working card — QR code, sharing link, profile and socials, Apple and Google Wallet pass — rather than a trial that expires.If you are a sole trader or a business of two or three who wants one good card this afternoon, without a sales call and without committing a year of budget, that is the case. If you are staffing trade-show booths, go and book the Popl demo.
Yes. Beaconstac rebranded to Uniqode, and the old domain now points at the new one: as of 5 September 2026, https://www.beaconstac.com/ returns an HTTP 301 redirect to https://www.uniqode.com. So a search for "Popl vs Beaconstac" is a search for Popl vs Uniqode, and any Beaconstac review or price you find from before the rename describes the same product under its old name.
It depends on the job, and for most small businesses neither is aimed at you. Pick Popl if your work is capturing leads at trade shows and conferences: as of 5 September 2026 its own pricing page sells unlimited events, an AI-native universal badge scanner, contact and company data enrichment, and native Salesforce, HubSpot and Marketo sync. Pick Uniqode if you want a digital business card you can price and buy yourself today, especially alongside a QR-code programme, and you are willing to commit for a year.
Popl does not say. As of 5 September 2026 its pricing page publishes no rates and no tiers — the page is headed "Simple pricing for teams of all sizes" and the only call to action is "Request Pricing". The word "free" does not appear on it at all, so there is no free plan to compare against. You will find out the number on a call.
As of 5 September 2026 Uniqode's first digital business card is free, additional seats are on the Team plan at $6 per user per month, and Business+ is custom-priced. Billing is annual only: Uniqode states "No, we do not offer monthly plans, and it is not possible to change your subscription from an annual to a monthly plan." It offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. Check uniqode.com/pricing before deciding — terms change.
Uniqode draws the line at the free plan. Its pricing page states that "Digital business cards created on the Free plan will remain free forever with essential features, while cards made on Team and Business+ plans will stay accessible as long as your account subscription is active" (read 5 September 2026). In other words the free card survives; a paid card is tied to an active subscription.
It loses on the headline team price: Uniqode's Team plan is $6 per user per month against our $12 Business, so for a team that is happy to pay annually Uniqode is cheaper and we will not pretend otherwise. What we have against this pair is narrow and checkable — we bill monthly where Uniqode states it does not offer monthly plans, we publish our rates where Popl publishes none, and our free plan is one working card rather than a trial. Note our free card carries a small CompanyCard credit, and our pricing page states that billing is not live yet — paid plans are currently a preview, so nothing is charged.
A single card, priced in public, billed by the month, free to start. That is the gap CompanyCard fills between these two.