Contact Card (vCard) QR Code Generator

A vCard QR code is a digital business card: scan it, and a phone's contacts app opens with the name, number, email, organisation and title already filled in — no manual typing, no missed digit, no "let me text you my number" at a loud reception. It's the natural companion to an event planner, a wedding coordinator, or a vendor who hands out dozens of contact details a week: print it once on a card or a signature, and every scan saves a complete, accurate contact instead of a fragment copied from a photo of a business card. It works identically on iPhone and Android, since it encodes a standard VCARD 3.0 record that every phone's native contacts app already knows how to read — nothing proprietary, nothing that needs an app install. Fill in whichever fields are relevant; phone and email are optional if you only want a name and organisation on the card. As with everything else generated here, the contact details are encoded directly into the code and never touch a server.

Most of what goes wrong with event QR codes is using one where a plain link would already do. They earn their place wherever someone is standing in front of something physical: a digital invitation with a QR back-link to the same invite online, an RSVP form printed on a save-the-date, walking directions to the venue on a welcome board, a live-stream link at the entrance for guests who couldn't travel, a shared photo-upload album so every phone's candid shots land in one place, a gift registry on a return-gift card, a UPI shagun code at the reception desk so cash gifts don't need loose change, or the reception Wi-Fi password on every table so nobody's asking the DJ for it. If you're building the invitation itself, Eventic's invitation templates and built-in RSVP tracking already cover the first two without a separate code — this tool is for everything printed, standing, or handed out on the day.

A code that scans perfectly on a laptop screen can still fail once it's printed, and it's almost always one of five things. Size — print it at least 2x2cm, larger if it will be scanned from more than arm's length; a table centerpiece needs a bigger code than a business card. Quiet zone — leave the blank margin around the code alone; cropping it tight to save space is the single most common reason a code stops scanning. Contrast — dark modules on a light background scan far more reliably than the reverse, because many phone cameras expose for the bright area and lose the code's fine detail on a dark card; if you want a dark invitation, put the QR code on a light panel rather than inverting its own colors. Logos — one covering more than about a quarter of the code needs "H" (high) error correction in the Advanced tab, or the area it covers may not be recoverable. And before printing 300 invitation cards, print one and test it on both an iPhone Camera app and an Android phone with Google Lens or its default camera — the two platforms don't always behave identically, and a five-minute test now is cheaper than a reprint.

There are two kinds of QR code. A dynamic QR code points to a short redirect link that a service can repoint later, so the destination can change after printing — useful for scan tracking, but it depends on that service staying online, and most start charging after a trial. A static QR code, which is what this tool makes, encodes your actual content directly into the code itself — the link, the Wi-Fi details, the vCard — with nothing in between. It never expires and never depends on a third-party service staying in business. The trade-off is that you can't repoint it after printing, so double-check the details before 300 cards go to print.