Business cards, IDs, badges, member cards and profiles all start from the same record and the same designer.
A digital business card puts your photo, title, company, contact buttons and links on one mobile page. People save you to their phone in a tap, and every change you make shows up on the card they already have. Share it by QR code, link, email signature or NFC tag, with no app needed on either side.
A QR code business card carries a code that opens your digital card, where people save your contact with one tap. Put it on paper cards, name badges, slides or signage, and update what it opens without reprinting. Every scan can turn into a captured contact.
An NFC business card lets people tap their phone against a card, tag or sticker to open your digital card and save your contact. CardDeck gives you the link to write to any NFC tag you own, and counts taps alongside QR scans. No app is needed to read it.
CardDeck's email signature generator builds a clean signature block with your photo, name, title and a link to your digital business card. Paste it into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail once, and every email you send shares your current details.
CardDeck's employee ID card maker creates branded staff IDs with photo, department, employee number and validity date, plus a QR code that confirms whether the card is active. Import your staff list from Excel to generate every ID at once, then print CR80 cards or issue them to phones.
CardDeck's student ID card maker turns your class list into a branded ID for every student, with crest, class, section, roll number and a verification QR code. Upload an Excel or CSV file, generate the whole batch in minutes, and roll it over each academic year.
CardDeck's event badge maker generates role-based badges from your registration list, each with a QR code for check-in and networking. Make last-minute changes and reprint one badge, not the whole run. After the event, badges keep working as networking cards.
Issue a digital membership card to every member with their tier, member number and expiry date. A scannable code confirms whether the membership is current, and renewals update the same card instead of mailing a new one.
A digital profile page is one public page that every card and QR code points to: your bio, work, links, booking button and contact options, laid out for phones first. Share it with one link or QR code, in bios, signatures and proposals.
Give every employee a branded digital business card from one dashboard. Lock your templates, bulk import staff from a spreadsheet, see which cards get used, and deactivate or reassign a card in one click when someone leaves.
Generate the right code for the scanner in front of you: phone cameras, laser readers or access gates.
CardDeck is a QR code generator for links, WiFi, WhatsApp, contact cards, PDFs and menus. Add your colors and logo, check contrast before you export, and download print-ready SVG or PNG files. Static codes are unlimited and free; upgrade any code to dynamic when you want to edit it later or count scans.
A dynamic QR code generator gives you codes that hold a short link instead of fixed data. Point a printed code somewhere new without reprinting it, schedule changes for campaigns, and see how often each code is scanned.
The CardDeck bulk QR code generator turns a spreadsheet into a set of QR codes, one per row. Upload a CSV or Excel file, map the columns, pick one style for the batch and download a ZIP of PNG or SVG files, or a print-ready PDF sheet.
The CardDeck barcode generator makes Code 128 barcodes for IDs, asset tags, tickets and shipping labels, and EAN-13 and UPC-A barcodes for retail products, with the check digit calculated for you. Download a crisp SVG, or add the barcode to an ID, membership card or badge.
The CardDeck bulk barcode generator creates one barcode per spreadsheet row. Upload a CSV or Excel file, choose Code 128, EAN-13 or UPC-A, preview the whole batch with check digits calculated, and export a ZIP of files or a print-ready PDF sheet.
The tools behind the cards: bulk creation, contacts, design, team control and insight.
CardDeck works as a bulk ID card generator from Excel or CSV. Upload your sheet, map columns to card fields, match photos by filename and generate an ID card, badge, business card, QR code or barcode for every row. Problem rows are flagged before anything is printed or issued.
CardDeck brings business card contact management into the card itself. When people open your card, they can share their details back, and each contact is saved with its source, the card, badge or QR code that brought them in, so your follow-up starts with context instead of a guess.
The CardDeck online business card designer gives you templates, brand colors, typography, logos, photos, layouts and QR placement in one editor, with a live preview on phone and in print. Design once and use the same look for business cards, ID cards, event badges and membership cards. No design software needed.
CardDeck gives you QR code scan tracking and card view analytics in one dashboard: views and scans over time, the channels people use, and which cards, events and printed codes actually perform, for one person or a whole team.
Upload a CSV, map columns to card fields, pick a template, and CardDeck generates a card, QR code and barcode for every row. Rows with problems — a missing photo, a duplicate ID — are flagged before anything is issued.
When someone opens your card they can share their details back with one form. CardDeck stores the contact with where it came from — which card, which event, which QR code — so follow-up starts with context, not a pile of names.
Digital business card software lets you design, publish and share a mobile contact card that people save in one tap. CardDeck extends it with QR code and barcode generators, ID cards, event badges, membership cards, CSV batch generation, contact capture, a team workspace and analytics — all working from the same record for each person.
Good digital business card software does four jobs: it makes a card that looks professional without design skills, it gets that card onto other people's phones in one step, it keeps the card current after you've shared it, and it tells you what happened next. Anything less and you are back to typing details into contacts by hand.
Use this as a checklist when you compare tools:
CardDeck covers all six. The sections below explain how each part works and where its limits are.
The online card designer starts from a template and lets you change colors, typography, logo, photo, layout and QR placement while you watch a live preview. One design can produce several card types, so your business card, employee ID and event badge look like they belong together.
Practical details:
For teams, an admin locks the design and opens only the fields members should edit — usually name, title, phone and photo. Everyone gets a card that matches, no matter who created it.
CardDeck makes six card types from the same editor. Each one reads from a person's record, so details stay identical across formats.
Printed IDs export at the standard CR80 size (85.6 × 54 mm) in portrait or landscape as a print-ready PDF with bleed. Which card types you can issue depends on your plan: personal IDs on Pro, employee IDs on Team, and student IDs, event badges and membership cards on Business.
QR codes are read by phone cameras and can hold a link, contact or WiFi login; barcodes are read by laser and handheld scanners and usually hold a short number. CardDeck generates both because many organizations need both — a QR code for people and a barcode for the reader at the gate or till.
The QR code generator makes codes for links, cards, profiles, WiFi, text and contact details, styled with your brand color and an optional center logo, and exported as SVG or PNG. Codes can be static (data stored in the pattern, unlimited on every plan) or dynamic (a short link you can re-target, with scan counts). QR codes are defined by the ISO/IEC 18004 standard and were invented by Denso Wave in 1994; any modern phone camera reads them.
The barcode generator supports Code 128 — which encodes all 128 ASCII characters, so it suits employee numbers, asset tags and tickets — and EAN-13 for retail products, with the check digit calculated for you. Barcodes download as crisp SVG and can be added to any ID, badge or member card. EAN-13 numbers for products sold in shops should come from GS1; for internal IDs, use Code 128.
The batch generator turns a spreadsheet into a card, QR code and barcode for every row. It is the feature that makes CardDeck practical for HR teams, schools and event organizers.
Keep IDs unique: when you re-import an updated sheet, CardDeck uses the ID column to update existing cards instead of creating duplicates. Rows per job depend on your plan — 25 on Free, 500 on Pro, 2,000 on Team and 25,000 on Business.
When someone opens your card, they can share their details back through a short exchange form. CardDeck stores each contact with its source — which card, badge, QR code or email signature brought them in — so you know where every lead came from.
From the contact list you can tag contacts, add notes and export them as CSV or vCard. Team and Business plans add CRM export and a shared view for admins. The form records consent with a timestamp, and contacts can be deleted on request. The full workflow is on the business card contact management page.
Contact limits by plan: 50 on Free, 1,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Team and unlimited on Business.
A team workspace lets admins invite members or import them in bulk, assign card types, lock brand templates and manage every card from one dashboard. Members edit only the fields the admin opens.
Business adds multiple brands and workspaces, SSO, a custom domain and API access for larger organizations.
Card and QR code analytics show how often cards are opened and codes are scanned over time, and which channels people use — QR scan, link, email signature or NFC tap. Per-card and per-team views help you see which events, flyers or reps generate attention.
Analytics start on Pro (basic, with CSV export). Team adds team analytics and an admin dashboard; Business adds advanced analytics and export. Scan counts come from dynamic QR codes, because a static code never passes through CardDeck when it is scanned.
Most digital business card apps focus on the personal card and team management. CardDeck covers those and adds ID cards, event badges, membership cards, barcodes and spreadsheet batch generation in the same account. If you only need a personal card, any good tool will do; if you also issue IDs or badges, one platform saves you from running separate vendors.
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No. Cards open in any modern phone browser, and saving the contact uses the standard vCard format that iPhone and Android contacts apps understand. Neither you nor the person you share with needs to install anything.
Yes. You can set brand colors and typography in the designer and save them to your workspace brand kit. Every template in the workspace can then reuse them, so cards, IDs and badges stay consistent.
QR codes and barcodes download as SVG or PNG; SVG is best for print because it scales without losing sharpness. Batch jobs export a print-ready PDF or individual files, and contacts export as CSV or vCard.
Yes. Add a Code 128 barcode with the employee number to the ID template so existing access-control or library scanners can read it. You can keep the QR verification code on the same card for phone-based checks.
Yes. Upload an XLSX file directly or save your sheet as CSV (UTF-8). Remove merged cells and empty rows first, and keep the first row as column headers so mapping is quick.
Yes, where the phone supports it. Write your card link to an NFC card, tag or sticker and compatible phones open your card with a tap. Keep a QR code alongside it, because not every phone reads NFC tags the same way.
Analytics show how many times a dynamic code was scanned and when, not the identity of each person. To know who someone is, they need to share their details through the contact exchange form on your card.
API access is included on the Business plan, along with SSO and a custom domain. Talk to the CardDeck team about your integration needs before you choose a plan.
The Free plan includes one digital card, two dynamic QR codes, unlimited static QR codes and barcodes, batch jobs up to 25 rows and 50 captured contacts. Team and Business features such as locked templates and ID cards require a paid plan.
Every plan includes the designer, QR codes and a shareable profile.