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How to make a digital business card you can update after printing
A paper business card is accurate for exactly as long as nothing about you changes. New title, new number, new company — the box of five hundred in your desk drawer records none of it.
A hosted card puts the details behind a QR code instead of in the ink. The code opens a card page you can edit from the dashboard, and whoever scans it saves your contact with one tap.
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Create the card from the Business Card tab
In the dashboard, go to Links, choose Create Link and pick the Business Card tab. Fill in your name, job title, organization, email, phone, website and postal address, add a note if you want one, and set an avatar image URL and a theme color so the page looks like yours. Extra links — a booking page, a portfolio, a LinkedIn profile — go on as label-and-URL pairs.
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Choose the back-half people will see
The card lives at a short link like rrte.link/yourname, or a custom back-half of your choosing. Pick something you are happy to say out loud, because it is the one setting you cannot change later — the back-half is fixed once the link is created.
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Style the QR code and export it print-ready
Generate the code for the short link in the dashboard: set the colors, drop your logo in the middle, and export at 1024px as PNG, PDF or WebP. That resolution holds up on a business card and on a conference banner alike.
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Print it wherever your name goes
The back of the paper card is the obvious place, but the same code works on an email signature, a slide deck or a stand at a trade show. Every copy opens the same hosted page, so there is nothing to keep in sync. On a scan, the page shows your contact rows and a Save Contact button that downloads a standard vCard — iPhone and Android both open it natively, no app required.
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Update the details whenever they change
Edit the card from the dashboard and every printed code shows the change on the next scan. New role, new number, new company name — the five hundred cards in the drawer are all current again without a reprint.
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See where the card is working
Every scan is recorded with country, city, device type, operating system, browser and time, and shows up in the dashboard like any other dynamic link. Useful after a conference for the blunt question of whether anyone actually scanned.
What this will not do
- The short link back-half is fixed at creation. The card contents can change forever; the address it lives at cannot.
- On Pro, hosted cards are tied to seats — five cards, one per seat. Enterprise removes the cap.
- There are no NFC tags or Apple and Google Wallet passes. This is a QR code that opens a page, which is the whole trick — it needs nothing but a camera.
- The free vCard generator encodes your details into the pattern itself. It costs nothing and needs no account, but it cannot be edited after printing — that is the trade in each direction.
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