Virtual business cards

What are virtual business cards?

A virtual business card is a hosted digital contact page powered by a Nimriz short link and QR code. Instead of pointing your short link to an external website, you create a polished card page directly inside Nimriz. Recipients can view it on any device, tap to call or email, save your contact details to their phone, or add the card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.

Because the card is tied to a standard Nimriz short link, your QR code and branded URL stay the same even when you update your contact details. Print a QR on a business card, a conference badge, or a poster, then change your phone number, title, or company later without reprinting anything.

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Plan availability

Base virtual business cards start on Plus. Premium appearance controls start on Growth.

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Creating a card

Card creation is a two-step flow with a live phone preview that updates as you build.

1. Go to Cards in the sidebar, then open Create card.

2. Step 1: pick a starting point. Choose a starter template (Professional, Founder, Sales, Consultant, Event, or Team Member) to prefill a theme, sample fields, and a suggested action, or choose Start from blank. Everything is editable in the next step.

   

3. Step 2: build the card across five focused steps:

   • Identity: name (required), title, company, headline, profile photo, and company logo.
   • Contact: phone, email, website, and address, with an optional map link.
   • Action: a primary call-to-action button and up to six social links (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, GitHub).
   • Appearance: layout treatment, card style, and Light or Dark mode.
   • Link & QR: domain, optional custom slug, and QR preset.

4. A card strength meter next to the preview suggests what to add next.

5. Click Create card.

After creation, a success modal shows the short URL (auto-copied to clipboard), a QR code you can download immediately in PNG or SVG format, and wallet actions when Apple Wallet or Google Wallet is configured.

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Editing a card

Go to Cards in the sidebar, then click the Edit card icon on any card. All fields can be updated at any time. Changes take effect immediately on the public card page, with no need to regenerate or reprint your QR code.

The edit page includes a live preview panel on the right that updates as you type.

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The public card page

When someone visits your short link or scans the QR code, they are redirected to your hosted card page. This page is:

• Standalone: no Nimriz navigation or marketing chrome. It looks like a polished digital card, not a page inside a website.
• Mobile-first: designed for the phone-scan use case. Tappable contact actions, one-tap save, wallet actions, and social icons with brand colors.
• No login required: recipients do not need a Nimriz account.

The card page includes:

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Card style presets

Instead of manually picking individual colors, Nimriz provides curated color presets that guarantee a cohesive, professional look. Each preset defines a coordinated accent, background, and text color.

Available presets

New cards default to Warm Ink in Light mode.

Custom colors

Select Custom at the end of the preset row to open individual pickers for accent, background, and text color. You can pick from swatches or enter an exact hex value.

If you select a preset and then manually change one of the colors, the selection automatically switches to Custom.

Custom colors are available on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise.

Card mode (Light / Dark)

Each preset has a light and dark variant. Toggling between Light and Dark applies the corresponding variant of your selected preset. This is creator-controlled: the recipient always sees the mode you chose, regardless of their own device settings.

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Templates

Templates (shown as Layout treatment in the builder) control the visual layout and emphasis of your card, independent of colors. Signature, Editorial, and Spotlight are available on all card plans. Minimal and Bold are premium appearance options on Growth and above:

Every treatment reads the same card fields, so you can switch between them at any time without losing content. Any template works with the card styles available on your plan. Custom colors are part of premium appearance.

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Card pages gallery

Open Card pages from the switch at the top of the Cards create view to see all five treatments side by side, rendered from a single sample. Use the style and Light/Dark controls to preview how each treatment looks with a given card style before you build. It is a preview surface only and does not change any saved card.

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QR code and short link

Every virtual business card is backed by a standard Nimriz short link. This means:

• The QR code encodes your branded short URL (e.g., https://rix.to/jane).
• QR scans are tracked separately from direct link clicks using Nimriz's touch_type classification (qr_scan vs short_link_click).
• You can customize the QR design using your workspace's QR presets, the same presets you use for any other short link.
• Updating your card content never changes the short link or QR. Print once, edit forever.

Downloading the QR

From the card create success modal, the Share card action, or the card edit page, you can:

• Share the short URL directly to common apps.
• Download the QR as PNG or SVG.
• Open Customize QR to adjust colors, shapes, logos, and presets.
• Copy the short URL to share directly via text, email, or messaging apps.

Choosing a QR preset during card creation

The Link & QR step includes a QR preset selector. Choose No preset for the plain default code, or pick any of your workspace's saved QR presets, shown with live scannable thumbnails. To design a new code with its own colors, pattern, and frame, open Design a custom QR, which takes you to your QR presets library. The selected preset is applied to the underlying short link, so the QR is ready to download from the success modal and carries through to printed assets.

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Profile image and company logo

You can add a profile photo for the person and a company logo for the organization. These are separate assets:

1. Upload: Click the upload button and select a PNG, JPEG, or WebP image. The image is stored securely and served from Nimriz infrastructure.
2. Import URL: Switch to URL mode and import a direct image URL. Nimriz checks the file before saving it.
3. Use website icon: For company logos, Nimriz can fetch the favicon from your website and copy it into card storage when it passes image checks.

The profile image appears as the person avatar. The company logo appears beside the company name and is used for Wallet pass branding when available. If no profile image is provided, the card displays your initials in a colored badge.

Image requirements are shown in the ? tooltip beside each field. Both profile photos and company logos support PNG, JPEG, and WebP up to 2 MB and 2048 x 2048 px. Profile photos must be at least 160 x 160 px, with 320 x 320 px or larger recommended. Company logos must be at least 128 x 128 px, with 256 x 256 px or larger recommended.

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Save Contact (.vcf)

When a recipient taps Save contact, their device downloads a vCard file containing:

• Full name, first name, last name
• Company and title
• Phone number
• Email address
• Website URL
• Address
• Social profile links (as X-SOCIALPROFILE fields)
• Headline (as a note)

The vCard uses version 3.0 for maximum compatibility across iOS, Android, Google Contacts, and Outlook.

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Apple Wallet and Google Wallet

When wallet support is configured, recipients can tap Add to Apple Wallet or Add to Google Wallet on the public card page. Creators can also use those actions from the card creation success modal or the card edit page.

Wallet passes use the same hosted card as their source of truth:

• The pass shows compact identity details from the card.
• The pass uses the company logo when one is available.
• The pass barcode opens the existing Nimriz short link with QR-origin tracking and a bounded Apple or Google source marker.
• QR scans from the pass stay connected to the same link and card analytics.
• Wallet barcodes use Apple and Google native QR rendering for compatibility. Custom Nimriz QR styles apply to downloaded and printed QR assets.
• The Nimriz-hosted public card remains canonical.

If you edit a card after someone has added it to a wallet, the public card updates immediately. Installed wallet passes can be re-added to pick up the latest saved pass details unless automatic wallet updates are enabled for your team. The .vcf Save contact action remains the best universal fallback for contacts apps, desktop users, and devices that do not support Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.

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Analytics

Virtual business cards produce two layers of analytics:

Redirect-layer analytics

When someone clicks your short link or scans the QR, the Nimriz edge records a standard click event. This event includes:

• touch_type: either qr_scan or short_link_click
• Wallet provider source for Wallet QR scans when available
• Country, region, city (IP-based, privacy-aware)
• Device category, browser, OS
• Referrer

These events appear in your standard link analytics dashboard.

Card engagement analytics

After the recipient lands on your card page, additional events are tracked:

These events are written through a privacy-aware analytics pipeline. IP addresses are hashed with a daily-rotating salt before storage when standard privacy analytics are enabled.

CTA tap tracking

Taps on individual contact actions (call, email, website, address, social), wallet actions, and the primary action button are tracked as card engagement events. The card detail Engagement tab shows a scan-to-save funnel and CTA engagement breakdown. Analytics›Pages includes card views, saves, QR funnel performance, and top pages and cards.

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Social links

You can add up to six social profile links. Each platform gets a brand-colored icon button on the public card:

Social links are also included in the downloaded .vcf file as X-SOCIALPROFILE fields.

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Sharing your card

There are several ways to share your virtual business card:

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Managing cards

Cards list

The Cards section in the sidebar shows all your workspace's cards. Each row displays:

• Profile image or initial
• Full name and company
• Short URL
• Quick actions: Preview card, Edit card, Share card (short URL, preview, and QR tools), Delete card

Deleting a card

Click the delete icon on a card in the list. This removes the card record. The underlying short link remains in your Links list and can be repurposed or deleted separately.

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Related guides

• Custom QR codes
• Link creation and slugs
• Analytics overview
• Analytics definitions
• Custom domain setup