Digital Business Cards

What Are Digital Business Cards?

Digital business cards are a modern alternative to traditional paper business cards. Instead of handing out a physical card, you share a unique link or QR code that opens a professionally styled page with all your contact details.

• Unique link and QR code — each card gets its own URL (e.g. ezl.me/card/john) and a scannable QR code
• Save as a contact — visitors can tap "Save Contact" to download a .vcf vCard file directly into their phone's contacts
• Always up to date — update your details anytime and everyone with the link sees the latest version
• Track engagement — view counts let you see how many times your card has been visited

Creating Your First Card

Setting up a digital business card takes just a few minutes. Follow these steps to create and publish your first card.

Managing Your Cards

All your digital business cards are displayed in a grid layout on the Digital Cards page, making it easy to manage multiple cards at once.

Card Overview

Each card in the grid shows a summary including the photo or initials, the name on the card, and three stat counters:

• Views — how many times the public card page has been opened
• Downloads — how many times someone saved the contact (.vcf file)
• Shares — how many times you hit one of the share-to buttons from the Share modal

Below the stats there's a 📊 Show share breakdown toggle. Click it to expand a per-channel list (WhatsApp, Email, Copy link, etc.) so you can see which channels you use most.

Available Actions

Each card row has four buttons across the bottom:

• View — opens a panel with the card link, vCard download, QR code preview and download, and the phone wallpaper preview + download. This is the "see and download" surface — nothing here changes the card.
• Edit — opens the full card editor: contact details, photo, theme colour, QR settings, and the wallpaper customization (background image, layout, text toggles, position drag).
• Share — opens the share-to picker so you can send your card via WhatsApp, Email, SMS, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, the native OS share sheet (on mobile and Safari/Edge desktop), or copy the link. Every click is logged so you can see your share breakdown.
• Delete — permanently removes the card. The URL and QR code stop working immediately.

Sharing Your Card

Click Share on any card to open the share-to picker.

The Share Modal

The Share modal is purpose-built for sending your card to someone — it's not where you download things (use View for that) and not where you customize the card (use Edit). It looks roughly like:

• 📤 Share via your device — on mobile (and Safari/Edge desktop) this opens the operating system's native share sheet, the same one any installed app uses (Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, AirDrop, Telegram, anything you have). This button is hidden on browsers that don't support it (e.g. Firefox desktop).
• 💬 WhatsApp — opens WhatsApp (app on mobile, WhatsApp Web on desktop) with a pre-filled message containing your card link.
• 📧 Email — opens your default email client with subject and body pre-filled.
• 📱 SMS — opens your phone's messaging app (mobile only).
• 💼 LinkedIn — opens LinkedIn's share dialog in a new tab.
• 𝕏 X / Twitter — opens an X compose window with the card link and text.
• 📘 Facebook — opens Facebook's share dialog.
• 📋 Copy link — puts your card URL on the clipboard. Confirms with "Copied!" feedback.

The Card Link

Every card has a unique URL in the format ezl.me/card/shortCode (e.g. ezl.me/card/john). If you have a custom domain, that's used instead. The link from any share channel above points here.

The QR Code

Each card comes with its own QR code. When someone scans it with their phone camera, it opens your card page instantly. You can download the QR by clicking View on a card → the QR section has tabs for Card Page QR (opens your card in a browser) and Save Contact QR (saves the contact directly to the scanner's phone).

Use the downloaded QR in:

• Email signatures
• Presentations and slide decks
• Printed materials (brochures, flyers, posters)
• Conference badges or name tags
• Your website or social media profiles

Share Tracking

Every share button click is logged so you can see which channels work best. The Shares stat on each card row shows the total, and clicking 📊 Show share breakdown below the stats expands a per-channel list. For native share, the click is only counted if the user actually completes the share — cancellations don't count.

What Visitors See

When someone visits your card page, they see a professionally styled page that includes:

• Your photo and contact details (name, title, company, email, phone, website, address)
• Save Contact button — downloads a .vcf vCard file that adds you directly to their phone's contacts
• Your social media links with icons for each platform

Phone Wallpaper

Each card can be exported as a phone wallpaper — an image you (or your team) can set as a lock-screen background. Anyone who points their phone camera at your lock screen scans the QR and lands on your card.

The wallpaper has two halves — customizing happens in Edit, downloading happens in View:

• Customize: from Digital Cards, click Edit on a card and scroll to the Phone Wallpaper section. You'll see a live preview that updates as you tweak the settings, and you can drag the QR to reposition it. Everything you change here is auto-saved per card — no separate Save step for the wallpaper layout.
• Download: click View on a card. You'll see a static preview and a Download Wallpaper button. View also has the card link, vCard, and QR code download.

Choose what the QR opens

Set the Wallpaper QR type dropdown in the Edit modal:

• Card Page QR — the scanner opens your card in their browser. Best when you want them to see your branding and tap Save Contact to add you to their phone.
• Save Contact QR — the scanner saves your contact details directly to their phone's address book, skipping the card page entirely. Best for quick contact swaps at events.

Custom background image

By default the wallpaper uses your card's brand colour with your name, business name, and "Scan to view card" above the QR. You can replace the background with any image of your own — a photo, a branded graphic, a designed lock-screen, anything.

• Tick "Use my own background image" and pick a file. JPG, PNG and WebP are supported, up to 4 MB. Portrait orientation around 1170×2532 works best (matches iPhone lock-screen dimensions).
• The image is fitted to fill the canvas; anything outside the 1170×2532 frame is cropped.
• You can replace it any time by clicking "Choose image…" again, or remove it with the Remove button (the wallpaper reverts to the brand template).
• With a custom background, the text moves inside the rounded tile (alongside the QR) so it sits on the readable tile colour instead of being lost against the photo. Text colour automatically adapts to light or dark tiles.

Choose which text to show

Three checkboxes in the Edit modal control which lines appear:

• Show name — your name (bold, large)
• Show business name — your company (lighter, smaller)
• Show "Scan to view" — the helper line under the QR ("Scan to view card" or "Scan to save contact" depending on the wallpaper QR type)

The tile grows to fit only the rows you've enabled, so unchecking everything gives you just the QR on the background. Your toggle choices are saved per card and survive page refreshes.

Drag the QR to reposition it

The QR sits inside a rounded tile, which keeps it scannable on any background. To move it: click (or touch) the QR on the preview in the Edit modal and drag. The tile snaps wherever you let go and is clamped so it always stays fully inside the canvas. Tick Snap to grid to have it snap to common alignment points (centre, thirds, quarters).

Resize the QR

Use the QR size slider to scale the QR from 18% to 60% of the canvas width. The minimum of 18% is enforced because anything smaller becomes unreliable to scan from a normal viewing distance.

Text auto-fits to QR width

Your name, business name, and the "Scan to..." line are automatically shrunk if they would be wider than the QR code. Long names won't bleed off the side of the card — they get sized down to fit the QR's width (down to 50% of the ideal size, then clip).

Download and apply

From the View modal, click Download Wallpaper. You'll get a 1170×2532 PNG ready to set as a lock screen on iOS or Android — or share with someone else so they can use it.

Tips and Best Practices

Get the most out of your digital business cards with these recommendations: