Sales teams
Every prospect leaves the stand with your details saved and your calendar one tap away, and you leave with theirs.
E-Card · Digital Business Card
Your whole profile, shared in one tap
A paper card is a ten-second transaction that usually ends in a bin. A Capstone Tek e-card ends in their address book. Tap their phone, your profile opens, they press save — and your details stay correct forever, because you can change them any time.
- They install nothing
- QR fallback printed on every card
- Metal, PVC, bamboo or recycled
Jordan Reyes
Director of Partnerships
Northline Supply Co.
The short answer
An NFC digital business card is a physical card with a chip inside that opens your online profile on someone else's phone. They hold their phone to your card, a notification appears, and your profile loads in their browser — no app, no account, no typing. One button saves your details straight into their contacts. Because the card stores a link rather than your data, changing your job title or phone number updates every card you have ever handed out.
Why switch
What a paper card cannot do
Paper is not useless. It is just finished the moment it leaves your hand — and most of them never make it into a phone.
| Paper business card | Capstone Tek e-card | |
|---|---|---|
| Gets into their phone | Only if they type it in later | One tap, one button |
| Stays accurate after a job change | No — reprint everything | Yes — edit once, everywhere |
| Carries more than ten lines | No | Links, video, calendar, deck, portfolio |
| Tells you it was used | Never | Taps, saves and lead-form submissions |
| Captures their details too | No | Optional two-way exchange form |
| Runs out | Yes — reorder every few months | No — one card, used thousands of times |
| Works if their phone has no NFC | Yes | Yes — printed QR code and short URL |
01
A profile built to get one thing done
The temptation is to put everything on it. The cards that work put one clear action at the top — call me, book a call, open the quote, see the portfolio — and keep the rest below it. We build your profile around the action that actually matters in your job.
- Photo, name, role, companyRecognisable in a crowded inbox three weeks later.
- Save-to-contacts buttonWrites a proper contact card with your photo and company.
- Booking, payment and file linksCalendar, payment link, price list, portfolio, capability deck.
- Two-way exchangeThey can leave their details with you in the same breath.
02
Roll it out to a team without losing control
One person with an e-card is convenient. Forty people with e-cards is a brand problem unless somebody owns the template. We lock the layout, colours, logo and footer so every profile in your company looks like it came from the same place, and provision the whole team from a spreadsheet.
- Locked brand templateIndividual details change; the design never drifts.
- Bulk provisioningSend us the staff list and we return encoded, named cards.
- Joiners and leaversSwitch a profile off the day someone leaves — the card stops working.
- Team reportingSee which cards are actually being used, by person and by event.
03
Hardware that feels like it cost something
The card is the handshake. We produce in the finishes people notice — brushed stainless with a laser-etched mark, soft-touch black PVC with spot-UV, bamboo, and recycled PET for teams with a sustainability commitment to meet. Phone stickers and lanyard keyrings cover the moments you are not carrying a card.
Brushed metal
Soft-touch PVC
Bamboo
Recycled PET
Phone sticker
Keyring tag
QR on the reverse
Who uses them
Anyone whose next job comes from a conversation
Realtors & brokers
Listings, virtual tours and a booking link travel with the card at every open house.
Consultants & founders
One card, one profile, always current — even when your title changes three times in a year.
Creatives
Portfolio, showreel and rate card behind the tap instead of a URL nobody types.
Recruiters
Live roles on the profile, updated weekly, with an application form built in.
Front-of-house staff
A lanyard tag that hands guests the menu, the booking page or the loyalty signup.
The exchange
Four seconds, start to finish
1
Hold the card to their phone
Near the top of the handset. No pairing, no Bluetooth, no asking them to open anything.
2
They tap the notification
A banner shows your name and the link. One tap opens your profile in their normal browser.
3
They press save
Your name, number, email, company, role and photo go straight into their contacts, correctly spelled.
4
You get the lead
If they complete the exchange form, their details reach your inbox or CRM before you have finished shaking hands.
Profile anatomy
What goes on the profile, in priority order
The most common mistake is putting everything on it. A profile with eighteen links has no primary action and converts worse than one with three. Build it in layers.
LAYER 01
Who you are
A real photograph of your face — not a logo. Name, role, company, and one line on what you actually do if the title does not make it obvious.
LAYER 02
The one action
Pick a single primary action and give it the biggest button: book a call, see the listings, open the portfolio, save my contact. One.
LAYER 03
The supporting cast
Phone, email, website, and the two or three social profiles that genuinely relate to your work. Then stop.
LAYER 04
The useful extras
A payment or deposit link, a price list, a capability deck, a location, a WhatsApp shortcut — whatever your job actually needs.
LAYER 05
The return path
A short exchange form so their details reach you too. Three fields maximum, one of which should be "what were we talking about?".
A five-second test worth running
Show your profile to somebody for five seconds, take it away, and ask them two questions: what do I do, and what should you do next? If they cannot answer both, remove links until they can. We run this test with every client before we sign off a profile.
Events playbook
How to actually use one at a trade show
Three days, four hundred conversations, and a stack of paper cards you cannot attribute to anything. The card only solves half of that — the other half is how you use it.
- Use a per-event linkGive each show its own short URL so every lead is automatically tagged with where you met.
- Ask the context question"What were we talking about?" is worth more than a phone number when you are following up sixty people a fortnight later.
- Practise the gestureKnow where the antenna sits on iPhone and Android. Fumbling makes the technology look unreliable when it is actually you.
- Put a tag on the stand tooA tap point on the counter catches the people who browse while you are mid-conversation with somebody else.
- Follow up the same dayLeads arrive in your inbox live. The message that lands that evening outperforms the one that lands next Tuesday.
Lead capturedTagged · Expo West · Stand 412
Admin & security
The bit nobody thinks about until somebody resigns
A departing employee walks out with twenty of your cards in circulation, each one pointing at a profile carrying your brand. On paper that is unfixable. Here it is a switch.
Deactivate on the daySwitch a profile off and every card already handed out stops resolving to it immediately.
Or redirect insteadPoint a leaver's card at their replacement, or at a team page, so historic contacts still reach somebody.
Locked brand templateColours, logo, layout and footer are fixed centrally. Individuals change their details, not your design.
Bulk provisioningBuild the whole team from one spreadsheet rather than chasing forty people for a form.
Agree who owns the leadsDecide up front whether contacts captured on a company card belong to the person or the company, and write it down.
Standardise the headshotsSame background, same crop, same lighting. It is the single biggest visual difference between a team that looks organised and one that does not.
The waste argument
One card instead of a box every quarter
This is usually framed as an environmental point, and it is one — but the version that actually lands in a budget meeting is simpler. A paper card is a consumable. You buy them, you hand them out, most are discarded, and in three months you buy more. A reusable card is bought once and used for years.
The honest caveat: a PVC or metal card has a higher footprint than a single paper card. The comparison only works because one of them replaces hundreds of the other. If you want the cleanest version, our bamboo and recycled-PET cards are there for exactly that reason — and we will happily tell you if your volumes are too low for the switch to make any real difference.
- Bought once, not quarterlyNo reprint when a number, a title or a logo changes.
- Bamboo and recycled optionsFor teams with a procurement sustainability requirement to satisfy.
- Plastic-free packingCards ship in recyclable card sleeves, not blister packs.
1Card, used for years
0Reprints when details change
2Lower-impact material options
∞Times it can be tapped
"Reprint the cards" is a line item that quietly repeats forever. This one removes it.
Getting live
What it takes to get a whole team going
Digital-only profiles can be live very quickly; printed cards follow once you have approved the proof. Tell us your deadline and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable.
1
Send the list
Names, roles, numbers, emails and headshots in a spreadsheet. We do the rest.
2
Approve the template
One designed profile and one card proof, in your brand. Change it until it is right.
3
Profiles go live
Every profile built from the approved template and tested on both iOS and Android.
4
Cards arrive
Printed, encoded, tested and labelled per person, ready to hand out.
5
Ten-minute briefing
We show the team the gesture, the fallback and how to edit their own details.
Working to a specific date?
Conference next month, new starters in three weeks, a rebrand going live — tell us the date and the quantity and we will confirm in writing whether we can hit it before you commit to anything.
E-card FAQ
Before you order a batch
The practical questions — compatibility, materials, teams and privacy.
Want to hold one first?
We will send a sample card in your chosen material with a demo profile on it, so you can try it on your own phone.
Request a sampleNo. They only need a phone that can read NFC — which covers iPhone XS and newer on iOS 14+, and essentially every mid-range or better Android phone from the last several years. Your card does the work; their phone just opens a web page.
Every card we print carries a QR code on the reverse and a short personal URL. If NFC is off, unavailable or the phone is in a case that blocks it, they scan or type instead and land on exactly the same profile.
Yes — that is the main advantage. The card stores a link, not your data. Change your job title, phone number or profile photo in the dashboard and every card already in circulation shows the new version immediately. No reprinting.
Yes. Teams get a shared template so every profile matches the brand, bulk provisioning from a spreadsheet, and central control — including switching off a profile the day somebody leaves.
We produce PVC, brushed metal, bamboo and recycled-PET cards, plus NFC stickers for the back of a phone and keyrings for staff lanyards. Finishes include matte, gloss, soft-touch and spot UV.
Your profile page collects nothing from a visitor unless they choose to submit the exchange form. When they do, you hold that data as a first-party record with a clear consent line, rather than relying on a third-party network.
Also worth a look
Start here
Tell us what you want a tap to do
One short call is usually enough to scope it. We will come back with a plan, a sample and a fixed price — normally within one business day.