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Digital Business Cards

An NFC-based digital business card platform — tap a phone to instantly share contact details and social profiles, with a built-in flow for ordering the physical NFC card itself.

PROJECTDigital Business Cards Solution
INDUSTRYProfessional networking / NFC hardware
STACKMobile · NFC
NFC
Tap-to-share technology, linked to physical cards
4
Linked categories — social, professional, business & payments
Live
Full app-to-physical-card flow in production
Mobile
iOS & Android — one tap to share everything

Paper business cards get lost. Sharing contact info shouldn't be slower than a handshake.

Traditional business cards are easy to lose, expensive to reprint when details change, and don't carry anything beyond a name and number. NFC-based digital cards solve the sharing problem instantly — tap two phones together and the recipient's contact, social, and payment details land directly on the other person's device — but only if the underlying app, activation flow, and card fulfillment all work smoothly together.

This platform was built to handle all three: the app that manages your card's content, the NFC activation flow that links a physical card to your account, and the ordering system for getting that physical card made and shipped.

This platform was built for individual professionals and small teams who want a modern, contactless alternative to paper cards — with the ordering, activation, and sharing experience handled entirely inside a single mobile app.

From app to physical card, in one flow.

01 · CARD MANAGEMENT

Professional & personal cards

Users can hold multiple cards — professional and personal — each with its own QR code and activation state, switchable from a single account.

02 · NFC ACTIVATION

Tap-to-activate NFC flow

A dedicated "place your product behind your phone" activation screen that reads the physical card's NFC chip and links it to the user's digital profile.

03 · ACCOUNT LINKING

Social, professional & payment accounts

Users link accounts across four categories — social media, professional, business, and payments — each shareable instantly through the NFC tap.

04 · CARD ORDERING

Physical card checkout

An in-app order flow for the physical NFC card itself, with product preview, shipping details, and Cash-on-Delivery or PayPal checkout.

A few calls that shaped how this was built.

01

The physical card and the app are one product, not two

Rather than treating card fulfillment as a separate e-commerce afterthought, ordering the physical NFC card lives inside the same app as the card management itself — so a user goes from "I need a card" to "my card is activated" without leaving the product.

02

Accounts grouped by category, not a flat list

Linked accounts are organized into Social Media, Professional, Business, and Payments groups rather than one long list — making it easier for a user to scan their card and quickly add the right kind of link, and for a recipient to find what they're looking for.

03

Ordering the physical card lives inside the app

Rather than directing users to an external website to order their physical NFC card, the entire ordering flow — product preview, shipping details, and checkout — is built into the same app they use to manage their card content. The experience goes from "I need a card" to "card on the way" without switching contexts.

A look at the app.

// onboarding & card setupDigital Cards onboarding
// NFC activationDigital Cards NFC activation
// account linking & orderDigital Cards account linking

One product, from app to mailbox.

The platform covers the full lifecycle — managing a digital card, activating a physical one over NFC, and ordering new cards — as a single connected experience.

Live
Full app-to-physical-card flow shipped and in production

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