Free vCard QR Code Generator

How to make a contact QR code

Type your name and a number, add whatever else belongs on the card, and the code appears as you type. Scanning it offers to save you as a contact — name, number, email and the rest already filled in, so nobody types your number wrong.

Download the card to print, or Code only if you are putting the code on a sticker or a badge and the design around it is yours.

Why does it say a size in millimetres?

Because a QR code has a smallest size it can be printed at, and it depends on how much is in it. Each square in the code — a module — has to stay about half a millimetre across for a phone to read it off paper. More details means more modules, and more modules means a bigger print.

The figure on the page is the whole code at that module size, including the white border, which is part of the code rather than margin. Print it at that size or larger. Print it smaller and it will scan on your desk, in good light, on your own phone — and fail for a customer standing at the counter.

Mine is too big for a sticker. What do I take out?

The page tells you which field is the longest and how small the code would be without it. The address and the note are almost always the two, because they are the only free text on the card.

A card with a name, a mobile number and an email is small enough for a 25 mm sticker. Everything you add after that is a trade against the size you can print.

Which phones can save it?

This tool writes vCard 3.0, which is the version the widest range of phone cameras offers to save as a contact. Newer formats are tidier and older ones are smaller, and both are read by fewer phones — so there is no choice to make here and the page does not offer one.

Does it expire? Can you see who scanned it?

No, and no. The code contains your details directly: there is no link, no redirect and no PayMQR address inside it, so nothing is contacted when somebody scans it and there is nothing to expire. It keeps working until your details change, and then you make a new one.

Is my number sent to PayMQR?

No. The code is built by your own browser, on this page, and nothing you type is sent anywhere — there is no form to submit and no address for it to go to. Close the tab and nothing is kept.

Remember what the code itself is, though: anyone who scans it has your details. That is what a contact card is for, and it is worth thinking about before one goes in a window rather than in a wallet.

Printing it

Leave the white border alone — it is part of the code. Matte paper or lamination beats glossy, which throws the flash back at the camera. If you are printing at the smallest size the page quotes, print one and scan it before you order a hundred.