Digital business card in Canada, free.
Cardr is a free digital business card for Canada: a real Wallet pass on your phone, and a page any phone opens with no app.
Free forever · No card details · About a minute
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Cardr is a free digital business card that works across Canada, from a real pass in your phone’s Wallet. On an iPhone it lives in Apple Wallet, on Android in Google Wallet. The person you meet scans its QR code with their camera, saves you to their contacts and can send their own details back, with no app on either phone.
- Free in Canada
- The whole card, with no card details taken and no cap on scans or contacts.
- They send their details
- In the two-way exchange the other person gives you their own address, which is the case Canada’s anti-spam law has words for (below).
- English or French
- Your card shows the words you type, so it can be in either language, or both.
What a card has to do in Canada.
What people in Canada need a digital business card to do, row by row. Where the answer is not a plain yes, the table says so.
| What it has to do | Cardr |
|---|---|
| Open on any phone, with no app | Yes. Their camera opens your page, on an iPhone or an Android phone |
| Live in Apple Wallet on an iPhone | Yes, on the free plan |
| Live in Google Wallet on Android | Yes. Google Wallet on Android 9 or later, free |
| Save a +1 number correctly | Yes. Numbers are entered with their dialling code, so a Canadian mobile dials from anywhere |
| Say it in French | On your card, yes. It shows the words you type, in French or English |
| Bring their details back to you | Yes. The two-way exchange, on the free plan |
| Charge in Canadian dollars | No. Cardr charges in US dollars, not Canadian dollars; the card itself is free |
Free in Canada. About a minute.
Take your name at cardr.co and put a real Wallet pass on your phone. No card details, and nothing for the people you meet to install.
Which wallet it lives in.
Apple Wallet is part of iOS, so every iPhone in Canada has it, and a Cardr pass goes into it free. Google lists Canada among the countries where it offers Google Wallet (Google’s country list, read 12 October 2026).
So Cardr works on both. On an Android phone running Android 9 or later, with Google Play services (Google’s requirements), your card goes into Google Wallet; on an iPhone, into Apple Wallet. Both passes are free, carry the same QR code and update when you edit your card. See the Google Wallet business card for how it looks.
The person you meet is not affected either way. On an iPhone or an Android phone, their camera opens your page from the QR code, they save you to their contacts, and they can send their own details back. They install nothing and never receive a pass.
What you pay from Canada.
The card is free in Canada, as it is everywhere: the Wallet pass, your page, the QR code, the two-way exchange and every contact it brings back, with notes, tags and export. No card details are taken to start.
Pro is the follow-up done for you: drafts written from your notes in your voice, a reminder on day 3 after you meet someone, and every pass design. Cardr charges people in Canada in US dollars, not Canadian dollars: Pro is $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly ($144 a year). Visitors from Canada see that price on our pricing page, and it is what checkout charges. Your card issuer may add a fee for a payment in a foreign currency.
Their details, and PIPEDA.
When someone sends you their details through your card, they type them and send them to you, on purpose. That is consent in its plainest form, and it is the starting point of Canadian privacy law.
PIPEDA, the federal law, applies to private-sector organisations across Canada that collect, use or disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec have their own private-sector privacy laws, which have been deemed substantially similar. Consent is one of PIPEDA’s ten fair information principles (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: PIPEDA in brief).
Someone who gives you their details to stay in touch has told you why they gave them. Using them for that, a follow-up about what you discussed, is the easy case. Adding them to a mailing list for something else, or passing them on, is not what they gave them for.
What Cardr itself stores, and how to have it deleted, is on our privacy page. Contacts export to CSV or vCard on the free plan.
The follow-up email, and CASL.
Cardr drafts follow-ups, so Canada’s anti-spam legislation is the law this page most needs to get right.
CASL covers commercial electronic messages: a follow-up that encourages someone to buy from you is one. Under section 6 of the Act, it may be sent only with the recipient’s consent, express or implied, and it must identify who sent it, give a way to contact them and include an unsubscribe mechanism (the Act, on the Justice Laws website).
Implied consent has a case written for exactly this moment. Under section 10(9)(c), consent is implied when the person gave you the address themselves, without saying they did not want commercial messages there, and your message is relevant to their business, role, functions or duties. Someone who sends you their work email through your card at a conference has done the first part. Whether your message is relevant to their role is yours to judge.
Cardr drafts the follow-up from your note; you send it from your own mail app, so the sign-off, your contact details and an unsubscribe line are yours to include. The Government of Canada’s own guide is at Canada’s anti-spam legislation.
A plain summary of public guidance, to help you think it through. It is not legal advice. Sources, read 12 October 2026: OPC, PIPEDA in brief; S.C. 2010, c. 23 (CASL), sections 6 and 10; Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, CASL.
Not the B.C. Digital Business Card.
In British Columbia, “Digital Business Card” also names something else: a verifiable credential the Province issues to a person who filed a sole proprietorship registration, held in a digital wallet such as the BC Wallet app, to show that registration to the people who need to check it (Province of British Columbia: Digital Business Card terms of use, read 12 October 2026).
It is a government credential, not a card for meeting people, and Cardr is not connected with it. If you are a sole proprietor in B.C., the two sit side by side: the Province’s credential proves your registration, and a Cardr card is what you show across the table.
Digital business cards in Canada, asked.
Does Cardr work in Canada?
Yes, in every province and territory. Your card lives in Apple Wallet on an iPhone or Google Wallet on an Android phone, and your page at cardr.co/yourname opens on any phone with a browser.
What is the best digital business card in Canada?
It depends on what you need after the meeting. If every contact must flow into a CRM, a product that connects to one is the better buy; Cardr connects to none. If you want the complete card free and the follow-up done for you, that is what Cardr is for. Our round-up compares each product with its published price and the date we read it, and the alternatives page says what each leads with.
Is an electronic business card the same thing?
Yes. An electronic, digital or virtual business card all mean your contact details in a form a phone can open and save, instead of printed on paper. Cardr’s is a signed Wallet pass with a QR code, and a page at cardr.co/yourname.
What does it cost in Canadian dollars?
Cardr does not charge in Canadian dollars. The card is free. Pro is $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly, charged in US dollars; your card issuer may add a fee for a foreign-currency payment.
Can I email someone after they exchange details with me?
Often, yes. Under CASL, consent to a commercial message is implied when the person gave you their address themselves without saying they did not want such messages, and the message is relevant to their work (section 10(9)(c)). Every commercial message must still identify you, say how to reach you and let them unsubscribe. A plain summary of public guidance, to help you think it through. It is not legal advice.
Can my card be in French?
Yes. Your card shows the words you type, so your title, company and links can be in French, English or both. The QR code and the Wallet pass work the same either way.
Is it the same as the B.C. Digital Business Card?
No. That is a credential the Province of British Columbia issues to registered sole proprietors, held in a digital wallet such as BC Wallet. Cardr is a business card for meeting people, and is not connected with it.
A card that works coast to coast.
About a minute to make, no card details, and nothing for the people you meet in Canada to install.