A market stall at two in the afternoon is not a place you can take a phone out. Cardr puts a QR code on the counter that hands over your whole card and takes their enquiry back, without you touching anything or breaking the queue.
Catering has a handover problem that is physical before it is anything else. Somebody asks whether you do weddings while you are serving, your hands are not clean, there is a queue behind them, and the enquiry is worth more than everything else you will take that hour. A QR code on the counter answers it with no hands and no pause: they get your card, you get their details, and the queue keeps moving.
Fifteen seconds, no clean hands, and the person asking about a wedding is worth more than the rest of the shift.
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Fifteen seconds, no clean hands, and the person asking about a wedding is worth more than the rest of the shift.
Every constraint above is what decides the format. A card that fails any one of the three does not get used a second time, however good it looks.
The enquiries that matter do not arrive by email. They arrive at the stall, from somebody who has just eaten something and is now wondering whether you could do a hundred and twenty covers in September. That conversation happens in the middle of service.
Everything about that moment argues against picking up a phone. Your hands are not clean, the queue is real, and the till is the only thing that should be getting attention. A printed QR on the counter or the front of the stall removes you from the transaction entirely: they scan it, they have your card, and you carry on serving.
The return leg is what makes it worth doing rather than a nicety. An enquiry that leaves as their name, number and a note about September is a booking you can chase. An enquiry that leaves as somebody saying “I’ll look you up” is nothing at all, and that is what most of them currently are.
Not a mock-up. The artwork below is drawn by the same function that draws the inside of the signed .pkpass file, in the same colours the real pass carries, so this is what Wallet shows.
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The scene changes by trade, but the mechanism does not. See every version of this page.
More contacts than any other environment, and the worst follow-up rate.
Also forPhotographersThe wedding you are shooting is the best-qualified room you will stand in all year.
Also forTradespeopleThe quote you never chased was the job.
PricingFree forever, or £12 a monthWhat each plan includes, and the sixty-day guarantee.
Yes, and it is the way to use this. Your card has a permanent QR that does not expire, so it can go on the counter, the menu board, the side of the van and the top of an invoice. Print it once. If you change your number or your menu link, the code stays the same and the card behind it updates.
No. They point their camera at the code and your card opens. On an iPhone they can add it to Apple Wallet, which is already installed and cannot be deleted. On Android they open the page and save you to their contacts. Nothing gets downloaded and nobody signs up.
The exchange is part of the same scan, so their details come back to you without you doing anything at that moment. You look at them afterwards, when service is over, with the enquiry sitting there as a name rather than as a half-memory of somebody in a green coat.
You can put a link to it, and that is the better way round: allergen information changes with the menu, and a link means the version people see is always current. It is not a substitute for the allergen information you are legally required to display at the point of sale.
The card, the QR code, the Apple Wallet pass and the two-way exchange are free forever, with no card details taken. Pro is £12 a month, or £9 billed annually, for the enquiry list with notes, the drafted messages and the reminders. Sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.