Almost every pupil you get was recommended by somebody, in a conversation you were not part of. Cardr gives your pupils and their parents something they can forward in one tap, and takes the enquiry back to you as a contact rather than a missed call.
Driving instruction is a referral business run by somebody who cannot answer the phone. You are in a car with a learner for most of the working day, so enquiries arrive as missed calls that go to a competitor by the evening. And the recommendation that generates them happens between two parents at a school gate, with you nowhere nearby. Cardr gives them a card that forwards in one tap, captures the enquiry as a contact instead of a missed call, and drafts the reply between lessons.
Ten seconds at the end of a lesson, engine running, next pupil in twelve minutes. Sometimes you are not even there.
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Ten seconds at the end of a lesson, engine running, next pupil in twelve minutes. Sometimes you are not even there.
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.
Two handovers matter and neither is a networking event. The first is the parent who comes out to the car, wants to know about their younger one, and has about ten seconds before you have to be somewhere else. The second, and the bigger one, is a conversation between two parents that you are not present for at all.
The second is the one to design for. Whatever you hand a pupil has to be forwardable: something they can send to somebody else in one tap, that arrives complete and looks like you. A link to a card does that. A printed card in a glovebox does not, and nor does a phone number written on the back of a receipt.
Then there is the phone. You cannot take a call mid-lesson, and a learner driver enquiry that reaches voicemail usually goes to whoever answers first. An enquiry that arrives as a contact with a name and a note attached is still there at half six, which is the first moment you could ever have replied anyway.
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They send the link, or show the QR code from their own phone. It arrives as your full card rather than as a number with no context, which is the difference between a recommendation that gets acted on and one that gets lost. This is the main way driving instructors get work, so it is worth setting the card up as though forwarding is its primary job.
It is the reason the exchange is worth more to you than the card is. An enquiry that comes through your card arrives as a contact with a name attached and waits for you, rather than as a missed call that has already rung somebody else by the time you park.
Put a link to them rather than the numbers themselves, then you can change them without touching the card. Either works. Prices printed on the card are also fine, because unlike a printed card you can correct them and everyone holding it gets the correction.
No, and a QR code is better in a car anyway: it can be a sticker on the window or the dashboard that anybody can scan from outside without you handing anything over. Cardr sells no hardware. If you already have an NFC card, point it at your cardr.co address and it will work.
Free forever for the card, the Apple Wallet pass and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken. Pro is £12 a month, or £9 billed annually, for the contact list, the drafted replies and the reminders. Sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.