A show produces more contacts than any other environment and converts fewer of them than anyone admits, because the follow-up lands two weeks late. Cardr captures the exchange on the floor and drafts the messages while the show is still on.
The problem with a show is not lead volume, it is that the volume arrives all at once and decays fast. Four hundred conversations over three days, then a fortnight of admin before anybody hears from you, by which point they have spoken to your competitors. Cardr captures each exchange on the floor with nothing for the visitor to install, holds your note against the name, and drafts the follow-ups so they can go out on the Thursday rather than the following month.
The badge scanner is rented, the wifi is oversubscribed, and nobody on the stand can remember anything.
The stand
The badge scanner is rented, the wifi is oversubscribed, and nobody on the stand can remember anything.
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.
Show leads have a specific failure mode. The scanner captures a name and a company and nothing about the conversation, so two weeks later you have a spreadsheet of four hundred identical rows and no way to tell the buyer from the person who wanted a tote bag. Everyone gets the same email and it performs like the same email.
What makes a show lead convert is the sentence somebody said on the stand. Capturing it has to take three seconds, on the phone in your hand, in the middle of a conversation, because there is another visitor waiting.
Show wifi is the other constraint and it is worse than people expect. Halls are steel boxes with several thousand phones in them. Your Wallet pass opens with no signal because it is already on your device, which is not true of anything that has to be fetched.
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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Not today. There is no team account, no shared pool and no admin console, so each person on the stand would have their own account and their own list, exported and merged afterwards. For a large stand that is a real limitation.
Partly, and honestly not entirely. A scanner reads the organiser's badge data, which Cardr has no access to. What Cardr does is capture the visitor's own details, plus your note on the conversation, without renting hardware. Some teams run both.
Your pass opens offline because it lives on your phone. The visitor scanning your QR code needs enough signal to load the page once, which in a bad hall may mean stepping to the aisle. Nothing on the web gets around a dead hall entirely.
No. Apple Wallet is preinstalled on every iPhone and cannot be deleted. Android users open your page from the QR code and save you to their contacts from there.
Free forever for the card and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken. Pro is £12 per person per month, or £9 a month billed annually, for the contact memory, the drafted follow-ups and the reminders, with a sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.