For musicians and DJs

After the set, during the load-out.

The bookings come from the room you just played to, and the conversation happens while you are carrying an amp. Cardr makes the handover a code on a phone and gets you their details rather than a promise to look you up.

Every booking you get started with someone who watched you play. The trouble is the moment they want to talk to you: the set has ended, you are moving gear, it is loud, and the venue has no signal. Cardr makes that handover a code on the phone in your pocket, with nothing for them to install, and brings their number and email back so a booking enquiry does not depend on them remembering your band name spelled correctly.

The real scene

Loud, dark, and both hands are full.

Of every scene on this site, this is the one with the fewest free hands and the worst conditions.

Where it happens

The load-out

Of every scene on this site, this is the one with the fewest free hands and the worst conditions.

  • No free hands Of every scene on this site this one has the fewest. You are carrying an amp with both of them.
  • Dark and loud You cannot read a printed card in a venue, and you cannot hear an address being spelled out.
  • The van It is double-parked and the conversation is over when the driver leans on the horn.

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.

Somebody has just decided they want you at their wedding, their bar, or their birthday, and they have roughly the length of a load-out to act on it. In that window you cannot get to a bag, you cannot hear an email address being spelled, and typing anything into a phone in a dark room is optimistic.

A code they scan is the only thing that reliably works, and it has to work without the venue’s signal, which basements and function rooms do not have. A Wallet pass is stored on the device rather than fetched, so it shows regardless.

What comes back is the important half. A punter who has your Instagram will maybe message you. A punter whose number you have gets a reply the next morning with your rates and your availability, which is when a good night becomes a booking.

The card itself

What it looks like on the phone.

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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An example card in the dusk design. The holder is invented; the rendering is not. All eight designs are on Pro, three on the free plan.
What you get

One code, everything you sell.

  • All the links in one place. Spotify, SoundCloud, Instagram, YouTube, a website and a booking link are all standard link types on the free plan.
  • Their details back. Two-way exchange, free, so an enquiry survives the walk to the car park.
  • The date and the ask on the record. Notes and tags per contact: “wedding, August, wants a first dance cover” attached to the name.
  • The reply written. Fifty drafted messages a month on Pro, so the enquiry gets answered on Sunday rather than Thursday.
  • Works in a basement. Your pass opens with no signal because it is already on your phone.
  • Change the act, keep the audience. New name, new lineup, new rates: edit the card and every saved copy updates itself.
Questions

Musicians and DJs, answered.

Do they need to install anything to save my card?

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. Nobody is downloading an app at eleven at night in a function room.

Will it work in a venue with no signal?

Your pass opens offline, because it is stored on your phone. The person scanning your code needs enough signal to load the page once, so in a basement the reliable pattern is taking their details there and sending your links when you are back on a network.

Can I put my music and my rates on it?

Yes, on the free plan. Website, Spotify, SoundCloud, Instagram, YouTube and a booking link are standard, so the card can carry the whole thing rather than just a phone number.

I play in two bands. Can I have two cards?

Not on one account. Each Cardr is a single card, so a second act means a second account. It is clumsy and we would rather tell you before you sign up.

What does it cost?

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 a month billed annually, and adds the contact memory, the drafted replies and the reminders. Sixty-day money back guarantee.

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