Two days on a convention floor produces a hundred conversations, forty Instagram handles you will never match to a face, and a signal bar that has been empty since ten in the morning. Cardr hands over a card that opens offline and takes their details back so the list survives the weekend.
Tattooing runs on a booking queue, and the queue is filled at conventions and guest spots. Both are places with terrible signal and no quiet moment, and both leave you with a pile of Instagram handles you cannot attach to a design or a body part by Monday. Cardr gives out a card that opens with no reception, returns their name and what they asked about into a list you can search, and drafts the message that opens your books to them.
Everyone in the building is on the same three cell towers. Nothing loads. That is the constraint nobody designs for.
The convention floor
Everyone in the building is on the same three cell towers. Nothing loads. That is the constraint nobody designs for.
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.
Convention centres are the worst signal environment most people ever hand a card out in: dense concrete, no windows, and several thousand phones competing for the same capacity. Any digital card that is only a web page fails there, at the exact moment it is being used.
An Apple Wallet pass is already on the device once it has been added, so it opens with the bars at zero. That is not a marginal advantage in a hall like that. It is the difference between the card working and you apologising while somebody watches a spinner.
The other half is the list. Forty people asked about a piece, and by Monday you have forty handles and no idea which one wanted the forearm blackwork. A note against the name, taken in the moment, is the whole difference between a booked queue and a DM you never answer.
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.
cardr.co/marla-quinn
The scene changes by trade, but the mechanism does not. See every version of this page.
You changed shop. Did your clients find out?
Also forPhotographersThe wedding you are shooting is the best-qualified room you will stand in all year.
Also forMusicians and DJsThe bookings come from the room you just played to.
PricingFree forever, or £12 a monthWhat each plan includes, and the sixty-day guarantee.
Your pass will, because Apple Wallet stores it on your device rather than fetching it. The person scanning your QR code does need enough signal to load the page once, which in a bad hall can be the bottleneck. The pattern that works is showing the pass, taking their details through the exchange, and letting them add yours later when they are outside.
Yes. Any link type can point wherever you want, so a booking form, a terms page or an enquiry form all work. Everything you add sits on the back of the pass, which is where the links live and where there is no practical limit on how many you have.
No, and it should not try to. It gives you something Instagram does not: a contact list you own, with your notes on it, that still exists if your account is disabled or the algorithm stops showing your work. Put your Instagram on the card and keep both.
Edit the card with the shop and dates and every client who saved it sees the update on their phone. That is more reliable than a story that disappears in a day, and it reaches the people who already want to be tattooed by you rather than the ones the algorithm picks.
The card, the pass, the QR code and the two-way exchange are free forever with no card details taken. Pro is £12 a month, or £9 billed annually, and adds the searchable list with notes and tags, the drafted messages and the reminders. Sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.