Digital business card for tattoo artists A convention hall has no signal. Your card should.
A free card for conventions and guest spots: it opens with no signal, and each client can send their details back to you.
Free forever · No card details · About a minute
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Example of what happens next: Zoe Lambert scans Marla’s card, saves Marla to their contacts and chooses to send their own details back. The next morning at 09:00, Cardr Pro reminds Marla to follow up, with the email already drafted.
Forty handles by Monday, and no idea who wanted the forearm piece. Conventions have no signal and no quiet moment. Your Cardr pass opens with no reception; clients save you, can send their name and email or number back, and your note on the design sits on their name. Pro drafts the booking message.
One scan. You’re in their phone. They can send theirs.
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Show your pass
Between two lines. It opens with no signal.
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They save you
No app. Then they can send you their email.
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Open your books
The design is in your note. Pro drafts the message.
Example
A hall of concrete, and four thousand phones.
The convention floor
- No signal
- Forty handles
- No quiet moment
Everyone in the building is on the same three cell towers. Nothing loads. That is the constraint nobody designs for.
- No signal. A convention hall is concrete, windowless and four thousand phones deep. Anything that has to load does not.
- Forty handles. Two days of conversations arrive as Instagram names you cannot match to a design or a body part by Monday.
- No quiet moment. You are working the whole weekend. Whatever the handover is, it happens between two lines.
Each constraint decides the format. A card that fails any one of the three does not get used a second time, however good it looks.
cardr.co/marla-quinn
- Edit once, it updates
- Blackwork, fine line · Open March
- One scan, no app
- Opens with no signal
Convention centres are hard places to get signal: concrete, no windows, thousands of phones on the same masts.
Your Apple Wallet pass is already on your phone, so your code opens with the bars at zero. The person scanning still needs enough signal to load your page once.
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 on the name, taken in the moment, is the difference between a full book and a DM you never answer.
Nothing for them to download.
Tap through what Tom sees when he scans your card.
Marla QuinnNo app, no account, no sign-up for the people you meet.
Make yours in about a minute.
Free forever, and nothing for the people you meet to install.
For the floor, the guest spot and the deposit.
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The convention floorZoe saves you · can send theirs -
Days 1–2
Nothing to remember -
Day 3
ProTime to follow up with Zoe LambertFollow-up drafted
- A full book after the weekend. Each client can send their name and email or number, so you are not searching handles.
- The piece on the person. “Forearm blackwork, cover-up, back in March”, in a note on their name. Free.
- Saved with zero bars. Your code’s No signal option holds your contact itself, so a camera saves you without internet.
- Deposit terms on the card. Link your booking form or terms, so “how does it work?” is answered.
- Guest spots without a reprint. Change the shop, city and dates once, and everyone with your link sees them.
- Instagram, and a list Instagram cannot take. Your portfolio is one tap away, and your client list is yours.
The card is free. Pro does the follow-up.
Everything in the first column stays free, with no expiry and no limit on exchanges or contacts. Pro adds what happens after the meeting.
| FreeForever, no card details | Pro£12 a month, or £9 a month billed annually (£108 a year) | |
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| Nothing to install for the person you meet | Included | Included |
| A no-signal code that holds your contact itself | Included | Included |
| Pass designs | One: Oxford | IncludedAll 16 |
| A page that gets you booked | Booking, WhatsApp and review links on your page | IncludedEverything |
| Your follow-ups, written and ready | One draft and reminders about your first three people | IncludedEverything |
| Every lead, sorted | Your list, notes, tags, who replied, the timeline, search and export | IncludedEverything |
| See what your card wins you | Views, scans, swaps and saves, counted | IncludedEverything |
Pro turns the people you meet into work you win.
For people who meet customers, it starts with a page that books the job. Choose one to see it.
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Pin Book a time or WhatsApp right under Save, so the next step is one tap for the person you just met.
- Up to six services, each with a “from” price.
- Up to three quotes from your clients, shared with their permission.
- The button shows again after they send you their details.
Free: booking, WhatsApp and review links on your page, as links.
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At 09:00 your time, Cardr emails you who to follow up, with the message already written from what you talked about. One tap opens it in your email, or WhatsApp when you have their number, ready to send.
- Drafts for 200 people a month, in your voice.
- Reminded on day 3 or the morning after you meet, your choice, or on the day they said. One more nudge on day 7 if they are still waiting.
- Pick a time to send it later, and the draft comes back to you then.
Free: one draft and reminders about your first three people, to try it on your own.
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See who could turn into work and who you won, at a glance. Nobody slips because they were halfway down a list.
- Opportunity, Won and Lost, with what it was worth.
- A pipeline of everyone by stage, and a next step on each person that reminds you on its day.
Free: your list, notes, tags, who replied, the timeline, search and export. Always.
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What came of everyone you met: who replied, what turned into work and what it was worth, by event, by source and by Cardr Metal card.
- How fast you follow up, and the days people swap details with you.
- Taps on your page’s booking or WhatsApp button, by where people came from.
- Download it all as a spreadsheet.
Free: views, scans, swaps and saves, counted, on every plan.
Free, and staying free
- They tell you what they need doing, and when to call
- Every contact, with notes, search and export
- Nothing to install for the person you meet
- A no-signal code that holds your contact itself
- Views, scans, swaps and saves, counted
Pro
- 7 daysfree to try
- 30 daysfull refund
Where to go next.
How it compares, two guides for your week and a free tool. Also for: Barbers, Photographers, Artists. Every version of this page, and pricing: free forever, or £12 a month with a 7-day trial. After you’ve met them: how to follow up, with messages to copy. This card’s design: Oxblood.
Mobilo: best for a team that wants cards and CRM sync for little. Prices, Wallet and follow-up side by side.
AlternativesHiHello alternativesThe other options to HiHello, with dated prices, and who should stay.
GuideHow to make a vCard QR codeWhat a vCard QR code is, why the raw kind often fails on a phone, the size limit nobody mentions, and how to make a vCard QR code free with no signup.
GuideAdd a business card to Apple WalletApple Wallet only takes signed passes, so you need a card issued as one.
Free toolvCard QR code generatorA QR code that saves your contact to their phone. No signup.
Also for
Tattoo artists, answered.
Will it work at a convention with no signal?
Your pass will, because Apple Wallet stores it on your phone. If their phone has no signal either, open cardr.co/me/code and switch to No signal: that code holds your contact itself, so their camera saves you. They can send their details from your page once online.
Do your clients need an app?
No. Your QR code opens your card as a web page on their phone, iPhone or Android, and they save you to their contacts from there. Nobody downloads an app or creates an account.
Can I put my deposit terms on it?
Yes. Any link can point to your booking form, terms page or enquiry form. Links sit on the back of your pass and on your page.
Does it replace Instagram?
No. Put your Instagram on the card and keep both. Cardr adds a contact list you own, with your notes, that stays yours if your account is disabled or the algorithm stops showing your work.
What does it cost?
Free forever, no card details: your card, page and Apple Wallet pass, the two-way exchange, and every contact with notes, search and export. Pro, £12 a month or £108 a year (£9 a month), adds drafted booking messages, reminders and all 16 pass designs. 7 days free, then 30 days to change your mind.
Free forever. About a minute to build.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.