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Paper cards are not the problem. Reprinting them is.
This is the comparison that actually matters, and the honest answer is not "stop printing".
The short answer
Before you read any further.
If you hand over two cards a year at events where everyone expects paper, nothing here will change your life. The case for a digital card gets strong at exactly one point: when the details on the paper stop being true.
Where paper business cards win
What we are not going to pretend.
- A paper card needs no battery, no signal and no camera. It works in any room, held by anyone, forever.
- It is a physical object people keep. A card in a wallet is a reminder; a contact in a phone is a row in a list.
- In some rooms the exchange is a ritual — presented with two hands, read, acknowledged. Pulling out a phone instead reads as a misstep, and no feature list fixes that.
- Design control is total. Paper stock, finish and weight all say something a screen cannot.
Where we win
What a digital card does instead.
- It updates itself. A title change, a new number or a new office costs you nothing and breaks nothing already printed.
- You find out what happened after you handed it over — opens, scans, and who chose to leave their details.
- People can save your contact without typing it, which is where most paper cards quietly fail.
- It carries more than a card can hold: a brochure, a booking link, thirteen ways to reach you.
Who should pick which
Honestly, it depends on one thing.
Stay where you are if…
Stick with paper alone if your details never change, you hand out very few cards, and the rooms you work in expect the ritual.
Try this if…
Add a digital card if your title or number has changed in the last two years, if you collect leads at events, or if you have ever handed over a card knowing one line on it was already out of date.
Our recommendation
The honest recommendation: do both.
Put your QR code on the back of the paper card you already print. The paper carries the ritual and the physical object; the code carries the details that change and the analytics. You stop reprinting because a number changed — the card still points at a page you can edit — and you lose nothing about the exchange itself. Demanding that anyone abandon paper would be a worse recommendation than the one that actually works.
Try it before you decide.
The free plan needs no credit card, so you can see whether it survives contact with the way you actually work.
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