NFC is the technology that opens your card when the other person taps their phone. No app, no typing, not even scanning. Here is how to set up NFC and when to use it.
NFC is a chip in a small sticker or card. When a phone comes close, it offers to open your card on its own. The same principle you use to pay with a phone, only instead of paying it opens your business card.
You need an NFC sticker or a plastic NFC card, both cheap to buy. Modern phones read NFC with no setup at all.
You write your card address into the NFC tag. You do this once, with a free NFC writing app, and the tag is then ready forever.
Since the tag carries a link, not the full content, you change the card later as much as you want, and the tag stays the same.
| Situation | Better choice |
|---|---|
| A face to face talk | NFC, one tap is fastest. |
| A flyer, a window, a slide | QR, it is visible and scanned from a distance. |
| An older phone | QR, it works on almost any phone. |
It is best to use both. NFC for close contact, QR for everything else. Both lead to the same card.
They have an NFC sticker on the back of their phone. At every meeting they just tap the other person phone and the card opens, with no paper to pull out.
On most newer ones. For older phones you always have the QR code as a backup.
Yes. NFC works on every plan, just like the QR code.