What happens when someone scans a vCard QR code?

Their phone reads the embedded vCard and offers to save the contact directly, filling in your name, phone, email, company and website automatically — no typing.

Which fields are included?

Name, organization, job title, phone, email and website. Only the fields you actually fill in are written into the vCard; empty fields are left out.

What vCard version does it generate?

vCard 3.0, the most widely supported format. It is read natively by iOS, Android, macOS Contacts, Outlook and Google Contacts.

Why does my phone read it but show odd characters?

The generator escapes commas, semicolons, backslashes and newlines per RFC 6350 so they survive encoding. If a field looks wrong, check for stray punctuation in your input.

PNG or SVG — which should I download?

Use PNG for email signatures and social posts, and SVG for print or large signage because it stays sharp at any size.

How much can a vCard QR code hold?

The code uses error-correction level M, which tolerates roughly 15 percent damage. Keep details concise — very long fields make the code denser and harder to scan.

Are my contact details uploaded anywhere?

No. The vCard and QR image are generated entirely in your browser using a local library; nothing is sent to any server.

vCard QR Code Generator

A vCard QR code turns your contact card into a single scannable square. When someone points a phone camera at it, the device decodes an embedded vCard and offers to save you straight into their address book — name, phone, email, company and website, with no typing and no typos. It is ideal for email signatures, conference badges, printed business cards and shop windows.

How it works

The tool assembles a standard vCard 3.0 text block from your inputs, then encodes that text into a QR code locally in your browser.

It builds the vCard lines: BEGIN:VCARD, VERSION:3.0, an N: structured name (last;first;;;), an FN: display name, then optional ORG, TITLE, TEL;TYPE=CELL, EMAIL and URL lines for whichever fields you filled in, ending with END:VCARD.
Each value is escaped per RFC 6350 — backslashes, commas, semicolons and newlines are prefixed with a backslash so they do not break the format.
The finished text is rendered to a QR code at error-correction level M (about 15 percent recovery) and offered as PNG and SVG.

Example

For Ada Lovelace, Analytical Engines Ltd, phone +44 20 7946 0000, the generated payload is:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Lovelace;Ada;;;
FN:Ada Lovelace
ORG:Analytical Engines Ltd
TEL;TYPE=CELL:+44 20 7946 0000
END:VCARD

Scanning the resulting QR code opens a “Save contact” prompt pre-filled with all of those details.

Field	vCard line
Name	`N:` and `FN:`
Organization	`ORG:`
Job title	`TITLE:`
Phone	`TEL;TYPE=CELL:`
Email	`EMAIL:`
Website	`URL:`

Everything runs in your browser — your contact details are never uploaded.