How to make a business card free, in about ten minutes
A walk through the free card maker: the details you type once, the design you pick, and the print file and digital card you leave with.
Read it →A business card maker is the quick door: type six or seven details, pick a design and walk out with files. The builder is the whole tool, with every field, every section and a live phone beside you. Most people want the maker first and the builder a week later.
Open the maker when you need a card today
There are two doors into the same card, and picking the wrong one costs you time. The card maker asks for your name, title, company, phone, email and a photograph, then shows you designs. It does not ask you to sign in, and it does not ask you to decide anything you have no opinion about yet.
It suits three moments in particular:
- You have an event tomorrow and no cards.
- Somebody asked for your details and you want one link to send.
- You want to see whether the designs are any good before spending an evening on this.
What you get is a print file at the right size for your country and, if you press Make it digital, a card on the web carrying the same details.
Open the builder when the card has a job to do
The card builder is the same card with every control showing. It is a set of tabs: Settings and Look, Designs and Themes, Profile, Contact, Socials, Showcase, Business, Extras, Buttons, Sections and All Panels. Your real card is drawn in a phone beside them and changes as you type. The draft saves itself about a second after you stop typing.
You want it when the card has to do something beyond carrying a phone number:
- Buttons. One big button and three beside it, with the rest tucked under More ways to reach me. The kinds include call, WhatsApp, text, email, directions, save my contact, book a time, a video call, a menu, an order page, a review link, a portfolio, a brochure, a chat app, pay, and your own link.
- Sections. Services, products with prices, a gallery, videos, testimonials, opening hours, a map, questions and answers, a promo code people tap to copy, ways to pay, guest Wi-Fi, and more. Switch them on and drag them into the order you want. A section with nothing in it does not draw.
- Socials. More than a hundred services, each with its own mark, shipped by us rather than loaded from anybody else.
Nothing in the builder is hidden behind a plan while we are getting started. To see which buttons and sections a given job leans on, from a salon's booking button to a builder's quote form, look at the cards we set up for 25 trades.
What the finished card keeps doing
A printed card stops working the moment it leaves your hand. The one you build here does not. When someone opens it from your code and saves it to their phone, you can send them card notifications later: a reminder of what you do, or word of a new service. Put a Book a time button on the card and the WhatsApp add-on can send the automated follow-ups for you, a thank-you when the card is saved and a reminder before the appointment. Pro, at $0.99 a month, is where the notifications start.
Finding one field among a hundred
The builder has a lot of fields, which is the honest cost of doing everything on one card. Under Settings and Look, Additional Fields and Modules has a Browse all fields button that opens a field organiser: a search box over every field the card has, grouped, with a mark on the ones you are already using. Most fields can be typed straight into the organiser. The ones that need a whole panel, pictures, the brand colour, the design, a structured block, carry an Open Detailed Panel button instead.
That search box is the answer to "where is the thing that sets my opening hours". Type "hours".
Moving between the two
They are not separate products. If you press Make it digital in the maker, what you typed and the design you picked are carried into sign up, and your first card and your first print design are already filled in when you arrive. Nothing is lost on the way.
Going the other direction, the print design reads the details you typed in the builder, so correcting your job title in one place corrects it in the other.
Which one for a team
If several people need cards that look alike, start one person in the builder, get the design right, then use that as the pattern. A company account puts everybody on one address with one brand template and an admin who can reassign a seat when somebody leaves. The URL, the QR code, the leads and the numbers stay with the company rather than walking out of the door. The help centre explains seats in full.
A short rule
Use the maker to get something real in front of a person this week. Use the builder once you know what your card is for. The pages on visiting cards and business cards set out the wider options if you are still deciding what kind of card you want at all. If you already know, make your free card and open whichever door fits this week.
Questions people ask
Can I start in the maker and finish in the builder?
Yes, and that is the usual path. The maker hands its details and its design straight to your account, and the builder opens on them.
Does the builder need a paid plan?
No. Everything is switched on for every account while we are getting started, so you can build the whole card and see what it does before deciding anything about money. What each plan holds is on the plans page.
Will my print design change if I edit the digital card?
The details are shared, so a corrected phone number appears in both. The layout is not: your print design keeps the arrangement you chose until you change it.
Can I use my own fonts?
You choose from fifteen lettering families we ship ourselves. Because the download carries the shapes rather than a font name, a printer never has to own the lettering.