Work out what paper cards, typing in contacts and losing them after events cost you each year. Pick a tab, change the numbers to yours, and see what the matching free tool saves.
No sign-up. Your numbers stay in your browser.
Works out what printing paper cards costs you each year, plus the time spent ordering them. Change any number to match yours.
Count yourself, or everyone on your team who carries cards.
How many times a year each person orders a new box, for example after running out or a job title change.
How many cards are printed each time. Printers usually sell packs of 100, 250 or 500.
What your printer charges for 100 cards. Check your last invoice.
Time spent on design, approvals and placing the order.
What an hour of that person's time costs you.
The free plan includes up to 4 cards, with no monthly fee.
Each person can use the free plan. The Team plan ($25 a month for 5 seats, billed annually) adds one license for the whole team, admin branding controls and a custom domain.
Works out how many people see your card link in your email signature each year. Change any number to match yours.
Only emails to clients, partners and new contacts, not your own team.
Weeks in the year you are working and sending email.
Your guess at how many readers tap the card link. Start low.
Works out the time you spend typing paper business cards into your phone or CRM. Change any number to match yours.
Paper business cards people hand you in a month.
Time to type one card's name, title, company, phone and email.
What an hour of your time is worth.
Works out how many event contacts you lose when paper cards never get followed up. Change any number to match yours.
Conferences, trade shows and meetups you go to in a year.
People you exchange details with at one event.
Your guess at how many paper-card contacts you never message after the event.
Share your card by QR and the contact is saved on the spot, with a note on where you met.
Works out the time spent making event name badges one by one. Change any number to match yours.
People who need a name badge at one event.
Events you organise in a year.
Time to type and lay out one badge by hand.
What an hour of that person's time costs you.
Works out how many people save your contact from a QR code on your video call background. Change any number to match yours.
Calls where you meet someone for the first time, such as sales or intro calls.
New faces on a typical one of those calls.
Your guess at how many of them scan the QR on your background.
Weeks in the year you are on calls.
Works out how many people save your contact from a QR code you print on signs, flyers or badges. Change any number to match yours.
People who walk past your table sign, flyer or badge in a month.
Your guess at how many of them scan it.
Works out the typing time saved for the people you meet when they scan your Wallet pass. Change any number to match yours.
Time for the other person to type your name, number and email into their phone.
Time to scan the QR on your Wallet pass and save it.
Weeks in the year you are meeting people.
Works out the time spent copying contacts out of a .vcf file by hand. Change any number to match yours.
The number of contacts in your .vcf file.
Time to copy one contact into a spreadsheet by hand.
What an hour of your time is worth.
Adds up the 1 tab you have opened, out of 10.
Where to find your own figures for each tab, and which free tool it points to.
Paper cards cost more than the print bill. Each reorder takes someone's time for design, approval and placing the order, and a new title or phone number means a new box.
Every email you send to someone outside your company can carry a link to your card. The calculator counts how often that link is shown and how many people tap it.
Typing a paper card into your phone or CRM means the name, title, company, phone and email, one card at a time. The free scanner reads a whole stack of card photos and gives you a CSV or vCard file.
Paper cards from an event pile up, and some never get a follow-up. The calculator counts how many contacts that costs you in a year.
If you run events, badges made one at a time take hours. The badge maker turns an attendee CSV into print-ready badges, each with a QR code.
On a video call, a QR code on your background lets new people save your contact without asking for it.
Visitors to your LinkedIn profile see your banner first. A QR code on it opens your card. LinkedIn shows your profile views under Analytics.
A QR code on a table sign, flyer or badge lets people save your contact in one tap.
A Wallet pass opens from your phone, and the other person scans it instead of typing your number.
If your contacts are in a .vcf file, the viewer shows them in a table and exports a CSV, instead of copying them one by one.
Every result comes from the numbers you enter. Nothing is added from outside averages.
Look at which tab shows the largest cost or the most lost contacts. That is the tool to set up first.
Open the tool named in the tab. Several need no sign-up, and most take a few minutes.
Put the same card in your email signature, LinkedIn banner, meeting background and Wallet, so every place you show up leads to one card.
Share the totals with whoever pays for printing or runs your events. The Team plan adds one license for the whole team and admin branding controls.
Run the calculator again with the figures you have seen since, and compare.
They are starting examples, not industry averages. Replace each one with your own figures, such as your printer's price per 100 cards or the number of contacts you met at your last event.
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