Share your card

Open a card from your Kards list and you are already where you need to be: the owner view lands on the Share tab, and everything on it exists to put your card in someone's hands. A new Kard's tab opens with "Get your Kard seen", six first steps to take with it (Get your Kard seen).

The minute after you make it

Press "Create Kard" and you land on the Share tab with "Your Kard is live." at the top: your link with "Copy", "Send to a number", "Share…" on a phone (the phone's own share sheet), "Show my QR", and "Add a photo" while your Kard has none. With it comes the picture chat apps show with your link, drawn a few seconds after the Kard is made. The panel stays on that page (come back from WhatsApp and it's still there) until you press ✕ to hide it. Hidden, it doesn't come back, and everything in it stays on the Share tab.

Send to a number

Met someone who says "give me your number, I'll WhatsApp you"? Do it the other way round. "Send to a number" takes their number and their name, then "WhatsApp" or "Text message" opens a chat to them with the words already written, "Hi Ravi, it's Priya. Here's my Kard:" and your link. You still press send, from your own phone, and they don't need to be saved on it first. It's in that first panel, and on the Share tab any time after. A number without a + and country code is read as a number in your country, which the line under the field names; for someone abroad, start with + and their country's code. Where the browser offers it (Chrome on Android), "Pick from contacts" fills both in from your phone.

"Save Ravi to my contacts" is ticked to start with. Ravi lands in the Kard's Contacts, where you can set a reminder to follow up and the morning email brings him back (Notes and follow-ups); someone already there with that number isn't saved twice. Untick it to send without saving them. If you've written your own WhatsApp hello on your Profile (Your account), the message uses it, with your link. Each send counts as sending your Kard in a chat on Get your Kard seen.

Show my QR, for someone in front of you

"Show my QR", at the top of the tab, puts your card's QR code on a white page of its own, as big as your screen allows, with your name, "Scan to save my contact" and your link under it (beside it, with the phone turned sideways). It's the code the QR studio saved, colours, shape and logo as you made them. Hold it up and the other person scans it with their camera. Your screen stays on while the page is open, where the browser can keep it on; where it can't, the page says so and asks you to turn the brightness up. "Done" takes you back. Each card on your Kards list has the same button: the QR icon on a phone, "Show QR" on a computer.

Your link, ready to send

A read-only "Share link" field holds your card's address, with a "Copy" button beside it. The panel's own words set the terms: "Anyone with this link can view your Kard and save your contact details."

Under it, "Send it in a chat" has two buttons: "WhatsApp" opens WhatsApp with your link written out, for you to pick who gets it, and "Email" opens a new email with your link in it. On a phone, a "Share via…" button opens the device's native share sheet, so the link drops into any other app; and each card on your Kards list carries its own "Share Kard" button.

What a pasted link shows

Paste your link into WhatsApp, LinkedIn, iMessage, Slack, an email or a post on X, and it shows a picture of your Kard: your photo in a circle (or your initials), your name, your job title (or your tagline) and company, in your layout's colours, with your link and eKard under a rule. Beside it go your name and a line on what you do: your job title and company, or your tagline when you've given neither.

The picture is redrawn by itself when you change your name, job title, tagline, company, photo, layout or link, and on a team Kard when the team's name, layout or address changes. A chat keeps the preview it showed for a link already sent; links sent after the change show the new one. A Kard made a moment ago shows eKard's own card until its picture is drawn. With "Create your own eKard" hidden on a paid plan (Kard settings), the picture leaves out eKard's name too.

Quick links

Put a WhatsApp number or a Google Business link on your card and the Share tab grows a "Quick links" section — "One-tap shortcuts people can use to reach you — share or copy them anywhere."

• WhatsApp — your link with /whatsapp on the end. Opening it starts a WhatsApp chat with you.
• Maps location — your link with /location on the end. Opening it shows your location in Google Maps.

Each row carries its own Share button on mobile, Copy on desktop. These two are the only shortcuts — each appears when the matching detail is on the card, and not before. Take the number or the link off your card later and a shortcut you've already shared opens your card instead, where people still find every other way to reach you; put it back and the shortcut works again.

The QR, briefly

The "QR code" panel shows the code that opens your card, with two buttons: "Customize QR" opens the QR studio, where you can set its colours and shape and put your logo in the middle, and "Download" saves it as a PNG. The craft, and how the QR stays correct when your card changes, is the course on your QR code.

Further down the tab

Six more ways to hand your card over, each free on every plan: "Make my email signature" (Your email signature), "Make my printable card" (Print your card), "Make my video background" (A video-call background), "Make my lock-screen wallpaper" (A lock-screen wallpaper), "Make my Status picture" or "Make a greeting" (A Status picture and greetings), and the design editor for a page of your own (Design your own page).

Three counters, from day one

Above the panels sit three running totals for the life of the card: Views — the number of times your Kard has been viewed; Contacts — people who shared their contact info through it; Link clicks — the times your custom links were clicked. The counters are there on every plan, free included. What each number counts, precisely, is the course on what gets counted.

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