Your email signature
Your card under every email: pick a layout, copy it, paste it into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail. Free.
Every email you send can carry your card: your photo, how to reach you, your card's link and its QR code, under your name. eKard builds the signature from the card, on every plan, free included. You copy it once and paste it into your email app's signature settings; from then on every message hands your card over.
Make it
- Open Kards, pick a card, and on the Share tab choose "Make my email signature".
- Pick a layout. Photo and QR code puts your photo beside your details with your card's code on the right, for people reading on a computer to scan with their phone. Photo and Save button trades the code for a "Save my contact" button: one tap on a phone saves you to their contacts. Text only is three short lines, good for replies.
- Press "Copy signature". The page shows the signature exactly as your email app will get it, above a "Best regards," so you can judge it in place.
The signature carries what your card carries: the name, the tagline as your title, your organization's name on a team card, your phone, email and website, your card's link, and the places to find you (LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and the rest). Missing a photo, or a phone and an email? The page says so and links to Edit Kard.
Paste it
- Gmail on a computer: the gear at the top right, then "See all settings". On the General tab, under Signature, "Create new", paste into the box, choose it under "Signature defaults" and press "Save Changes" at the bottom. The Gmail phone app keeps its own text-only signature.
- Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows: Settings, then Account, then Signatures. "New signature", paste, choose it for new messages and replies, Save.
- Outlook for Windows (classic): File, Options, Mail, Signatures. "New", paste into the box at the bottom, choose it for new messages and replies, OK. Outlook draws the photo square: it doesn't round corners.
- Outlook for Mac: Outlook, Settings, Signatures, then "+", paste and name it.
- Apple Mail on a Mac: Mail, Settings, Signatures. Pick the account, "+", untick "Always match my default message font", paste into the box on the right.
- Mail on an iPhone: copy the signature on the iPhone, then Settings, Apps, Mail, Signature, and paste. iPhone Mail keeps the text and links and may drop the images, so Text only reads best there.
It keeps itself current, mostly
The photo and the QR code load from your card's own addresses, which always answer with the card's current photo and code. Change your photo next year and the signatures in emails you sent this year show the new one (an email app that keeps its own copy of images, as Gmail does, can take a day to catch up). The words are different: your name, title, number and links are written into the signature when you copy it. After changing them on your card, copy the signature again and paste it over the old one.
Some people's email apps hold back images until they choose to show them. The signature reads fine without them: the details are text, and the card's link is always there to tap.
In the app, and for agents
The same signature comes from the API, so eKard's app and AI agents can offer it: GET /api/v1/kards/{share_link}/signature, with a layout of qr, button or text. It answers with the HTML, a plain-text version and the image addresses; the developers page has the rest.