Paper, digital business card apps or a platform for teams: a comparison

If you are comparing paper, a digital business card app and a platform built for teams, the difference is not the card: it is who manages it. An app solves one person's card. For a company the problem is a different one: onboarding the whole team, keeping every card on the same brand, recovering the physical cards when someone leaves, and knowing which contacts each card has generated.

Below you will find the three options compared across the twelve points that, from working with teams of 10 to 700 people, decide the purchase. If you want the platforms on the market one by one, that is in our ranking of digital business card apps and platforms.

What changes when the decision is for a team

With paper, every change of job title, phone number or logo means a reprint and a box of outdated cards in a drawer. With an app designed for individual use, each person builds their card their own way: the result is a team with ten versions of the same logo and nobody able to measure anything.

A platform for teams turns it around: the administrator sets the company design once, onboards people (manually, by CSV or from the HRIS) and from then on every card updates itself. We go into it on the digital business card page and, if the physical format matters, on corporate NFC cards.

What to ask before you decide

• Is there a dashboard where every card in the team can be seen and edited, or does each person log into their own?
• Does the company set the design, or can each employee change it?
• Can you onboard a hundred people at once, or do they go one by one?
• What happens to the physical card when someone leaves: is it reassigned or thrown away?
• Do incoming contacts reach the CRM, or do they stay inside the platform?
• Who provides support, in which language and during which hours?

If you want us to go through it with your team's numbers and your case, talk to sales.