How VistaConnect works
Your business card
Put your contact info directly onto customers’ devices with your custom NFC business card.
Your customers
People hold their phone over the NFC business card to activate the phone’s built-in scanning technology.
Your VistaConnect
Customers go to your new online experience, which we’ll help you create and edit – free of charge.
VistaConnect options
Check out everything else you can add to your VistaConnect site.
VistaConnect takes minutes to set up.
01
Create your custom NFC business card
Customize one of our templates with your own text and images.
02
Create your online experience
Choose what customers will see (or do) when they scan your card.
03
Place your order
There’s no extra fee for VistaConnect, and you can update it anytime.
04
Activate VistaConnect
Be sure to publish your web experience via your Workspace.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can build the online experience after completing your purchase. You can use our convenient builder/editor anytime to create, update or edit your VistaConnect experience whenever you want. On the VistaPrint website go to My Account and select My Digital Marketing to access these features.
Near Field Communication (NFC) is contactless transfer technology similar to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It allows devices to send and receive bits of data or information. To enable or activate the NFC built into your digital business card, just hold the card up to a smartphone. For more information on activation and device compatibility, see our complete guide to VistaConnect & Scanning Technology .
For NFC cards, we use a thicker, 30pt durable plastic. This helps protect the built-in technology and give the cards better overall durability. We charge our normal price for this type of paper – there’s no extra charge for the NFC functionality.
The scanning technology we use for connected products requires a specific layout for your cards. However, we are working on adding the option to use your own design.
No – you don’t even need to have a lot of knowledge about the Internet. We’ll help you create and manage your new online experience for customers. See above for more information on what you can do with VistaConnect.
Absolutely. You can link to your existing website, related websites, social media profiles and more.
Not right now, but we’re working on adding these options.
After you finish designing your QR code business card, we’ll take you right to our VistaConnect studio, where you can customize and preview the online experience you’ll be linking to.