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Hoq Card
A printed business card you write for the person you hand it to.
What it does
Every Hoq Card is a printed card with its own eight-character code and QR code at hoq.link/C/ followed by the code. Scan a blank card while signed in and it becomes yours, showing the profile you pick: work, shop or personal.
Before you hand a card over, scan it and write who it is for, a note and an offer. That one card's page shows them. A note can stop showing on a date you set, after which the card shows just your details.
You see when the person opened the card and on what kind of device. Your own views and link previews are not counted. The page gives them a vCard their phone can save.
Cards print on your own card printer through Hoq Print, up to 50 new cards in one job, with the QR drawn as vector shapes. You can upload your own artwork and place the QR where you want it.
In numbers
8characters in every card's code
50new cards printed in one job
20 mmvector QR code on each card
Specifications
| Card address | hoq.link/C/ plus an eight-character code made from 32 letters and digits that cannot be mistaken for each other. |
|---|---|
| Card size | CR80, the standard credit-card size, with a 20 mm vector QR code. |
| Contact file | vCard 3.0 at /c/<code>/contact.vcf, which a phone saves to its contacts. |
| Opened tracking | Counts an open from a script on the page, so link previews and your own views are left out. |
| Guessing protection | An address that asks for 10 codes that do not exist within 10 minutes, or 40 in a day, must wait before opening any card. |
| Printing | Through your own Hoq Print, with a key that can only send print jobs. You choose the printer and can disconnect it. |
| Your artwork | Upload PNG, JPEG or WebP, landscape or portrait; drag and size the QR spot, then check a sample PDF before printing. |
| Where data lives | As objects in Hoq's own object storage. Card has no separate database. |
| Sign-in | Hoq ID. There are no separate Card passwords. |
Features
15 features: 10 shipped, 5 in beta. Listed from the product's feature ledger; each row shows the day it was last checked.
| Card codes | Each printed card carries its own eight-character code and QR, `hoq.link/C/<code>`. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Claim by scanning | Scanning a blank card while signed in makes it yours and picks the profile it shows. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Profiles | Your name, title, company, phones, emails, links, address and a note, kept as a few profiles (work, shop, personal). | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Written for one person | Before handing a card over you write who it is for, a note and an offer; that card's page shows them. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Note that expires | A card's note can stop showing on a date, after which the card shows just your details. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| See it as they will | Shows the page exactly as the person you hand it to will see it. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Opened by them | Tells you when the person opened the card and on what kind of device; your own views and link previews do not count. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Guessing protection | An address that asks for ten card codes that don't exist within ten minutes, or forty in a day, is told to wait before it can open any card. Codes are eight characters from 32 that can't be mistaken for each other. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Save contact | The card page gives a contact file (vCard 3.0) a phone can save. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Retire a card | A retired card says it is no longer used. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Printing | Cards print on a business-card printer through Hoq Print, one card per page with the QR drawn as vector shapes. | Beta | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Connect to Hoq Print | Connects Card to your own Hoq Print with a key that can only send print jobs, which you can disconnect; you choose the printer your cards go to. | Beta | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Print new cards | Makes up to 50 new cards already yours with a chosen profile and sends them to your printer in one job. | Beta | Checked 2026-10-12 |
| Print one card | Sends a single card again from its page. | Beta | Checked 2026-10-12 |
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| Your own artwork | Upload a picture for the card (landscape or portrait), drag and resize where its QR code goes, check a sample PDF, then print new cards or one card with it; each card gets its own QR on a white square in that spot. | Beta | Checked 2026-10-12 |
Works with
Your data
| Where it is kept | In Hoq's own object storage. Your print key is stored sealed. |
|---|---|
| Getting it out | Each card offers its contact as a vCard. A full export of your cards and profiles is not published. |
| If you leave | Retire a card and its page says it is no longer used. An account-closing flow is not published. |
APIs and standards
- Public card page: https://hoq.link/C/<CODE>
- vCard: /c/<CODE>/contact.vcf
- Standard: vCard 3.0
- Standard: QR code (ISO/IEC 18004)
- Standard: PDF
- Standard: CR80 card size (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1)
Compared
| Checked 2026-11-01 | Hoq Card | Blinq | HiHello |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price for one person | Not published | Premium: $9.99/mo monthly, $7.33/mo annually1 | Professional: $8/mo monthly, $6/mo annually2 |
| Team price | Not published | Business: $6.99/user/mo monthly, $4.99 annually, 5 card minimum1 | Business: $6/user/mo monthly, $5 annually, 5 to 100 users2 |
| Free plan | Not published | Free forever, 1 to 2 cards1 | Personal: free, 2 cards2 |
| Printed cards | Printed on your own card printer through Hoq Print; every card has its own code | NFC cards sold separately; plan inclusion not stated1 | NFC card programming from Professional2 |
| Different message per recipient | Yes: note, offer and expiry written on each printed card | not published1 | not published2 |
| Opened tracking | Per card, people only, with device type | Card analytics listed1 | Views, saves and leads from Professional2 |
| Lead capture and CRM | Planned (details sent back into Hoq CRM) | 20+ native CRM integrations, Zapier and API1 | Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics on Business2 |
| Phone and wallet sharing | QR on the printed card and a vCard download | not published1 | QR, email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple and Google Wallet2 |