Blipcard®
We convert your professional data and information
into a digital business card.
Blipcard®
Blipcard® is a portuguese hosting service for business cards stored in a electronic format with interactive functions and standardised device compatibility.
Available in Portugal since 2010, the solution is provided by Pulsaris® and allows you to overcome many of the limitations of cards printed on paper or plastic.
Your business card in digital format. More economical, more environmentally friendly, and without the costs of printing on paper.
Your essential information at a distance of a few seconds
Less 94.2% in total data transferred per page; 67.2% reduction in total page transfer time; one-tenth (90% less) of the total number of requests.*
* Analysis of @maryland on December 4th, 2019 through the GTmetrix® service.
(In 2023 we achieved scores of "A (100%) Performance" and "A (97%) Structure" via London, United Kingdom).
Simple conversion of contact elements
Convert your vCard file, email signature, or physical business card into a practical and versatile web page that incorporates your physical materials in digital format.
* Conversion performed by Pulsaris.
What is it and who is it for?
Blipcard® is a hosting service for business cards in electronic format with standardized interactivity and compatibility functions. The service has been continuously developed by Pulsaris® since 2010 and overcomes many of the limitations of printed paper or plastic cards.
The service's fundamental principle is the portability and interoperability of user data across as many internet-enabled devices as possible. Its distinctive format allows the Blipcard® to be used as a standalone, cross-platform application in virtually all internet browsers that support HTML5 and JavaScript.
An alternative to traditional cards.
This service is a great alternative to traditional business cards as it has no space limit for content and incorporates interactive features with all your contact information.
Starting from a free subscription (€0.00/month)*, these arguments alone become almost sufficient to make this an obvious choice over traditional business card orders printed on paper or plastic.
* Monthly subscription price for the individual version (plus applicable VAT).
No limitations on the text or your contact information.
Forget the physical limitations typically associated with printing centers and traditional business cards. With our service, that limitation doesn't exist, and you can add countless contacts and electronic information that you wouldn't normally be able to fit on a physical card.
Just like traditional business cards, our cards also have a front and a back where you can include all the text information you want. In the cover section, you can also add an original, high-resolution, photo-quality image to give your professional activity a distinctive look.
Small size and interoperability philosophy
The application has an extremely small size (between 450KB and 600KB of data) and allows the incorporation of the simplest interaction functions into an interactive micro-site with an adaptive visual format.
The interoperability of our service is a highly important feature, given that since our inception, the cards can be accessed using only a web browser (an internet browser). Web browsers are present in virtually all operating systems that allow access to the World Wide Web, and this is how we have remained current since 2010, without the use of proprietary app stores.
Furthermore, although since February 2018 we have been using almost entirely an "open-source" framework* that allows for simplified and more efficient access to all our cards, regardless of their format. The conversion was carried out relatively easily, thanks to the exclusive use of JavaScript, CSS and HTML5, and now also offers greater security in light of updates to JavaScript frameworks.
* We have switched to using Bootstrap® from Twitter Inc.® as our development framework and are now partially subject to an MIT and CC BY 3.0 license (see our terms of use).
Forget about proprietary app stores.
Blipcard® does not require the installation of a dedicated application because they function just like a website. Your internet browser is sufficient for access from any access point located anywhere in the world.
Use open-source code
Access is therefore universal and guaranteed to billions of users. As soon as they find you on the internet, your visitors can quickly view and interact with all the information presented on the card.
Your cards function just like an interactive website that automatically adapts to the screen sizes of your visitors' devices. Adaptive visual formatting features ensure they are displayed according to the screen resolution and aspect ratio of your users' devices.
80mm x 40mm
Physical version that folds in half (4cm x 4cm) with a 31.6% reduction in printed area.
85mm x 55mm
Traditional physical version (8.5cm x 5.5cm) for printing on paper.
Digital Version
Indexable electronic format with standard interactivity and compatibility functions.
Recycle your old cards.
Replace your old business cards with ours and take advantage of various special online usage benefits.
Blipcard® is a solution created in Portugal and continuously developed by Pulsaris since 2010. From its inception, the solution has proven to be a useful tool for promoting professional and business activities.
Business cards on the Internet
Our solution allows you to store all the information contained on your old business cards online and add much more relevant information.
Our service reflects a reality that was already anticipated in 2009, when we published the first experimental version of Cartão de Negócio (Blipcard).
This reality was the advent of Mobility.
The versatility of a mobile website
The cards function exactly like a website that automatically adapts to the screen sizes of its visitors' devices.
Adaptive visual formatting features ensure that they are displayed according to the screen resolution and physical aspect ratios of their users' devices.
We guarantee viewing on small screens (cell phones, smartphones), medium screens (tablets), large screens (laptops, desktop computers, game consoles), and "high-end" screens (HD TVs, 4K TVs, cinema projectors).*
* Virtual reality devices have limited experimental support.
Front and back layout
Our design simulates a sheet of paper, presenting a front and a back that are accessible from a menu displayed to users in the upper right corner.
Unlike a sheet of paper, our users benefit from virtually unlimited space to place any URI links and text content they want.
The addition of interactive information (URI) and text that can fill several dozen A4 sheets of paper does not significantly impact the loading time of our cards.
Small size application
The application has an extremely small size (between 450KB and 600KB of data*) and allows the incorporation of various interactive functions arranged in a visually adaptive website format.
* Approximate size (always smaller than a 1.44MB floppy disk). Our customers can add larger files to their document holder.
Multilingual format with the "Universal Blipcard"
The "blipcard universal" function allows you to use multiple foreign languages simultaneously, something you wouldn't be able to achieve with a physical card with limited space. With a click or a tap on the interactive "universal" button, your users have access to the languages you want to incorporate into your card. Currently, we have available on "blipcard.eu" and "blipcard.net" all the official languages of the European Union plus Mandarin, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, and Japanese.
This function is particularly useful at international conferences or when you are in transit at an airport, for example.
Service without advertisements.
The space on the card is yours for the duration of your subscription, so it wouldn't make sense to display advertising space for other businesses, some of which could even be competitors to your own. Rest assured, our service does not include advertising on the cards.
Furthermore, if you cancel your subscription, we will quickly remove the data from your card so that it is no longer available for indexing on the Internet. Please note, however, that this does not include the removal of information from search engines or other services that are not controlled by us.
* The value of your subscription is the main source of revenue and monetization for the space you use through our service.
Search Engine Optimization
The "cards" are programmed using HTML5 and JavaScript, similar to all websites regularly developed by Pulsaris. The development team uses W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards as a reference and follows all recommendations from the most popular search engines.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
We use search engine optimization (SEO) to ensure correct indexing and categorization by search providers. Using this methodology is extremely advantageous for all our users, as it is a crucial element in the effective promotion of their online presence.
Keep in mind that our strategy is long-term, so we don't resort to obscure techniques for projecting your online presence. Text content is extremely important, so you should prepare all relevant information and your original texts with special attention and dedication.
More environmentally friendly and with less waste of inorganic material.
Use this service as a complement to, or even a replacement for, paper or plastic printing. With the virtually unlimited number of cards and the total storage capacity of our service, the ecological footprint and inherent pollution can be considerably reduced compared to the traditional physical format.
Furthermore, a physical card always has to be handed to someone. The fact that it doesn't move from one place to another results in less car travel and less waste of physical material that ends up permanently stored "in a corner".
Imagine, in another example, that at a national congress you leave about 250 business cards on a table for people to pick up, and that all of them are picked up by the end of the day of presenting your professional activity.
Do you know how much material you ended up using at the end of that day?
Yes, you ended up using more than 1m² of printed paper or plastic, but...
Now add the monetary cost of your cards, an undetermined amount of printing ink, an unspecified amount of electricity used during the production of your printed paper or plastic cards, your travel expenses, and the travel expenses of the printing center suppliers. Now multiply that by the number of people who did exactly the same thing you did.
Using Blipcard is naturally more economical and certainly more environmentally friendly than the number of cards you would print within 365 days, if that amount exceeds your subscription fee.
* This offer is not valid if your annual printing expenses are less than the value of your subscription.
The European Green Deal
"The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people's health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no one behind"
European Digital Initiative
The European Union has always positioned itself as a driving force for sustainable development and as a guarantor of the rights of its citizens. The entities of the European Union are an active part of "digital integration" and encourage the use of new technologies to create employment and business opportunities among the more than 447 million people who reside within its borders.
* Information for contextualizing our digital offering in the European market. You should consult the official communication channels of the European Union located at: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en for detailed information on incentives and official initiatives developed for "European digital integration".
Digital economy and society statistics
Widespread and affordable broadband access is one of the means of promoting a knowledge-based and informed society. Broadband was by far the most common form of internet access in all EU Member States: it was used by 86 % of the households in the EU-28 in 2018...
... use of the internet while on the move, in other words when away from home or work, for example, using the internet on a portable computer or handheld device via a mobile or wireless connection. The figure compares 2013 data, when 43 % of individuals aged 16 to 74 within the EU-28 used a mobile device to connect to the internet, with 2018 data, by which time this share had risen to 69 %.
The most common mobile devices for internet connections were mobile or smart phones, laptops, and tablet computers.