Digital business card glossary
The vocabulary of this field, defined plainly in English and Arabic. Written for people evaluating a platform rather than for people who already work in one.
Apple Wallet pass
بطاقة محفظة آبل
An Apple Wallet pass is a small signed file, with a .pkpass extension, that sits in the Wallet app on an iPhone alongside boarding passes and tickets. A business card pass carries the person's details and a scannable code, works with no signal, and can be updated remotely by whoever issued it.
Full definitionContactless business card
بطاقة العمل اللاتلامسية
A contactless business card is any business card handed over without passing a physical object between two people: by QR scan, NFC tap, wallet pass or link. The term covers a method of exchange rather than one technology, and it entered common use during the 2020 pandemic, when handing over paper briefly became socially awkward.
Full definitionDigital business card
بطاقة العمل الرقمية
A digital business card is a web page holding one person's contact details, shared instantly by QR code, link, tap or message. The recipient taps once to save the details into their phone's address book. Because it is a live page rather than printed ink, updating it updates every copy already shared.
Full definitionNFC
الاتصال قريب المدى (NFC)
NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a short-range radio standard that lets two devices exchange a small amount of data when held within a few centimetres of each other. In a business card, an NFC chip stores one web address and hands it to any phone that touches it. The chip needs no battery.
Full definitionQR vCard
رمز الاستجابة السريعة لجهة الاتصال
A QR vCard is a QR code that delivers a contact record. There are two kinds: a static one with the contact details encoded directly in the pattern, and a dynamic one encoding a short link to a digital business card that then serves the vCard. Only the dynamic kind can be changed after printing.
Full definitionvCard
ملف جهة الاتصال (vCard)
A vCard is the standard file format for a contact record, saved with a .vcf extension. It stores a person's name, organisation, job title, phone numbers, email addresses and photo in plain text that every contacts app on every platform can read. Saving a digital business card to a phone means handing it a vCard.
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