FreeGCNA business network
A free digital business card with QR code for trade shows and events
Paper business cards end up in a drawer, and the details on them age. GCNA gives every member a free digital business card with a QR code: one scan, and the contact is saved or connected for good.
In short
- Free with every GCNA account: a card page on gcn-alliance.com and a QR code for your phone or your printed card.
- A scan offers two actions: save the contact as a vCard, or connect and exchange cards.
- Connected contacts receive your later changes by email, and in Odoo automatically.
- The card page shows only the details you marked as public; you can replace the QR code at any time.
What is the GCNA business card?
It is your business card as a web page at gcn-alliance.com, with a QR code that points to it. It is part of the free GCNA business network, the basic service of the Global Communication Network Alliance. You fill it in once at app.gcn-alliance.com under "Business card":
- name, role and company
- business email and up to four phone numbers, labelled work, mobile or fax
- website and address
- a photo and your company logo
For email, phone numbers and address you decide whether they appear on the public card page. Your connections always see your full card.
How do I use it at a trade show?
Show the QR code on your phone, or print it on your paper card or your booth material. The person you meet scans it with their phone camera and sees your card. They do not need an app or an account.
What can the person who scans it do?
- Save contact. Your card downloads as a vCard, which every phone and address book can import.
- Connect. They enter their name, email, company and phone. GCNA emails them a link to confirm their address. Once they confirm, you receive their details, and from then on you both get each other's updates.
Connecting is what makes the digital card better than paper: when you change your phone number or move to a new role, everyone you connected with receives the new details by email with a fresh vCard. If they use GCNA's Odoo Phone System, their Odoo contact updates itself.
What if I hand out my code too widely?
Replace it. A new QR code retires the old one at once; anyone who opens the old code learns that the card no longer exists there. Your connections are not affected.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The digital business card with QR code is part of the free personal service, like connections, update emails and the mapping to your organisation. Only enterprise features for organisations and AI agents are charged, per user or agent and month, as the price list states.
Questions and answers
Does the person scanning my QR code need an app?
No. The code opens your card page in the phone's browser. Saving the contact downloads a vCard; connecting needs only their name and a confirmed email address.
What does the public card page show?
Your name, role, company, photo, logo and website, plus email, phone numbers and address only if you marked them as public.
Can I change my QR code?
Yes. Replacing the QR code retires the old one immediately; your existing connections stay.
Read next: GCNA's free business network: contacts that keep themselves up to date · Odoo contacts that update themselves: GCNA connections in the Odoo Phone System