NFC review cards for local business
Your best reviews are standing at the counter.
startapped is a matte black card that opens your Google review page on a customer's phone. They hold their phone to it, the page loads, they type. No app to download, no QR code to line up, nothing to explain.
The whole product, in one gesture
This is the entire
customer experience.
Not a funnel. Not an email sequence. A customer holds their phone near the card on your counter and your review page is already open.
Demonstration only. On a real card the tap opens your own Google review link in the customer's browser.
Setup, start to finish
Three things, once.
Send us your review link
Paste the Google link customers use to leave you a review. We write it to the chip before the card leaves the shop, so it works out of the envelope.
Put it where people pay
The stand lives beside the till. The cards go in the bill folio, the delivery bag, or the pocket of whoever says thank you last.
Ask while they're still here
"Mind tapping your phone here?" takes four seconds. The review gets written in the shop instead of never getting written at all.
Shop
Two objects. That's the catalogue.
All prices in CAD. Programmed with your link before dispatch, at no extra cost.
Why it works
The ask is the hard part.
This removes it.
Every business already knows it should collect reviews. What fails is the moment of asking — it's awkward, it's forgettable, and by the time the follow-up email lands the customer is somewhere else.
| Asking out loud | Printed QR sheet | startapped | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the customer does | Remembers later. Usually doesn't. | Opens camera, frames the code, waits. | Holds their phone to the card. |
| Where the review gets written | At home, days later, if at all | At the counter, if the code scans | At the counter, every time |
| Needs an app | No | Camera app | No |
| Works in dim light or a busy counter | — | Poorly — codes need focus and distance | Yes, contact is the trigger |
| Changing the destination link | — | Reprint everything | Rewrite the chip, keep the card |
| Ongoing cost | Staff attention | Ink and lamination | None — no subscription |
Specification
What you're actually buying.
- Format
- 85.6 × 54 mm — the same footprint as a bank card. The stand is A7-ish and sits at reading angle.
- Finish
- Matte black PVC with white and full-colour print. Fingerprints don't show the way they do on gloss.
- Chip
- Passive NFC. It draws power from the phone, so there is nothing to charge and nothing to replace.
- Phones
- Background tap on iPhone XR and newer. NFC-enabled Android phones. iPhone 7–X read it from the NFC tag reader in Control Centre.
- Read distance
- A centimetre or two. Contact is the point — customers understand "hold your phone here" without instruction.
- Link
- Rewritable. Move locations, change the destination, keep the same card.
- Taps
- Unlimited, forever. No account, no monthly fee, no per-scan charge.
- Custom print
- Your logo and colours on runs of 25 or more. Send artwork, we send a proof first.
Reviews calculator
Do the arithmetic yourself.
No industry averages, no invented benchmarks. Move the sliders to your own numbers and see what the maths says.
Reviews per month = customers per week × 4.33 × share who post. That's the whole formula.
From the counter
What owners say.
We kept meaning to ask people for reviews and never did. The stand asks for us. It's beside the debit machine, so it's part of paying now.
I hand a card with the bill. Half the table taps it before they stand up. The QR sheet we had before got ignored for a year.
Mobile detailing, so my counter is my trunk. Card goes in the customer's hand at handover and the review is written in the driveway.
Questions
Straight answers.
Put one on the counter this week.
Send your review link with the order and it arrives programmed. If it doesn't work on your first tap, we replace it.
Bulk and franchise pricing
Twenty-five locations or twenty-five hundred cards — tell us the count and we'll quote it.