Product
November 22, 2024

vCard Functionality: Create Lasting Connections

By
Wassim Achkar
Product Marketing Manager

At Letsignit, we know how essential it is for every employee to share their contact information quickly and easily. That's why we're introducing the vCard feature, enabling everyone to embed a digital business card directly in their email signature or generate a QR code accessible on mobile devices.

With this new feature, sharing contact information becomes as easy as sending an email.

Strategic Innovation to Meet Market Needs

“For the past year, we've been driving product innovation. With our technical foundation now both robust and ultra-secure, we’re able to explore more creative directions aligned with our core business. Following the launch of our AI assistant last May, the vCard feature reflects our strategic goal to diversify and better meet market needs."

Nicolas Lehovetzki, CPO de Letsignit. Nicolas Lehovetzki, CPO at Letsignit

The vCard (with its famous .vcf extension) is already widely adopted on platforms such as WhatsApp and LinkedIn to share business contact details quickly and efficiently. With a simple click, recipients can save contact information in their address books, regardless of the application (Outlook contacts, mobile, etc.).

How Does It Work?

How does a vCard work?
  • Then, the administrator can activate the vCard functionality for all employees.
  • Once activated, each employee can retrieve their unique, automatically generated vCard link or QR code, and share it easily!
  • To go a step further, this unique link or QR code can be integrated directly into each employee’s email signature, allowing email recipients to access their professional information with just a scan or click.

The Letsignit vCard: A Sustainable Step Forward

In addition to its practicality, the vCard represents a step towards less digital pollution, and therefore more sustainable communication. No more paper business cards that get lost or end up in the garbage can. Thanks to this feature, you can now contribute to reducing your employees' carbon footprint, while encouraging more eco-friendly interactions.

“Our social and ecological commitment is reflected throughout our company. The vCard was a natural choice for its sustainability benefits, aligning with our goal to provide tools that help reduce users’ carbon footprints—such as our ‘switch- to-teams’ feature and reply/forward signatures. We’re set to launch three new features in the coming months that will deepen this commitment at the core of our product.”

Nicolas Lehovetzki, CPO de Letsignit. Nicolas Lehovetzki, CPO at Letsignit

This ecological commitment is part of a broader strategy focused on sustainable innovation to address new business challenges. With Letsignit, you're already optimizing the primary channel for corporate communication: email.

More Than a Feature, a Competitive Advantage

V card advantages

By integrating the vCard functionality natively into our customers' email signatures, we’re providing a turnkey solution that is both simple and powerful. Unlike other tools that require adjustments or third-party platforms, our vCard functionality is fully integrated into our email signature management platform. Therefore, the experience remains intuitive and fluid.

An Opportunity to Strengthen Your Employer Brand

Beyond its ecological impact, our vCard feature also enhances your employer brand. By simplifying contact sharing, it increases employee accessibility and conveys a modern, professional image. Every interaction—whether in sales outreach, events, or internal communications—becomes an opportunity for meaningful engagement.

About the author
Wassim is the Product Marketing Manager at Letsignit, where he ensures our solution aligns with market expectations and fully meets the needs of businesses. As an integral part of the marketing team, Wassim ensures the product's value is effectively communicated across all departments and channels. Beyond his professional expertise, he plays a key role as a leader of the Letsignit soccer team, always ready to deliver precise and game-changing passes at just the right moment!
About Letsignit
Letsignit is an email signature management solution that empowers organizations to turn employee email signatures into a dynamic and personalized engagement channel for their brands and campaigns.

Frequently
asked questions

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Is it possible to track the number of clicks on email signatures?

Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.

You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.

If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.

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Can we add links to social networks, our website, and appointment-setting applications such as Calendly?

With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.

And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.

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Can employees update their signature information themselves (number, function, etc.)?

It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.

This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.

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Why it is important to standardize our email signatures on a large scale to ensure our identity and brand image?

It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!

A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.

With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.

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What is the user experience like for our employees?

What is the user experience like for our employees?

  • If you opt for the Letsignit Add-in for Outlook, they will have a dedicated space in their Outlook account where they will be able to view the signatures and campaigns assigned to them.
  • If you opt for the Letsignit Desktop APP, they will be able to preview all their signatures and campaigns in this space. If they want to change their default signature to another one when sending an email, this will be done in their signature library in Outlook.

In both cases:

  • They preview their signature before sending an email and choose from signatures assigned to them.
  • Based on the permissions granted, they will also be able to modify their personal information such as their name, position, or address in these spaces.

In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.

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Can my employees have multiple signatures available to them?

With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.

Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:

Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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