# ScanBizCards review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Business card and conference badge scanner that exports leads to CRMs Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. ScanBizCards is a phone app that reads paper business cards and conference badges with optical character recognition and saves them as contacts. Scanned contacts can be exported to CRMs such as Salesforce, and cards can also be sent to a human transcription team. A per-user team plan adds an admin panel, lead assignment and batch export. - **Category:** Digital Business Cards - **Made by:** ScanBiz Mobile Solutions LLC - **Website:** https://www.scanbizcards.com - **Runs on:** iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a digital card to share, as the site describes no NFC card or shareable profile. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, ScanBizCards has a free plan, and paid plans start at $100 per user / year. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Trail-Blazer: free app for scanning business cards and conference badges, adding them to the address book, and 2 human transcriptions (one time only). - **Free trial:** The site advertises a free 14-day trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Trail-Blazer | $0 | Free for life: card and badge scanning, address book export, and 2 human transcriptions, one time only. | | Sales Ninja | $100 per user / year, for teams of up to 50 users | Adds CRM export, cloud backup, email signature contact capture, an admin panel, lead assignment, batch export, custom fields and 100 human transcriptions per user per year. | | Growth Hacker | Custom | For more than 50 user licenses, quoted by sales. Includes customized human transcription bundles and personalized onboarding. | Read from https://www.scanbizcards.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ScanBizCards before buying. ## Key features - **Card and badge scanning:** Photograph a business card or conference badge and the app reads it with OCR. Batch scanning of several cards is supported. - **Human transcription:** Scanned cards can be transcribed by a person. Sales Ninja includes 100 per user per year, and extra credits are sold in one-time packs. - **CRM export:** Contacts export to Salesforce and other CRMs, or as CSV. Direct scan-to-CRM and batch export are listed under the paid plans. - **Email signature capture:** Saves and updates contacts from the signature block of emails. Listed with the paid features. - **Intro email and vCard:** Sends an introduction email with a vCard and a photo after a scan. - **Scan API:** The business card and badge scan APIs can be connected to a company's own systems. ## Good for - Sales teams collecting leads at trade shows and conferences - Companies that want scanned contacts to land in Salesforce - People who want a person to check difficult cards ## Worth knowing - It is a scanner and contact manager, not a digital card you share: its site describes no NFC card or shareable profile page. - CRM export, cloud backup and the admin panel are on the paid Sales Ninja plan; the free plan only adds contacts to the address book. - Human transcription is limited: 2 on the free plan (one time only), 100 per user per year on Sales Ninja, and extra credits are one-time packs such as 100 for $25. - Sales Ninja covers teams of up to 50 users, and the site lists only iOS and Android apps. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. ScanBizCards scans business cards and event badges and exports leads to CRMs, with human transcription for the cards the OCR misses. The free plan only adds contacts to your address book, and Sales Ninja is $100 a user a year with a limit on transcriptions. - **Value for money: C.** Sales Ninja is $100 a user a year, about $8.33 a month, which is just above the $8 where this category's dearer quarter starts. Extra transcription credits are one-time packs such as 100 for $25. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The free plan is free for life and covers scanning cards and badges into the address book. It includes only 2 human transcriptions, one time only, and CRM export is paid. - **Features: C.** Scanning, batch scanning, human transcription, CRM export and a scan API. It's a scanner, not a digital card you share, and CRM export, cloud backup and the admin panel are paid. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Paid use means connecting a CRM and setting up an admin panel and lead assignment. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** iPhone and Android apps only, with an API and CRM export. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ScanBizCards's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among digital business cards - ScanBizCards's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 3 of the 13 other digital business cards we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 6 of 13) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $8.33 a month when paid by the year for each person, against a middle price of $5.71 for the category: 8 of the 9 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/business-cards ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of ScanBizCards you could make: digital business card. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 13 other digital business cards grade higher. It costs $100 a year. - You could make: Digital business card: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Salesforce among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Salesforce **Tags:** Digital business card, AI features, Transcription, Public API ## Alternatives - [CamCard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/camcard): Business card scanner and digital business card with CRM sync. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/camcard-vs-scanbizcards) - [Haystack](https://toolgpa.com/tools/haystack): Digital-only business cards with directory sync for large companies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/haystack-vs-scanbizcards) - [HiHello](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hihello): Digital business cards, email signatures and lead capture for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hihello-vs-scanbizcards) - [Blinq](https://toolgpa.com/tools/blinq): Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture. 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