Digital visiting card for doctors and clinics

Why do clinics use a digital visiting card?

Many calls to a clinic reception are the same few questions. What are the timings? Is the doctor in today? Where exactly is the clinic? Can I get an appointment? A paper card answers only some of them, and it is out of date the day your timings change. A doctor's digital visiting card answers all of them on the patient's own phone.

• A QR code at reception. Patients waiting for their turn scan it and save the clinic number in one tap, so they can find it when they need a follow-up.
• Timings that stay current. Change your OPD hours, add a Sunday clinic or note a holiday from the dashboard. The link and QR code stay the same, so the QR codes you have already printed keep working.
• Directions in one tap. New patients open the map from your card instead of calling the reception to ask for landmarks.
• Appointment requests without calls. Patients pick a slot within the working hours you set, and the request appears in your dashboard.

What should a doctor's visiting card include?

• Name, photo and qualifications — write your degrees exactly as registered, for example MBBS, MD (Medicine).
• Registration number — with the name of the medical council that registered you, written the same way as on your prescription pad.
• Speciality in plain words — general physician, paediatrician (child specialist), dermatologist (skin specialist). Patients look for the everyday words as well as the medical ones.
• Clinic timings — day by day, including evening OPD and the days you are not available.
• Main clinic address and map — use it as the card address so the directions button opens the right place.
• Other clinics and hospital attachments — if you sit at more than one place, add each one as a service with its days and timings, and add a custom link to its map location.
• Contact buttons — a number for calls and WhatsApp that someone at the clinic actually answers, and an email address.
• Consultation fee, only if you choose — some doctors show it so patients know before they come; many leave it off. It is your choice.
• Languages — mention the languages you consult in, and write the card in Hindi, English or both, which helps older patients.

Start from the Doctor template and replace the sample text with your own. Every plan includes all 40+ digital visiting card templates, so you can change the design later without changing your link.

How do appointment requests and working hours work?

In the dashboard you set the days and hours you see patients and the slots you want to offer. A patient opens your card, chooses a date and a free slot, and sends their details. The booking appears in your dashboard.

• Match the slots to your real OPD. If you see patients from 10 to 1 and from 5 to 8, offer those hours only, so nobody books a time when you are on rounds or in the operation theatre.
• Leave room for walk-ins and emergencies. Do not open every minute of the day for booking.
• Confirm each booking. Have your receptionist confirm requests by phone or WhatsApp, especially for first visits.
• Change hours when your schedule changes. Update your slots before a conference or a holiday; the card shows the new hours at once.

Patients who would rather write can use the enquiry form instead, and every enquiry is saved in your dashboard. Add a short line on your card asking patients not to type symptoms or test results into the form — they can bring those to the consultation.

How do you keep a doctor's card factual and within the rules?

India's National Medical Commission (NMC) sets the professional-conduct rules for doctors, and those rules restrict how doctors advertise. The safe approach is a clinic visiting card that informs rather than promotes:

• Stick to facts — name, qualifications, registration number, speciality, timings, address and how to request an appointment.
• Leave the testimonials section off. Every CardLinkr plan includes a testimonials section; on a doctor's card, do not add patient testimonials to it.
• No before-and-after photos of patients.
• No superlatives or promises — avoid words such as "best", "top", "guaranteed cure" or "permanent cure", and do not claim success rates.
• Use the gallery with care — photos of the clinic building, reception and waiting area help patients find you. Leave out photos of patients and procedures.

Check the current rules on the National Medical Commission website and with your State Medical Council before you share your card. Dentists and other health professionals have their own councils and rules. This is not legal advice.

Where should a doctor share the card?

• Reception standee — a small QR standee next to the token counter, with a line such as "Scan to save the clinic number and timings".
• Prescription pad and letterhead — print the QR code in the footer, so patients can check your timings before the follow-up visit.
• Clinic board and door — a QR code beside the timings board helps patients who arrive when the clinic is closed.
• WhatsApp to patients — send the link when a patient messages for timings or directions, and add it to your WhatsApp Business profile.
• Colleagues who refer patients — they can forward one link instead of typing out your address and timings.
• Email signature and social profiles — one link that always shows your current timings.

Test the QR code with two or three phones before you print. If you only want a fixed QR code that saves your contact details, the free visiting card QR maker makes one without sign-up. It cannot be edited after printing, though, and it does not show your timings or take appointment requests.

What does a doctor's digital visiting card cost?

Every new account starts with a 30-day free trial with Pro features and needs no payment details. After that, plans start at ₹999 a year or ₹249 a month, or ₹4,999 once for Lifetime.

• Every plan — appointments, the enquiry form, services, gallery and all templates.
• Pro, Business and Lifetime — a count of card views (not who viewed), your own QR code design, hiding the CardLinkr branding and card SEO settings.
• Business plan — three cards and your own domain, which suits a clinic with three doctors.

Pay online by UPI, debit or credit card or net banking. If you would rather not set it up yourself, add done-for-you setup to Pro at checkout and our team contacts you within 1 working day. Compare every plan on the pricing page, or read how to make a digital visiting card step by step.

Last updated 24 October 2026 by the CardLinkr team, LeadsIGo, Lucknow.