YARD Cards: Smart Connection Profiles
Launching in Summer 2025, YARD Cards make it easy to connect with anything across communication barriers. You can use YARD Cards to exchange identities or to receive notifications via your preferred communication channel. Think of YARD Cards as business cards with superpowers which can be used to connect with people, businesses, and events across apps or in real life. But, that's not all.
Premium YARD Cards offer extensive customization and integration options, including the ability to capture a double opt-in, make contact data available to 3rd party software, adjust their look and feel, issue cards for employees, or manage cards via your existing HR software.
Whether you're exploring, informing, networking, collaborating, communicating, paying, or just staying in touch, YARD Cards help you connect on your terms. Reinvent the way you use your information.
Pre-Register for YARD Cards
It's like magic! Use your digital connection profiles for connecting with people and events. Fill out the form and get notified at launch.
Interact With Events
Currently, users can only discover events through calendars on websites. But, there will soon be an easier way to stay up-to-date about upcoming events:
Users can create YARD Cards for getting relevant notifications about upcoming business events through messengers, social media, or email. By connecting your 3rd party user accounts via YARD, you can upgrade your card with superpowers, for example to increase the quality of recommendations and interactions.
Ultimately, YARD aims to connect the right people with the right events.
Relationships of Cards
YARD Cards aren't just for individuals—they can represent companies, departments, teams, or even IT systems. These cards can form relationships with each other and include robust privacy controls.
Company managers have administrative rights over the business cards of their employees, enabling oversight and updates. Users can export contact data to any third-party software, with tools to manage its accuracy and lifespan.
Need to verify if someone is authorized to represent a company or still working for them? Just check the corresponding YARD Cards.
Cards Can Interact
Every YARD Card is designed to work with your preferred communication channels and will help you to get around.
- Sign in with your email address or your favorite social login service, such as Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc.
- Use any of the products of YARD through websites, email, social media platforms, and/or your preferred messengers.
- Connect your Yard Card to common payment providers, such as PayPal or Stripe. Register to events in seconds by passing your profile to them.
- Hook up identity and authentication systems to your card, like eIDAS or LEI.
- Built for doing business: double opt-in management tracks who you connected with, how, why, and when—before storing the data using your profiles or your preferred 3rd party software.
The fastest way to create your cards is to sign in via LinkedIn. This way your profile data is read and your cards will be created in seconds.
Free vs Premium Cards
By default, your YARD Cards are free and allow you receive alerts about upcoming business events in your areas of interests. These cards come with general functionality, which includes to share your contact information with others.
You can upgrade to Premium YARD Cards, which will give you superpowers:
- customize the functionality of the community profile;
- customize the look and feel of the card;
- connect 3rd party services via API connectivity;
- remove the YARD branding;
- contact the 24/7 customer support;
- request features for free.
Upgrade your experience. Smart, simple, yours.
Premium YARD Cards
YARD Cards allow individuals, teams, and organizations to connect across communication barriers. You can use YARD Cards to exchange identities or to receive notifications via your preferred communication channel. Premium YARD Cards come with a lot of customization options and they let you also change the look and feel.
For example, users of Premium YARD Cards can define where to save their data, for example to their preferred CRM system. Premium YARD Cards also let organizations control the issuance of business cards of their employees and manage contact data of associated cards. Business cards can issued through HR management software, which can be connected to YARD.
If business card holders and company card managers verified their contact data, identities can be marked as verified and thus trustworthy.
Example Cards
To give you an introduction of YARD Cards look and work, here some examples:
- Samuel Tucker (a non-verified natural person)
- Sören Eversmeier (a hard-verified natural person)
- CoreLedger AG (a hard-verified company)
- Udi Wizardheimer (a soft-verified pseudonymous person)
- *3e2c6c11 (an API access endpoint user)
Needless to say, that we're currently working on enabling cards for you.
