What Are NFC Cards Before You Order a Full Tier

Before you commit to a tier of 250, 500 or 1000 pieces, it helps to know exactly what you are buying. This article answers what are NFC cards, what is NFC review in practice, and what the blank stock from NFC BULK actually looks like on your desk once it arrives.

An NFC card is a plastic card with a small chip built in that, when tapped by a phone, opens a link without an app or a scan. NFC BULK sells these cards blank and in bulk, at prices from 6.99 euro per card at 5 pieces down to 2.00 euro per card at 1000 pieces, shipped from the Netherlands within 24 hours.

What Are NFC Cards, Exactly

An NFC card is a card, usually the size and thickness of a bank card, with a passive NFC chip laminated inside it. The chip carries no battery and no software. It only holds a small memory block that stores a link. When a phone with NFC enabled comes close, the phone reads that link and opens it, most often a Google review page.

That is the whole mechanism. There is no app to install, no code to scan, no Bluetooth pairing. The customer taps, the phone opens the link, done. If you want the technical detail on how the chip and the phone actually communicate, that is covered separately in How Do NFC Cards Work Before You Buy 1000.

For a reseller, the relevant point is different from the technical one: the card itself is generic. One chip, one card format, one function. What changes between orders is only the quantity and, if you choose to add it yourself, the print on the front.

What Is NFC Review, and How Is It Different From an NFC Business Card

NFC review is the specific use case where a tap opens a Google review page instead of a contact card, menu or website. The card is identical to any other NFC card, the only difference is which link is programmed into the chip.

An NFC business card, by contrast, usually opens a contact form or a personal profile, and is aimed at one person handing it to another. An NFC review card is aimed at a counter, a table or a till, where many customers tap the same card over the course of a day. Both use the exact same blank stock that NFC BULK ships. The distinction is in the link and the placement, not in the physical product. If you are weighing review cards against business cards for your own product line, that comparison is worked out in NFC Review Cards: A Reseller Product Explained.

Specification Overview of the Blank Stock We Ship

The stock that leaves the NFC BULK warehouse is one product in eight package sizes, not eight different cards. Every order, from 5 pieces to 1000 pieces, contains the same blank NFC card: no logo, no print, no packaging with a brand on it. What changes per tier is only the quantity and, as a result, the price per card.

The price per card drops from 6.99 euro at 5 pieces to 2.00 euro at 1000 pieces, a difference of 71 percent. That curve is the entire pricing logic of NFC BULK: no separate SKU per design, no minimum print run, just a lower price per card as the quantity goes up. You can see the same tiers laid out individually on the page for 5 wholesale price and margin and on the page for 1000 wholesale price and margin, or browse the full range under Starterbundels and Bulkbundels.

What a Tier Costs You and What You Keep

Because the cards arrive blank, your margin depends on what you charge once you have added your own print or your client's branding. As an example, and only as an example: if you buy 250 cards at 2.80 euro per card, your stock cost is 699.95 euro in total. If you then resell finished cards at an example price of 15.00 euro each, your gross result on that batch is roughly 2800.05 euro before your own printing and labour cost. That 15.00 euro is not a promise of what the market pays, it is a number you plug in yourself to check whether a tier makes sense for your pricing.

The same logic applies at any tier. At 1000 pieces, your stock cost is 2.00 euro per card, so the lower your resale price needs to be to stay competitive, the more a large tier protects your margin. Guidance on turning that stock into a resold product, without inventing numbers that are not yours, is covered in How to resell NFC review cards.

Blank Stock, Shipping and What Happens After You Order

Every card that leaves NFC BULK is blank, meaning there is no print, no logo and no packaging design on it. You either print the cards yourself with your own equipment or a local printer, or you sell them on as blank stock to a client who prints them. NFC BULK does not add a logo for you, and that is deliberate: it keeps the per-card price at the level shown in the table above instead of the higher price a printed single card usually carries elsewhere.

Orders are shipped from the Netherlands and leave the warehouse within 24 hours of being placed. There is no separate lead time for larger tiers, a 1000-piece order ships on the same schedule as a 5-piece order. That matters if you are quoting a client rollout with a fixed delivery date, since you are not waiting on a production run before dispatch.

Choosing Your First Tier Before You Commit

The smallest tier, 5 pieces at 6.99 euro per card, exists to let you test the chip, the tap behaviour and your own print process before you commit budget to a larger batch. Once that test works, moving to 50, 250 or 1000 pieces is a matter of matching the quantity to how many locations or clients you actually have lined up.

A full breakdown of how to size that first order, including what changes at each step of the staffel, is already written out in NFC Cards Bulk Order: Choosing Your First Quantity, so it is not repeated here. The short version: buy small to confirm the product works for your use case, then buy the tier that matches your actual pipeline, not the tier with the lowest price per card on paper.

Frequently asked questions

What are NFC cards used for besides reviews?

NFC cards can open any link, so besides Google reviews they are used for contact details, menus, Wi-Fi logins, portfolios and payment pages. The card and chip are identical in every case. Only the link stored on the chip changes, which means the same blank stock from NFC BULK can serve review cards, business cards or any other tap-to-open use case.

What is NFC review in a real business setting?

NFC review is the setup where a customer taps a card, usually at a counter or table, and their phone opens the business's Google review page directly, skipping the need to search for the business first. It works with any phone that supports NFC and does not require an app. The card itself is the same blank NFC card sold across every tier at NFC BULK.

Do the blank cards work without any printing?

Yes, functionally the chip works as soon as it is programmed with a link, regardless of whether the card has print on it. Many resellers sell the cards blank to clients who print their own design, while others add printing themselves before resale. Either way the underlying card and chip, and therefore the price per card in the staffel, stay the same.

What is the difference between buying 5 and buying 1000 cards?

The card is identical either way, only the price per card and the total invoice change. Five cards cost 34.95 euro in total, at 6.99 euro per card, while 1000 cards cost 1995.00 euro in total, at 2.00 euro per card. Most buyers start at 5 to test the product, then move up once they know how many they need.

Buying NFC cards in bulk

NFC BULK supplies blank Google review cards in bulk to resellers across Europe. Shipped from the Netherlands within 24 hours, with tier discounts up to 71 percent on larger quantities.

See the bulk bundles  ·  Start smaller  ·  Pricing and margins

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