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The advantages of KADO vs HiHello

January 23, 2023
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Digital business cards have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more and more people rely on their smartphones and other mobile devices for communication and networking. 

A digital business card, also known as an electronic or virtual business card, is a way to share and save contact information in real-time quickly. They are customized with your unique information and can be as detailed or general as you wish. 

When you are ready to share it, you would provide a URL, a QR Code, or embed it on your webpage. The recipient would click the link or scan the QR Code and access all your contact information. Solutions like KADO also allow you to capture lead information and manage tasks, follow ups, and sync everything to your email, calendar and CRM.

Some digital business card apps require the recipient to have the same app, but others like KADO allow you to share your contact information without being dependent on the mobile app

There are several top business card providers in the market, but today we will focus on comparing KADO vs HiHello.

An intro to KADO

KADO Networks offers a tool that goes beyond a digital business card experience. Beyond a fully branded digital business card, with options to include personalized buttons, videos and social media, it also offers a fully integrated and end-to-end solution, allowing its users to:

  • scan paper cards
  • Capture lead data
  • Add notes and tasks on-the-go
  • Track analytics
  • Organize their contacts and follow ups through an interactive home and feed
  • Sync and integrate their contacts with Outlook, GMail and CRMs
  • Connect with your email and calendar to track relationships
  • Download your contacts LinkedIn profiles

KADO is quite popular amongst large scale networking professionals and enterprises. KADO's admin features with different layers of customization and integrations make it an app that is ready for small teams and complex and global organizations.

An intro to HiHello

HiHello has a free plan that allows you to design and personalize a free digital business card. You can share your HiHello card with any contact, even if they aren’t a user of their app. 

This app allows you to seamlessly manage your contacts and convert paper cards into digital contacts in your online address book for easy storage. 

It does also include media-rich content and personalized buttons, but under higher pricing tiers.

Some of its key features include

  • Easy To Use Card Templates
  • Share Digital Card With Anyone 
  • Business Card Scanner
  • Personalize Your Card
  • Lead data capture
  • Multiple digital business cards per person

A side by side comparison

Features

Overall, KADO goes beyond in terms of features available in its most basic tiers, while HiHello includes them in non-free or higher priced tiers. The table below shows a summary of the features

Table comparing KADO features to HiHello

Pricing

Both KADO and HiHello offer a free pricing tier. However, KADO's free tier includes many functionalities that are only included in HiHello under the priced tiers, namely:

  • Branded profiles / multiple colors
  • Video content
  • Personalized buttons
  • Unlimited paper scans
  • Note management
  • Personalized card links

In addition, HiHello's starting price is higher than that of KADO.

KADO Pricing

Table comparing pricings of KADO

HiHello pricing

Table comparing pricings of HiHello pricing

Conclusion

While both solutions are very complete, KADO's offerings go far beyond those of HiHello, offering more functionalities even under their free tier.

In addition, KADO's infrastructure allows for complex and growing enterprises that require of different levels of management around subentities, teams and privacy. While HiHello may be good for networkers getting started in the digital business card space, KADO may be better for large scale networking professionals and businesses.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you are hesitating, do not worry - we are here to explain everything you might want to know. Let us help!

  • A digital business card, also known as an electronic business card or virtual business card, is a way to share and save contact information in real-time quickly. Beyond contact information they can be customized with different designs and interactive elements

  • You may include your contact information, as well as links to your social networks and communication channels, personalized links and buttons, and video content. You may also edit the colors of your card and add an avatar and a cover.

  • KADO includes a free tier version where you will be able to create your digital business card top to bottom, including links to socials, buttons and video content! Only color designs are part of the paying tiers.

  • Every KADO digital business card has a QR code attached to it, which you can find on your app, under the exchange screen; or under the web app profile.

  • There are many digital business card providers out there, but KADO offers many benefits:

    • KADO allows to integrate videos and personalized buttons and links, even under the free tier
    • KADO offers many integrations, even native, such as HubSpot, Salesforce and Dynamics
    • We allow to fully design your digital business cards, adding all your preferred colors and company logo
    • KADO is ready for enterprises with complex organizational structures.

  • All data is encrypted and firewalled in AWS with no public IP address, and we offer role based, access control within your firm. Plus we are SOC2 ceritfied and GDPR compliant.

  • Yes, KADO is designed for enterprises with multiple offices and teams. Contacts, notes and other information are easily shared or restricted across the organization. Finally, KADO has a beautiful admin UI for managing all aspects of the account.

  • Currently, NFC cards are not publicly listed on the web, but you may request them on demand.

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