Blinq

Blinq (Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd, founded in 2017 in Melbourne, Australia) ranks, with over 2.5 million users according to the provider and adoption across a large share of the Fortune 500, among the best-known digital business card solutions worldwide. The platform covers the full spectrum: free individual cards, SMB teams and an IT-driven enterprise rollout with enforced SSO and SCIM provisioning. In the overall score, Blinq reaches 76 out of 100 points. This result is driven above all by top marks in user ratings (96/100) and feature scope (92/100), and is held back by the comparatively low GDPR score (54/100) and the support-language score (56/100); both points are particularly relevant for German B2B buyers.

In context, this means: technically, Blinq is a mature, widely tested product with one of the best external ratings profiles in the test field, but it is an internationally oriented provider without any German legal or data protection connection. Anyone evaluating Blinq has to weigh the strong product side against the missing EU/DE data protection framework.

Blinq's greatest weakness from a German perspective lies in data protection, which explains the low category score of 54/100. The controller and company headquarters are in Australia; hosting is on the Google Cloud Platform.

According to the privacy policy, personal data may be processed in the USA, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and Finland, so a guaranteed, dedicated EU-only or purely German data residency is not documented. Germany and further EU regions are indeed part of the GCP footprint, but without contractually assured EU data storage; transfers outside the EEA are safeguarded via standard contractual clauses (SCC).

The security certification is a positive: Blinq is SOC 2 Type II certified (managed via Vanta, annual third-party audit) and declares GDPR compliance including a DPO contact. However, Blinq does not hold its own ISO 27001 certification; ISO 27001 is held only by the cloud provider Google.

A data processing agreement (AVV/DPA) for business customers is not publicly available; the documents in the Vanta trust center (trust.blinq.me) can only be viewed upon request. For comparison, providers with exclusive Germany hosting and a freely accessible data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR, such as the portal operator oneVcard, meet this checkpoint more easily by design.

On the enterprise side, Blinq is strongly positioned, which is reflected in the high category scores for team/admin management (90/100), feature scope (92/100) and enterprise integration (80/100). Blinq for Teams/Enterprise offers enforced SSO (SAML, including Okta and Azure AD) as well as SCIM provisioning via Okta and Entra for automated on- and offboarding.

Added to this are a central admin console, centralized brand control, analytics, lead capture, bulk provisioning and centralized email signature management. The breadth of integrations is pronounced, with more than 20 native CRM connections: Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, Pipedrive and Outlook are supported directly, complemented by Zapier (5,000+ apps) and an API.

One limitation remains: a dedicated MDM integration (Microsoft Intune / Jamf) is not documented; deployment to managed device fleets has to go through SSO/SCIM instead of MDM. For enterprise customers, Blinq cites a 24-hour SLA, priority support and a dedicated customer success manager.