Blinq

Blinq (Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd, founded in 2017 in Melbourne, Australia) ranks, according to the provider, among the best-known digital business card solutions worldwide, with over 2.5 million users and adoption across a large share of the Fortune 500. The platform covers the full spectrum: free individual cards, SMB teams, and an IT-managed enterprise rollout with enforced SSO and SCIM provisioning. In the overall score, Blinq reaches 75 out of 100 points. This result is driven above all by top scores for user reviews (96/100) and feature scope (92/100), and held back by the comparatively low GDPR score (46/100) and the support-language score (56/100) - both points are especially relevant for German B2B buyers.

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

Data protection is Blinq's greatest weakness from a German perspective, which explains the low category score of 46/100. The controller and company headquarters are in Australia; hosting runs on Google Cloud Platform.

According to the privacy policy, personal data may be processed in the USA, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and Finland - meaning a guaranteed, dedicated EU-only or purely German data residency is not documented. Germany and other 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).

On the positive side is the security certification: 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 - only the cloud provider Google holds ISO 27001.

A data processing agreement (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 (DPA) 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 integration breadth is pronounced, with more than 20 native CRM connections: Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, Pipedrive, and Outlook are directly supported, complemented by Zapier (5,000+ apps) and an API.

One limitation remains: a dedicated MDM integration (Microsoft Intune / Jamf) is not documented - deployment on managed device fleets must be carried out via SSO/SCIM rather than via MDM. For enterprise customers, Blinq cites a 24-hour SLA, priority support, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager.