NFC and Mobile.

What is NFC?

NFC stands for near field communication and it allows mobile devices to easily share/transfer data with other NFC-encoded devices in contactless modal within about four inches. It evolved from radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and is a special type of RFID.

How does NFC work?

Unlike Bluetooth, NFC doesn’t require any kind of pairing or device discovery to setup a connection for sharing data. With NFC, a connection is automatically started when NFC-support mobile device enters into a NFC Sticker that previously specified four-inch range. Once in range, the two party of device and sticker instantly communicate.

What is NFC Sticker

NFC Sticker is a microchip of NFC with an antenna, which can contain information that was pre-programmed. It can be read easily and perform certain tasks when scanned by an NFC-enabled mobile devices. NFC Sticker don’t require power and can be programmed with apps like FlashPromo Seller. For example, you can put one on your product at your local store, when shopper scans it with their smart phone, your product detail info will be showed on shopper’s phone and guide shopper to buy by a tap.

Program & Re-Program NFC Sticker

NFC Sticker can be programmed with some apps such as our FlashPromo Seller. NFC Sticker are re-programable by default and can be rewritten endlessly in theory. However, you can block them to be rewritten.

Which Mobile Devices have NFC?

With the upgrade to iOS 13, all iPhone 7 and newer have the NFC feature to read and code info for NFC Sticker. iPhone XS and later support background tag reading, without a specific application being open; previous models require a specific application to be opened.

Which NFC Stickers work with FlashPromo?

FlashPromo supports the most common types of NFC Stickers, as well suggest – NFC Sticker NTAG213 and NTAG216.

The both NTAG213 and NTAG216 are NTAG®, so compatibility is universal with NFC mobile devices. They are both equipped with 7-byte UIDs and support NTAG21x functions (such as password lock and scan counter). The difference is the memory: the NTAG213 is 144 bytes, while the NTAG216 is 888 bytes. For this reason, the NTAG216 chip is more expensive. If you have no particular needs to code a bit much info in sticker, the NTAG213 chip is enough for the most scenarios in mobile marketing with FlashPromo.

Estimated Cost of NFC Sticker

The common NFC Sticker is affordable now when using mobile marketing, depending on the amounts you ordered, for instance, the average cost of white NFC Stick NTAG 213 is around US$0.25 each or less as estimated. If you want to customized sticker like with your logo, is a bit more expensive.