What the contact card is
Every artist with an active SMS number gets a contact card at:
bckstg.co/[your-slug]/contact.vcf
When a fan taps it in a text from you, their phone offers Create New Contact, filled in with your name, your BCKSTG number, your profile link and your profile picture. That is the identity fans save for the texts you send them.
What goes into it
The card is generated from three things on your profile:
- Name (your artist name, exactly as it appears at the top of your page)
- Profile photo (the same image that shows in your dashboard avatar and on your public page)
- Your assigned SMS number (set by us when you got your number; you cannot change it from the card)
There is no editor for the card itself, by design: it is your profile identity, so if it looks wrong, you fix it on your profile.
How to change it
Go to Profile and change your photo or your name. The card regenerates automatically on the next request, with no action from you. A new photo or name shows up on the card within a few minutes.
If you want to preview what fans see, open the URL above in your browser. The download is the same vCard fans receive in a text.
When fans get it
The intro fires automatically in three situations:
- At activation: the moment your number goes live, every fan who had already opted into your texts receives one intro with a link to your card. One-time, free.
- At new opt-in: any fan who opts into your texts from now on gets the intro right away, free. If it's their quiet hours, it waits until 8 AM their time.
- When a fan texts you first: they get your card back once, free.
Fans who joined your texts before you had a number do not get a retroactive intro a second time. The intro for them happens at activation.
You get it too
When your number activates, we also subscribe your own consented platform-texts number to your fan list, so the activation intro reaches you the same way it reaches every fan. From that point forward, every blast you send to your list also reaches you. You see exactly what fans see, from your own number. Standard credit costs apply to your own copy of each blast; we treat you like any other subscriber.
If you want to stop receiving copies of your own blasts, unsubscribe yourself in your fan list. The intro you already received is yours to keep.