Lead capture app.Any badge.No rental.

Three steps at the booth. Photograph the badge, add a tag or a note while the conversation is fresh, save. Tendro reads the printed text, enrichment fills in verified email, title, company, and firmographics, and the record writes to your CRM. The whole capture takes about ten seconds of booth time.

It is the same product on the web dashboard and the phone. The app is where scans happen; the dashboard is where the team reviews, dedupes, and reads event ROI afterwards. The full mechanism is on the Tendro homepage, and the sync path is walked through in real-time CRM sync for event leads.

Here is the honest limit. On most major shows the badge QR carries an organizer ID; only the organizer resolves it. That ID is a license plate with no meaning outside the organizer's database, which is why organizers can rent you a scanner. Tendro never needs to decode it. The name and company printed on the face are enough to start, and enrichment returns the rest.

That makes the same app work at IMTS, PACK EXPO, a regional distributor day, and the hotel-ballroom conference with badges printed at the front desk. Show-specific reads, including what the organizer scanner costs there, are on the IMTS page and the PACK EXPO page. The mechanism in full is in the universal badge scanner explainer.

One check before you fly: exhibitor contracts vary on third-party capture policies. Read yours.

Capture, notes, and tags never wait on the venue. The photo and its metadata sit in an on-device queue with a per-capture idempotency key, so a retry after a dropped connection cannot create a duplicate lead. The queue is stamped with the user who captured it, which matters on a shared booth phone that changes hands.

Enrichment and CRM sync run server-side once the upload lands, so the ten-second scan-to-CRM figure applies on a live connection. Offline captures sync the moment signal returns. Why the floor drops in the first place, McCormick Place's own 768 Kbps cap included, is in the offline badge scanner write-up.

Salesforce and HubSpot connect over native OAuth, with field mapping set per team and overridable per event. On a live connection a scanned lead is a record in the CRM in under 10 seconds, tagged with the event and routed to the owner.

Any other CRM with a public API is connected on request from the existing sync layer, typically live within a day. Ask from the chat bubble in the app before the show, and the connector is in place for your first paid event. The integration index lists what each destination receives.

Create the account at app.tendro.com, then open the app and log in. You get a workspace and a sample event. Point the phone at last year's badges and the business cards in your drawer, and grade the enrichment on your own stack. We do not publish a blanket match rate; industrial badges enrich differently than SaaS ones, and the desk test exists so you can measure instead of trust.

The trial covers capture and enrichment. CRM sync switches on with the first paid event, so field mapping gets tested against a real show rather than a sandbox.

There is no separate card mode. The OCR step is written to read either a badge or a business card, so a rep who is handed a card at the booth takes the same photo and gets the same enriched record. Handwritten notes on the badge or card ride along in the lead's notes.

The app is one codebase shipped to both stores, so the capture flow, the offline queue, and the sync status look the same on each. Reps install whichever store their phone has; the team lead sees every capture in one list.