Firacard is an online group greeting card platform where users can create and send unique, customised greeting cards to loved ones all year round.
It is a thoughtful, environmentally friendly, and convenient alternative to paper greeting cards.
When asked why they decided to create Firacard, one of the founders Ronke said, “I love to declutter, and every month, I choose a room in my house to put through my decluttering process.
Sometimes in March, I chose my study as the room to be decluttered. My co-founder Femi and I have worked out of this room daily since the pandemic hit, and now it needed some TLC.
Decluttering the study included arranging my bookshelves, which looked quite unkempt, digging through old letters, papers and notes, and deciding what to keep and what to discard.
I found a pile of old greeting cards from loved ones, birthday cards and Christmas cards. I enjoyed reading them, but I also realised I couldn’t keep all of them as they were taking up preciously needed space.
I felt sad getting rid of them, I took pictures of a few of them, but it felt futile, purposeless, and almost silly. Sad right. I moped about them for a few hours, they came to my mind on and off, and I told Femi how I was feeling.
Femi is one for finding solutions to problems, especially when it concerns his wife who was moping around the house and burning the stir-fry on the stove.
He asked me how I would feel if I could see all the Christmas greetings from our neighbours and friends in one card; and if all my birthday wishes and kinds words could be on just one card.
A card that won’t take up any space in my house; that I can look at and read again anytime, anywhere.
You should have seen the smile on my face; it could light up the street for a week.
So, we went to work, Femi and I, putting our thoughts to paper, building a product for you and me.
We dedicated ourselves to building a unique product to help me receive and send personalised greetings to people I cared about in a way I was sure wouldn’t end up in a “going to trash” heap in their homes. It’s taken a bit of time, but we are delighted and excited about what we have created for you; for everyone”.
Femi and Ronke started Firacard because they wanted to create greeting cards that could be kept forever and revisited forever easily. An easy, affordable way for people to reignite connections and celebrate the people they love and care about.
Firacard is just that – a way to show your feelings, to celebrate special events, and people you care about, special events or not.
It offers users the opportunity to personalise the greeting cards they send with photos, GIFs, and videos and then send the card as an individual or as a group.
Firacard offers users 3 types of plans: a free plan, a premium plan and an infinity plan. The Firacard free plan allows users to send customised cards with up to 15 comments/posts/contributors.
Firacard solves several problems that makes it an innovative platform:
It solves the challenges of distance, convenience, and ease of sending greeting cards to loved ones and friends in far apart locations
It is a more affordable option than most paper greeting cards
It is stored online and downloadable, therefore removing the risk of loss and storage space that a paper greeting card presents.
It is an environmentally friendly option; unlike paper cards, a Firacard does not have any negative environmental effects such as flooding, loss of wildlife habitats and warmer local climate.
