Near-field communication functionality for partial applications accessed over a network

A method of providing near-field communication (NFC) functionality for applications accessed over a network, comprising:

• executing, by a first NFC device having one or more processors, a first application installed on the first NFC device;
• scanning, by an NFC reader of the first NFC device and in connection with executing the first application, an NFC tag associated with a second NFC device;
• receiving data by the first NFC device and from the second NFC device;
• storing, by the first NFC device, the data;
• generating, by the first NFC device, a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a second application accessible over the network,
• wherein the second application omits NFC functionality, and
• wherein the URL includes one or more URL parameters containing the data;
• and
• launching, by the first NFC device and based on the URL, the second application,
• wherein the second application parses the one or more URL parameters to use the data.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first near-field communication (NFC) device, cause the device to:
• execute a web-browsing application installed on the first NFC device;
• scan, by an NFC reader of the first NFC device and in connection with the web-browsing application, an NFC tag of a second NFC device;
• receive data from the second NFC device and based on scanning the NFC tag;
• store the data in connection with the web-browsing application;
• generate a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a partial application and with the data,
• wherein the partial application is accessible over a network,
• wherein the partial application has reduced functionality compared to a full version of the partial application, and
• wherein the reduced functionality omits NFC functionality;
• detect a user interaction with a hyperlink presented in the web-browsing application and associated with the URL;
• and
• launch the partial application based on the user interaction with the hyperlink, wherein the partial application accesses the data via the URL.