QR CODES
A QR code for anything you publish
Every published link can hand you a QR code for it, so the same page works on a poster, a table card or a slide without a third-party generator in the middle.
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Plan availability
Which plans include qR codes
QR codes are included on every plan, including the free one.
- Free Included
- Starter Included
- Pro Included
- Business Included
- Enterprise Included
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What it does
A code that points at something you control
The code encodes your published address. Because that address never changes when you re-publish, the printed code does not go stale.
Publish a page, a PDF or an image, and the site gets a QR code for its address. You download it and put it wherever a printed thing needs to reach a screen: a menu card, a poster, an exhibition label, the last slide of a deck, a parcel insert. The code carries only the URL, so scanning it opens the page in the phone's own browser with no app and no intermediate redirect page.
The reason this is worth having next to the hosting rather than as a separate tool is the update path. Free QR generators encode whatever URL you paste, and if that URL later has to change, every printed copy is dead. Here the address belongs to the site, not to the file, so publishing a new version replaces the content behind a code that is already on a thousand table cards. If the thing you are printing is a document, PDF to QR code is the same idea with the document workflow around it.
How to use it
Three steps
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Publish the page or file
Drop in the HTML, the PDF or the image and let it go live. The address you get is the one the code will carry.
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Download the code
Open the site in the dashboard and take the QR image. It is a plain image file, so it drops into any layout tool.
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Print it and keep the page current
Re-publish whenever the content changes. The code keeps working because the address did not move.
Where it earns its keep
When people reach for this
A menu that changes weekly
Print the code once, laminate it, and update the menu page whenever the kitchen does. QR code menu covers the restaurant version, including what to do about the printed copy you still have.
A poster or flyer that has to lead somewhere
An event page, a price list or a set of directions is easier to scan than to type. The page can carry more detail than the poster has room for.
A document handed out at a stand
A spec sheet or a brochure as a code beats a stack of paper, and you can see afterwards whether anyone actually opened it if analytics is on.
The alternative
Doing this without us
Free QR generators are everywhere. The differences that matter show up after the thing is printed.
| Droply | A free online QR generator | |
|---|---|---|
| Changing the destination later | Re-publish the page; the code is untouched. | Not possible unless you paid for a tracked code. |
| Who owns the link | You do. The code encodes your address directly. | Often a shortener domain that can expire or be blocked. |
| What happens if the service closes | Nothing. The code points at your site, not at us. | Every printed code stops resolving. |
| Where the page itself lives | Here, published in the same step. | Somewhere else, arranged separately. |
Compared against the general category of free QR generators rather than one named product, because the behaviour above is what they have in common. Checked September 2026.
When this is not the right tool
This is a code for a link you host here. It is not a QR product in its own right.
- There is no scan counter on the code itself. What you get is ordinary page analytics for the page it opens.
- There is no logo-in-the-middle or colour styling. It is a plain, high-contrast code, which is the version that scans reliably.
- It encodes a URL. Codes that carry a Wi-Fi password, a contact card or a payment string are a different job.