QR codes for Google reviews, Wi-Fi, PDFs, profiles and payments

One page per destination. Each opens with the generator already set to the right type, then covers the link to copy, the setting that trips people up, where the app's own QR code lives and when to use it instead, and how big to print.

Google & documents

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QR code for a Google Form

Which Send link to copy, how to pre-fill answers per class or session, and what scanners see once the form closes.

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QR code for a PDF

A code holds a link, not the file. Where to host the PDF so anyone can open it, how to make it readable on a phone, and how to swap version 2 in behind the same print.

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QR code for a Google Doc, Sheet, Slides or Drive file

The one sharing setting that makes or breaks it, Viewer vs Editor, and why a Doc beats a PDF for anything that changes weekly.

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Social profiles

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QR code for Instagram

Opens your profile with the Follow button ready. Where Instagram's own code lives, when to make one here instead, and how to send a launch to one post.

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QR code for a Facebook page

Opens your page with Like and Message ready. How to find the page username, where a local business should print it, and how to send it to an event for a week.

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QR code for a YouTube video

Opens a video or channel in the YouTube app. Start at a timestamp for manuals, use the handle for follow placements, swap the re-upload in behind the same print.

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QR code for LinkedIn

Opens your profile with the Connect button. Where to find your slug, the last slide and the badge, and how LinkedIn's in-app code compares.

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QR code for TikTok

Opens your profile with the Follow button. Parcel inserts, merch tags and stall signs, and sending the same code to one video for launch week.

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QR code for Spotify

Opens a song, playlist, album or artist profile in Spotify. How it differs from a Spotify Code, which share link to copy, and where it earns listens.

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QR code for Linktree

Opens your link-in-bio page from print. Linktree makes a code too, so here is exactly what theirs does, what it costs to change it, and when to make one here.

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QR code for X (Twitter)

Opens your X profile from any camera. X's own code dies when you change your handle, which is the whole argument for printing a different one.

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Contact & messaging

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QR code for a business card (vCard)

A vCard code saves your name, phone and email to the scanner's contacts in one tap. How small it can go on the card, and when a link beats a vCard.

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QR code for WhatsApp

Opens a chat with your number, first message already typed. Number format, a different message per placement, and what WhatsApp's own code can and can't do.

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QR code for Telegram

Opens a chat, a channel or a group invite from print. How t.me links work, and why a printed invite link is worth making editable.

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QR code for a phone number

Opens the dialer with your number filled in. International format, where a call code beats eleven printed digits, and call vs text vs WhatsApp.

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QR code for an email address

Opens a new message to you with subject and first line filled in. Use the subject to know which flyer it came from, and what to do about tablets with no mail app.

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QR code for a text message (SMS)

Opens Messages with your number and the text already written. Keyword campaigns from a poster, a different keyword per placement, the format both phones read.

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Payments & reviews

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QR code for Google reviews

Opens the write-a-review box for your listing, not your profile page. Built from your Place ID, sized for receipts and counter cards.

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QR code for payments

Opens your Venmo, PayPal or Cash App page with the amount filled in. Which type for each app, and how to keep a counter code safe from a sticker over it.

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QR code for a coupon or discount

Scanning opens the offer with the promo code already applied. How redemption is actually tracked, and how to end a deal without collecting the paper.

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Events & invitations

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QR code for an RSVP

Guests scan the invitation and reply on their phone. What to link, what Zola and The Knot do and don't give you, and how to keep it working after the print run.

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QR code for a calendar event

Scanning offers to add the date to the phone's calendar, with no link and no internet. What phones do with it, and when a link is the better answer.

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QR code for a Zoom or Meet link

For the recurring link, the room door and the hybrid session. Includes the part most guides skip: a printed meeting link is a public one.

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Links & places

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QR code for a link or website

Any URL into a code, no signup. Why long links make dense codes, where to send people, and how to keep the print working when the link changes.

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QR code for Wi-Fi

Network name and password in the pattern; scanning offers Join. Which security type, where the password goes, and the phone's own share button.

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QR code for a location on Google Maps

Opens the pin in Google Maps with Directions one tap away. Address, place name or coordinates for the gate that has none, and what iPhone does with it.

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QR code for an app download

One code, both stores: iPhones go to the App Store, Android to Google Play, desktops to your page. Why a static code can only ever pick one.

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About the code itself rather than its destination: custom QR code design, QR code stickers and static vs dynamic.

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