How QR Code World works.

What goes into your code

Without an account you create static codes for four kinds of content: a link, a text, your contact details or access to your Wi-Fi. The content sits right in the code. It works without us and never expires, but you cannot change it once it is printed.

In a free account your codes become dynamic. There are three types: a redirect to any website, a page of your own with text and an image, or a business card that offers “Save contact” when scanned. You can switch the type later, and the printed code stays the same.

Change the target without reprinting

A dynamic code only contains a short link on qr.bequ.io. Whoever scans it is taken through this link to your current target. Change the target under “My codes” and every code you have already printed leads there right away: flyers, posters and packaging stay as they are.

Because the code only carries the short link, it has few, large dots. That makes it easy to read on fabric, small labels and from further away.

How to design your code

Choose from 28 patterns for the dots and 52 shapes for the three corners, separately for frame and centre. Add your own colours or a gradient, a transparent background, your logo in the middle and 6 frames with your own text above or below the code. All of it without an account too.

You see every change in the preview right away. Below it, the generator checks that the code stays easy to read: too little contrast between code and background or a logo that is too large is flagged before you print. With a logo it picks the highest error correction by itself, so the phone can fill in the covered parts.

Your own templates

In your account you save a design you like as a template of your own and reuse it for the next code. That way all your company's codes look the same. A free account holds 1 template, Plus 10 and Business 50.

What the statistics show

We count every scan of a dynamic code. You see scans per day, countries, devices, browsers and operating systems, and the latest scans. That tells you which flyer works and where your codes get scanned.

We only store shortened IP addresses. We never learn names, phone numbers or other details of the people who scan.

Print files for every size

PNG from 256 to 4,096 pixels at 300 dpi for screens and the web, SVG as a vector for any size, and a PDF in CMYK for the print shop, 1 to 200 cm wide. Black in the PDF is pure black, so it prints cleanly without a colour fringe. With or without an account.

How large your code needs to be depends on the distance it is scanned from. The generator suggests suitable sizes; more in the guide to QR code size.

Short link and account

Every dynamic code leads through a short link on qr.bequ.io. In a free account it gets a random ending. With Plus and Business you choose the ending yourself, for example qr.bequ.io/yourname, 3 to 13 characters long.

In a free account you create up to 3 codes, each with every feature. If you delete a code, its place is free again 30 days later.

In a free account every dynamic code is active for 7 days from creation. After that it is paused until you choose a plan; the short link and content remain, nothing is deleted. You get an email two days before. With Plus and Business your codes run without this limit.

Security and privacy

We check every new target, and all targets once a day, against Google's Web Risk service for malware and scam sites. That way we spot known dangerous targets, and the address qr.bequ.io stays trustworthy for every printed code.

Without an account we do not store the content of your codes: target, contact details and Wi-Fi password only live in the image you download. Our server is in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.