Create QR codes to drive traffic to pages on your site

Quick Response codes (QR codes) are scannable barcodes that direct people to pages on your website. Instead of clicking a link or typing in a URL, visitors can scan a QR code with their smartphone, which opens the linked page in a mobile browser. This is a great way to drive traffic to digital menus, donation pages, and digital product signup pages.

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Create a QR code

You can create a QR code for any layout page on your site. It's not possible to create QR codes for collection pages.

1. Open the pages panel.
2. Click to open the page settings for the page you want to create a QR code for.
3. In the General tab, make any final changes to the page’s URL slug. QR codes will break if you update the URL slug after creating the code.
4. Switch the toggle on beside QR code.
5. Click Download QR code.

QR codes download as .png files, which you can add to printouts and fliers.

To hide QR codes from page settings, switch the toggle off beside QR code. The page’s QR code will continue to work. You can switch the toggle on again to create QR codes in the future.

Update a QR code

If you update page URLs as you edit your site, you'll need to create new QR codes to replace any existing ones using the former URL.

1. Return to the area where you created the QR code.
2. Make any final changes to the page’s URL slug.
3. Click Create new code.
4. Click Download QR code.
5. Replace any marketing material that includes the old link. These links will no longer work.

Tip: If you change a page slug back to the version connected to a QR code, the original code will start working again.

Fix broken QR codes

Because QR codes are static, they will break if you update the linked page slug after you generate the QR code. There are a few ways to resolve the issue:

• Revert the page’s URL slug to the original
• Update the QR code and replace it in existing marketing materials
• Create URL redirects to route visitors to the new link when they attempt to visit the old one