QR Codes on Receipts
The receipt is your last word with every customer. Say something useful.
Every transaction ends with a strip of paper that says nothing but numbers. A QR code turns that dead space into the highest-volume touchpoint your business owns: a review ask while the experience is minutes old, a feedback survey that catches problems before they become one-star reviews, a next-visit offer that gives the receipt a reason to survive the parking lot. Most POS systems print a static footer image - make it a dynamic code and this month's review push becomes next month's loyalty signup without touching the POS again.
Why use a dynamic QR code for this
Reviews at transaction speed
The receipt code lands on your Google review page minutes after the experience - volume no counter sign matches.
Complaints before reviews
Route the code to a quick survey and unhappy customers tell you privately instead of publicly.
POS set-and-forget
Upload the code image to the POS footer once; every future campaign is a destination edit, not a POS project.
How to set it up
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Choose the destination: review page, survey, offer, or loyalty signup
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Generate a dynamic QR code in QRmkr and add it to your POS receipt footer
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Rotate destinations by campaign - the printed footer never changes
Before you print it
If your receipts code may ever need to point somewhere else, create it as a dynamic QR code you can edit after printing. The printed pattern never changes; only the destination behind it does.
Receipts FAQ
Our POS only takes a static footer image - is that a problem?
No, that's the ideal case for a dynamic code: the image stays fixed in the POS forever while the destination changes behind it whenever you like.
Review page or survey - which first?
If your rating is strong, go straight to reviews. If you're rebuilding a reputation, survey first: it catches problems privately and you can flip the code to reviews once the experience is consistent.
Thermal receipt paper prints light and fades - will the code still scan?
It scans if you keep it simple and big enough. Thermal heads render fine detail poorly, so use a short destination, print the code at least 2 cm square, and leave clear white space around it rather than butting it against the footer text. Pull a receipt off the roll and test it with a phone before you commit, and retest when you change paper suppliers.
Top or bottom of the receipt for the code?
Bottom, under a single line saying why to scan, is what most people expect and it keeps the total where the customer looks first. What matters more than the position is the margin: keep the code clear of the tear line and of any coupon block, because a cut edge through the pattern kills the scan. One code and one ask per receipt beats three competing ones.
Is this QR code free to make?
Yes. Static QR codes are unlimited and free, with no watermark and no card required. A dynamic code - the kind you can edit after printing - is included free to try, and unlimited dynamic codes are part of Pro at $12/month.
General questions about how QR codes work, what they cost and how to print them are answered on the QR code FAQ.
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