Review QR Codes

Review QR codes.
Ask once, change where it goes later.

A QR code that opens your review page, on a card, a receipt, a window or a van. Point it at Google, TripAdvisor, Yelp or your own site today and somewhere else next year, without reprinting a thing.

01

Ask everyone, the same way

A printed review code is fine. Google documents making one. What is not fine is sorting people first: routing the happy ones to your public profile and the unhappy ones to a private form. That is review gating, and the penalty can reach every review on the profile, not only the ones collected that way.

Neutral ask. Everyone. Nothing in exchange.

Where the code should point

One code per destination. A dynamic code means none of these choices is permanent.

01

Google Business Profile

The default for anyone with a physical presence or a service area. Google publishes a short review link and a QR code for it, which you can use as the destination rather than sending people to search for you.

02

TripAdvisor, Yelp and the trade directories

Worth a second code rather than a second sign. Which one matters is industry-specific, and the honest answer is usually whichever one your customers already read.

03

Your own site

For a direct-booking property or a business that publishes testimonials. You control the page, so you control what happens after the scan.

04

A private feedback form

Its own code, shown to everyone, never as a fork in the review path. Useful for catching the broken thing before it becomes the review, as long as it is not conditional on how you expect someone to feel.

Review links change more than you think

This is the case for making a review code dynamic rather than encoding the URL into the pattern. The printed artwork is the expensive part, and it is the part you cannot change.

You move premises, or add a second location with its own profile.
You rebrand, and the old profile is no longer the one you want reviewed.
You decide the directory that mattered last year is not the one that matters now.
A platform changes its link format, which has happened more than once.

Where it goes matters more than the code

Scans cluster around the moment someone is already pleased and already holding their phone. Everything else is a code nobody looks at.

On the receipt or the invoice, where the phone is already out.
On the card you hand over at the end, not the one at the entrance.
By the door on the way out, at eye level rather than on the counter.
In the follow-up email as an image, which is the same code doing double duty.

Print it once.

Codes never expire, and the destination stays yours to change.

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