QR codes for Google Forms
Put your form on paper.
Sign-up sheets, feedback cards, registrations and RSVPs: one scan opens your form on a phone, so nobody has to type a long link.
What to put in it
- Your form’s link. In Google Forms, copy the responder link from the Share menu and paste it into the code.
- Or another form. Microsoft Forms, Jotform, SurveyMonkey or a sign-up page on your own website.
- Open to anyone. Let anyone with the link respond. Limiting people to one response, verifying their email addresses or asking for a file makes them sign in to a Google account first.
- A code for each place. Plans include unlimited codes, so give each sheet, table or classroom its own and compare their scans.
Why a dynamic code
Forms close, and terms and seasons start again. In Your codes, point the code at the next form, or at a page saying sign-ups have closed, and every sheet and poster already pinned up follows.
- Changes
- Change what it opens in Your codes. We check a new address or file first, usually within seconds, then every printed copy follows. You can undo a change.
- Scans
- Counted by day, device and city.
- If you stop
- Printed codes work to the end of what you paid for, and we email you 7 days before they would stop.
- Short link
- Never given to anyone else, so a printed code never leads to someone else’s page.
Sizing and printing
- Smallest size
- At least 1 inch wide in the style above. A logo or finer dots can make it bigger, so the designer and the download page work it out for your design.
- Distance
- People can scan a code from up to about 10 times its width away, so a sign-up sheet on a wall read from 3 feet away needs a code at least 3.75 inches wide.
- Contrast
- Keep it dark on a light background. The designer blocks colors too light to scan in print, even when they look fine on screen, and light codes on dark backgrounds.
- White margin
- Every file comes with a white margin as wide as 4 of the code’s dots. Keep at least 2 of them clear: don’t crop into it or print over it.
- On a screen
- A code shown on a projector or a TV is scanned from across the room, so show it large.
- Say what it’s for
- Put words on the frame, such as “Scan to sign up”, so people know what they’re filling in.
- Test print
- Before you print a lot, print one copy at the real size and scan it with more than one phone, from as far away as people will be.
More in printing and sizing.
Every scan counted. No one tracked.
Each dynamic code gets its own report: when it was scanned, on what, and roughly where. See which flyer, table card or window is working. We count scans, not people.
01 · Scan
Someone points their phone at your printed code.
02 · kifu.to
Sends them on at once, then notes the hour, the kind of device and a rough location.
03 · Your page
Opens straight away. Counting never slows a scan down.
04 · In your report within about two minutes
1,284 scans
Devices
- Phone 1,207 94%
- Tablet 51 4%
- Computer 26 2%
Top cities
- Austin, TX, United States 784 61%
- Round Rock, TX, United States 154 12%
- San Marcos, TX, United States 90 7%
Counted
- The hour
- Phone, tablet or computer, and its operating system
- Country, state and city, estimated
Never kept
- The IP address
- Cookies or device IDs
- Anything that says who scanned
Counts are kept for 2 years, then deleted. Wi-Fi and text codes aren’t counted: phones read them without asking us.