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Design a smart link's QR code: 20 starting designs, patterns, eyes, colours, frames, words, the centre logo, the scan meter, and downloads as PNG, SVG or PDF once the link is live.
Every smart link comes with a QR code. Scan it with a phone camera and WhatsApp opens a chat with you, message already typed. The QR code designer lets you make it look like your business, tells you whether it will scan, and gives you files for a screen or a printer.
You design the code on the QR code step when you create a link, and on the link's QR code tab afterwards. Changes on the tab save on their own a moment after you make them ("Saving", then "Saved"). If a save fails, Not saved shows with Try again.
A QR code always points at its smart link, never at WhatsApp directly. Change the design, the message or what the link sends whenever you like: codes you've already printed keep working.
The code sits on one side, with two views: Code (the code on its own) and On a phone (the code on a printed card, seen through a phone camera). Under it is the scan meter. Beside the code are Undo (Ctrl + Z), Redo (Ctrl + Shift + Z) and Export.
The other side holds the designs to start from (Starting designs, and your team's Saved designs and Brand kit), then six tabs:
On a phone, the tabs are buttons under the code (with Customise), and each opens its options in a sheet from the bottom of the screen.
While you create a link, its six-character code is picked when you save, so the designer shows a sample code in your design (with an ending-only address, or once the draft is saved, it's already your real code). Downloads open on the link's QR code tab once the link is live.
20 finished designs: ten for different kinds of business and ten looks. Every one is high contrast and checked to scan. Pick one, then change anything you like. Picking a design keeps the printed width you set on the scan meter.
Designs your team saves, and your brand kit, sit right under the starting designs. See Saved QR designs and brand kit.
Every colour picker also shows your brand kit colours, once your team has saved one.
A dark code on a light background is the safest choice. Some phone cameras can't read a light code on a dark background at all, and the scan meter warns you when you try.
A frame with a short call to action gets more scans. Pick one of twelve frames, or No frame:
Simple border, Card, Bottom banner, Top banner, Speech bubble, Phone, Ticket, Round badge, Photo print, Label tag, Ribbon and Corners.
On the Text tab, write the words for the frame, up to 40 characters a line, or tap an idea: "Scan to chat", "Chat with us on WhatsApp", "Order on WhatsApp", "Book on WhatsApp", "Scan for the menu" or "Get a quote". Card, Phone and Ticket frames have room for a second line. Pick the Font and the Text colour there too. There are 14 fonts, each shown in its own style in the list: Clean, Classic, Friendly, Typewriter, Narrow, Modern, Thin, Soft modern, Old style, Elegant, Slab, Poster, Script and Handwritten. They use the fonts already on your device, so a font can look slightly different on another phone or computer. Test-scan before you print.
New codes have the Avox mark in the middle, in its own colours. It's yours to change: on the Centre tab, pick:
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image;Size and shape sets how big it is and its shape (Circle, Rounded, Square), with an optional Backing plate behind it in a colour of your choice. A centre graphic covers part of the code, so Avox keeps it inside what the repair level can rebuild: if you ask for more, it's shown a little smaller so the code stays readable.
An uploaded logo is kept with the design. A logo from a link has to load when you download: if it can't, it's left out of that file and the designer tells you, so upload the file instead.
The scan meter scores your design from 0 to 100 and says it in words: Scans easily, Should scan well, Might be hard to scan or Likely won't scan. Open it to see each check, marked as fine, worth a look or needs fixing, with plain advice for anything that isn't fine:
Set Printed width (15 to 300 mm) to the size you'll really print. The meter then says how big one dot prints and roughly how far away the code scans from. As a rule of thumb, a code scans from about ten times its own width, so a poster across a room needs a bigger code than a table card. The PDF download uses the same width.
The scan meter is a guide, not a promise. Always test-scan with a phone before printing: print one copy at the real size, and scan it with two different phones, in the light where it will hang.
Click Export beside the code. A panel opens next to the designer (on a phone, in its place until you close it) with Format and one Download button:
Every download is your design exactly as it looks in the designer: the same frame, words, centre graphic and colours, and a see-through background stays see-through. Nothing in the export panel changes how the code looks. The link's Share tab and the go-live window also have a quick Download of the PNG at 1024 pixels.
Downloads open only while the link is Live, so nobody prints a code that leads to a "not open" page. For a draft, scheduled, paused, ended or archived link, Export stays greyed out and says why: for example "This link is paused. Downloads open once the link is live." You can keep designing meanwhile.
People who can see smart links but not change them get the downloads, without the design controls. An archived link can't be redesigned until it's restored.
The link isn't live. Hover Export to see its state, then switch it on, resume it, or wait for its start date. See Link states.
The logo came from a link that couldn't be loaded when you downloaded. Upload the image file on the Centre tab instead, then download again.
Open the meter and fix the checks marked as needing a fix, starting from the top. The usual ones: make the code darker than its background, keep the blank margin at 4, make the centre graphic smaller, or set the repair level back to Auto.
Try again, or pick a smaller PNG size. On a slow device the Print size can take a moment.
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