# Saved QR Designs and Brand Kit

> Save a QR code design once and reuse it on every smart link, and keep your brand's colours, logo and font in a brand kit your whole team shares.

Source: https://docs.theavoxai.com/chat-links/qr-designs

Once a QR code looks right, you don't have to rebuild it for the next link. The QR code designer keeps
two things for each Switchboard, shared by everyone in it:

- **Saved designs**: whole designs with a name, ready to put on any smart link in one click.
- **Brand kit**: your brand's colours, logo and font, to bring to any design.

Both show in the designer under **Starting designs**, on the **QR code** step when you create a link and
on a link's **QR code** tab. See [QR codes](https://docs.theavoxai.com/chat-links/qr-codes) for the designer itself.

## Saved designs

### Save a design

**1. Design the code**

Start from a starting design, a saved one or a blank code, and change anything you like.

**2. Name it**

Under **Saved designs**, type a name in **Name this design** (up to 60 characters), like "Shop
window" or "Menu card".

**3. Save it**

Click **Save design**. "Design saved" confirms it, and it appears first in the row.

A saved design keeps everything you set: pattern, eyes, colours, frame, words, font and the centre
graphic, an uploaded logo included. The code itself isn't part of it: each link always gets its own.

### Use a saved design

Click a saved design to put it on the code you're designing. You can still change anything afterwards,
and the saved design stays as it was. Like the starting designs, it keeps the printed width you set on
the scan meter.

On a link's **QR code** tab the change saves on its own, and every printed code for that link keeps
working: the design changes, the address it holds doesn't.

### Delete a saved design

Click the bin on a saved design, then **Delete?** to confirm. It's gone for everyone in the Switchboard.
Links that already use that look keep it, because each link keeps its own copy of its design.

### How many

Each Switchboard keeps up to 20 saved designs ([AVX-3841](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3841)). Delete one you no
longer use to save another. Each design, with its logo, can be up to about 300 KB: a large photo or a
very detailed logo can go over ([AVX-3842](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3842)). A logo a few hundred pixels wide,
as a PNG or SVG, is plenty.

## Brand kit

The **Brand kit** holds your brand's look: up to four colours, a logo and a font. One kit per
Switchboard, shared by the whole team.

### Save your brand kit

Design a code in your brand's look first: your main colour as the code colour, your second colour in
the eye centres, your frame colour, your background, your logo in the centre and your font on the frame.
Then click **Save as brand kit**. "Brand kit saved" confirms it.

The kit takes from the design on screen:

| Kept in the kit | Taken from |
| --- | --- |
| **Colours** | The code colour, the eye centre colour (or the code's second colour), the frame colour and the background colour, each once |
| **Logo** | The logo in the centre, when the centre is a **Logo**. Otherwise the kit keeps the logo it already had |
| **Font** | The font of the frame's words |

Saving again replaces the kit. Before your team has a kit, the card says "Save your colours, logo and
font to reuse them on every code."

### Use your brand kit

The card shows your kit's colours and logo. Click **Use brand kit** to bring it to the design on screen:

- the first colour becomes the code colour and the frame colour;
- the second colour goes in the eye centres;
- the font goes on the frame's words (and on letters in the centre);
- the logo goes in the centre, when the kit has one.

Everything else in the design stays as it is. Your kit's colours also show as quick picks in every colour
picker in the designer, so you can use them anywhere: the background, the frame's words, the eye rings,
the backing plate.

## Who can do what

| To | You need |
| --- | --- |
| Use saved designs and the brand kit while designing | **Create and edit smart links** |
| Save, delete and replace saved designs and the brand kit | **Create and edit smart links** |

Someone with **See smart links** only gets a link's QR code downloads, without the designer, so they
don't see the saved designs.

## Troubleshooting

**Saved designs don't show**

If the designer says saved designs and the brand kit aren't switched on yet
([AVX-3840](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3840)), they're on their way: the link's own design still saves as usual.
If they couldn't be loaded ([AVX-3844](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3844)), refresh the page. Starting designs
and everything else in the designer keep working either way.

**It says the design is too big**

Almost always it's the logo ([AVX-3842](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3842)). Make it smaller, save it as a PNG or
SVG, upload it again on the **Centre** tab, and save the design or brand kit again.

**It says I have 20 saved designs**

That's the most a Switchboard keeps ([AVX-3841](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3841)). Delete one your team no longer
uses, then save again.

**A saved design disappeared**

A teammate deleted it, or you've switched to another Switchboard: each Switchboard has its own
([AVX-3843](https://docs.theavoxai.com/error-codes/avx-3843)). Links that used it keep their look.

## Related

- [QR codes](https://docs.theavoxai.com/chat-links/qr-codes): The designer, the scan meter and downloads

- [Smart links](https://docs.theavoxai.com/chat-links): Addresses, sends, dates, sharing and limits