Waitlist QR Code Generator
Turn any link into a QR code sized for a counter sign, table tent or A-frame. Free, runs entirely in your browser, and the link never leaves your device.
Paste a link above and the code appears here.
Want the code to open a live waitlist instead of a static page?
A QR code is only as useful as what it opens. Point it at a waitlist and the people who scan it add themselves, then watch their own place in line update on their phone. Free to start, no account needed, and nothing for them to download.
Make a free waitlistHow to use it
- Paste the link you want the code to open.
- Pick the size you are printing at - it sets the quiet zone advice, not the file.
- Download the SVG and send it to print, or drop it into a poster.
- Test it with your own phone before you print fifty of them.
Where these codes end up
On a table tent at a host stand, taped inside a food truck window, on an A-frame at the end of a market stall, at a barbershop door, and on the wall beside a clinic reception desk. The common thread is a place where a line forms and there is nobody free to manage it.
Printing that actually scans
Keep the white margin. Print in solid black on white rather than a brand colour on a tint - contrast is what a phone camera is looking for, and a low-contrast code fails in exactly the dim, busy conditions where you need it. Do not stretch it: a QR code has to stay square.
Questions
Yes, with no signup and no limit on how many codes you make. It runs entirely in your browser - the link you type is never sent anywhere, so there is nothing for us to meter.
The code itself never expires - it is just a printed encoding of your link, with no redirect or tracking service in between. It keeps working for as long as the link it points at works. Codes from generators that route through their own short domain can stop working if that service shuts down or starts charging; this one has no middle layer to fail.
The rule of thumb is that the code should be about a tenth of the distance people scan it from. Around 100 mm works on a table tent read at arm's length, 150 mm on a counter sign, and 300 mm on an A-frame people read from a few metres away. Leave the white margin around it - that quiet zone is part of the code and cropping it tight is the most common reason a printed code will not scan.
SVG is vector, so it stays perfectly sharp at any print size - a PNG sized for a table tent turns to mush blown up on an A-frame. Any print shop and every design tool will take an SVG.
Yes, and that is what it is for. Every waitlist on MakeTheWaitlist has its own join link - paste that link above and the printed code takes people straight to the join form for that waitlist.