About EZQR

Why we built it

EZQR started as an internal tool. We were working on a freight logistics project that needed dynamic QR codes on Bills of Lading and pallet labels: codes a dispatcher could update after the paperwork was already printed, with a scan history attached to each one. We went shopping.

The market we found was frustrating. The entry prices weren't outrageous ($5 to $10 a month for an editable code with basic analytics), but almost every one of them locked you into an annual commitment to get that rate. QR Tiger, Uniqode, and Flowcode all billed yearly on their cheapest tiers, and their higher tiers climbed to $37, $99, even $250 a month. Every free tool either added a watermark, expired the codes after a trial, or stuffed an advertisement between the scan and the destination. What we couldn't find was the simple thing: an editable code with scan history, billed month to month, that kept working after we stopped paying. All for a feature that costs pennies to host.

So we built our own. A small platform, low overhead, monthly billing, no watermarks, no ads, codes that survive the day you cancel. We shipped it in February 2026. Other operators kept asking us to use it. We opened the door.

Today, 1K+ customers use EZQR: restaurants, hotels, real estate teams, event organizers, freight forwarders, churches, retail stores, and a long tail of small operators who needed exactly what we needed. We’re still bootstrapped, still small, and still building it the way we’d want a vendor to build it for us.

What makes EZQR different

• 1

  Static codes outlive your subscription

  Static QR codes on EZQR encode the destination directly into the ISO/IEC 18004 pattern. They don’t depend on our servers, our uptime, or your subscription. Cancel tomorrow and the code on your printed menu still works. After cancellation you keep the paid plan until the end of the period you already paid for, and nothing is deleted. Most competitors delete dynamic codes the moment you cancel.

• 2

  No ads, no watermarks, no upsells inside the scan

  Every code looks like a clean code: no logo of ours, no scan interstitial, no banner injected between your customer and the destination. Free plan included. PNG, SVG, PDF, every format.

• 3

  Monthly billing, one-click cancel

  Every plan bills monthly. Cancel from the dashboard: no retention call, no email-to-cancel policy, no “please tell us why you’re leaving” survey gate. Uniqode, QR Code Chimp, and Flowcode all require annual commitments. We don’t.

• 4

  Scannability check on every code, every download

  Every QR code is validated against ISO/IEC 18004 before download. If your logo is too large, contrast is too low, or the data payload exceeds safe limits, you see a warning before you commit it to print. Most other generators ship the file and let you discover the problem at scale.

What we believe

• If a code doesn’t scan, nothing else matters. Validate before download, not after a thousand prints.
• “Free” should mean free. Not free-with-watermarks, free-with-ads, or free-until-the-trial-ends.
• Pricing should be on the pricing page. If you have to email for a quote on a $20/mo product, the pricing is dishonest.
• Codes that live on a printed flyer should outlive the company that generated them. That’s why static codes are first-class.
• The best marketing is a product that does what it says. We’d rather ship features than write headlines about them.

Who uses EZQR

EZQR is used across a wide range of operations:

• Restaurants and cafes: menus, Wi-Fi, Google reviews
• Hotels and hospitality: room Wi-Fi, room service, spa booking
• Real estate teams: yard signs, listing brochures, virtual tours
• Event organizers: check-in, schedules, attendee handouts
• Logistics and freight: BOLs, PODs, warehouse asset tags
• Retail and ecommerce: product inserts, packaging, loyalty programs
• Churches and nonprofits: donation links, bulletin pages, contact info
• Print and business cards: vCards, portfolios, booking links

Browse the full list of 46 industry playbooks to see how each vertical actually deploys QR codes in production.

We are ez-qr.com, not ezqr.ca

There is a separate, unrelated business at ezqr.ca operating in Canada under a similar name. We are not affiliated with them in any way: different company, different product, different ownership. If you signed up at ezqr.ca and ended up here, you are in the wrong place. If you signed up at ez-qr.com and are looking for support, you are in the right place. Reach us at [email protected]. The two companies are unrelated and share no ownership, staff or infrastructure; the similar name is a coincidence.

What we don’t do

A short list of things every competitor seems to do that EZQR doesn’t:

• We don’t inject ads or interstitials between the scan and the destination.
• We don’t watermark your QR codes on any plan, including free.
• We don’t require annual contracts. Every plan is monthly.
• We don’t expire static codes. They work as long as paper lasts.
• We don’t delete your dynamic codes the moment you cancel.
• We don’t hide pricing behind a sales call.
• We don’t take VC money. No board pressure, no triple-renewal pricing.

How the writing on this site gets made

Every page here is written and edited by a person, and AI is part of that process. It is used for drafting, for structuring a page, and for working through research. Nothing it produces is published as it comes out. A human writes the final text, decides what the page argues, and is accountable for every claim in it.

We use it because the alternative was covering fewer topics, not covering them better. The useful part of writing about QR codes is the checking (reading a specification, running a payload through an encoder, opening a competitor’s pricing page), and that part is still done by hand. Drafting is what gets help.

The checking is the part we will defend. Four things specifically:

• Product claims are checked against the code automatically. A script reads our actual plan definitions and upload limits, then fails the build if a page claims something the product does not do. It runs on 68 content files.
• Numbers are computed, not estimated. The print sizes and module counts on these pages come from running the real payload through the same encoder the generator uses, measured against the GS1 minimum printed module of 0.396 mm. You can reproduce any of them.
• Competitor pricing is read off their own pages, not repeated from memory, and corrected when it moves. Where a competitor is better on something, the comparison says so.
• Where sources disagree, the figure is left out. The UPI page carries no transaction limits because the 2026 rules are reported inconsistently and NPCI blocks automated checks. An omission is better than a confident wrong number.

If something here is wrong, email [email protected]. Corrections are noted on the page rather than quietly edited.

How EZQR makes money

We make money exactly one way: paid subscriptions to dynamic codes and advanced features. There’s no second revenue stream behind the curtain. We don’t sell scan analytics to advertisers, we don’t monetize the redirect path, and we don’t broker leads to third parties. The static codes are genuinely free because hosting a downloaded PNG costs us effectively zero, and the dynamic plans are priced to actually be sustainable, not to subsidize a venture round.

Our four plans are on the pricing page: Free ($0), Lite ($5/mo), Pro ($10/mo), Max ($20/mo). The same plans for every customer. No special enterprise pricing that’s 5x what we list, no discount in exchange for a case study, no surcharge if you scale.

Security, reliability, and the standards we follow

Every QR code generated on EZQR is validated against ISO/IEC 18004 (the international standard for QR code symbology) before you can download it. If the logo overlay exceeds safe size, the contrast ratio dips below the readable threshold, or the data payload pushes past the version’s error-correction capacity, you see the warning before you hit print. That check exists because we’ve seen too many production runs “tested fine on my phone” and then failed at scale.

Site-level: every page is served over TLS 1.3 with HSTS preload, the redirect path is rate-limited per IP, and dynamic-code analytics are aggregated. We don’t store personally identifying information about your scanners beyond what’s already in standard web logs (country, device class, referrer). We’re GDPR-aligned, offer a Data Processing Agreement for business customers, and the full security overview lives at /compliance.

What we don’t promise

We’re a small team. That means honest tradeoffs:

• No phone support. Email is the only channel, and the team that answers it is the team that writes the code. Response time on a business day is usually a few hours; sometimes a full day.
• No 99.99% SLA on paper. Our actual uptime tracks well, but we don’t sign uptime contracts because we don’t want to charge enterprise prices to fund the legal overhead.
• No on-prem deployment. EZQR is a hosted product. If you need an air-gapped install, we’re honestly not the right tool.
• No certifications we don’t actually hold. We’re GDPR-aligned and DPA-ready, but we’re not SOC 2 audited yet. If your procurement requires it, that’s a real constraint we don’t hide.

Most customers don’t need any of the above. If you do, we’d rather you find that out here than three months into a contract.

What we’re building next

We ship small, frequent improvements rather than annual releases. Recent work: deeper scan analytics, smart-routing rules for dynamic codes, REST API access on the Max plan, and 50+ content types with proper landing-page support. Coming next: better team collaboration, a public changelog, and more industry-specific landing pages. If something’s missing for your use case, tell us. The roadmap is shaped by what customers actually ask for.