Using QR Codes In Your Business: Best Practices

Using QR Codes In Your Business: Best Practices And Pitfalls

QR codes are a useful technology that simplify and enrich the customer journey.

The technology is currently used almost everywhere: e-menus in restaurants, virtual business cards, customer feedback collection after food delivery, boarding passes at the airport.

However, as with everything else, a business owner should consider several things when using this technology if they want to create a positive customer experience.

In this article, I’ve assembled a checklist of items to keep in mind as you try to leverage QR codes for your business, broken down by the steps of the customer journey.

So, in this mini-journey, our customer:

Sees the QR code for the first time,
Examines the code,
Scans it,
Follows the link from the code.

Let’s take a closer look at what to consider in each stage.

First Contact With The QR Code

A basic point: When appropriate, QR codes are worth using.

The pandemic and the emergence of built-in code-scanning on our smartphones have set the stage: The public is ready for this technology.

It’s a good time to use QR codes and to relieve your customers from having to memorize a long URL or type it in manually.

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