QR codes
Make QR codes for posters, menus, desks and staff cards in the Console, with no ads or watermark, and choose plain or tracked codes.
Agoo is in early access. This page describes the feature as it ships to early-access organisations; screens are illustrative.
Console → QR codes makes QR codes for anything your organisation prints or shows: your reception's Wi-Fi, a menu, a feedback form, a staff contact card, a room sign or your website. There are no ads, no watermark and no Agoo pages in the way of the people who scan them, on any plan.
Plain and tracked codes
Every code is one of two kinds. You choose when you make it.
| Plain | Tracked | |
|---|---|---|
| What's in the code | The content itself: the link, the Wi-Fi details, text | A short link, such as https://agoo.click/7KQ2XP4 |
| Change it after printing | No: the content is printed in the code | Yes: change where it goes, and every printed copy follows straight away |
| Scans counted | No: scanning never reaches Agoo | Yes, with when, where and on what kind of device (Tracked codes) |
| Pause, schedule, password | No | Yes (controls on Growth and above) |
| How many | Unlimited on every plan | From your plan's allowance (below) |
| If Agoo can't be reached | Keeps working | Most codes that open a web page keep working; others ask the scanner to try again in a minute |
Choose plain for things that never change, such as Wi-Fi details or a fixed web address. Choose tracked when you might need to change where the code goes after it's printed, or want to know how often it's scanned. The switch is called Track scans and change it later.
What a code can do
Choose What should it do? when you make a code:
| Kind | Scanning it | Plain or tracked |
|---|---|---|
| Website | Opens a web page (http or https only) | Either |
| Starts a WhatsApp chat, with a message to start with if you like | Either | |
| Wi-Fi | Joins a Wi-Fi network | Always plain |
| Contact card | Saves someone's details to the phone's contacts | Either |
| Staff card | A contact card that follows People, so it stays up to date | Always tracked |
| Check-in poster | Welcomes a visitor at a site's entrance or a gate and sends them to reception | Always tracked |
| Phone call | Calls a number | Either |
| SMS | Writes a text message | Either |
| Writes an email, with a subject and message if you like | Either | |
| Location | Opens a place on a map | Either |
| Event | Adds an event to the phone's calendar | Either |
| Text | Shows a short message | Either |
| App download | Sends iPhones to the App Store, Android phones to Google Play and everything else to a link you choose | Always tracked |
| Opens a menu, brochure or form you upload (up to 10 MB) | Always tracked |
Wi-Fi details have to be in the code itself, because phones read them without going online. Staff cards, check-in posters, app downloads and PDFs keep their content in Agoo, so they're always tracked. A staff card stops showing someone's details when they leave. Staff cards, check-in posters and directions to a site can also be made from the person's or site's own page: see Codes for people and places.
Phone numbers written the Ghanaian way, such as 024 123 4567, get the country code added for you.
Make a code
Open QR codes → New QR code
You see QR codes in the Console if your organisation lets you make codes. Owners and Admins always can. See Who makes codes.
Choose what it does and fill in the details
For example, Wi-Fi with your reception's network name and password, or Website with your feedback form's address.
Choose plain or tracked
Turn on Track scans and change it later for a tracked code. Some kinds are always one or the other.
Design it
Choose its style, colours, logo and frame, or start from one of your organisation's brand templates. The preview is tested to scan as you change it, and a design that doesn't scan can't be saved.
Name it and save
Give it a name you'll recognise, and tags such as "Reception" or "Posters" to group codes. Choose Save code, then Download it as an image or print file.
A tracked code gets its own short link when you save it; until then the preview shows a sample. If your organisation asks for approval, a tracked code waits until an Owner or Admin approves it, and scanning it says it isn't live yet.
Find and manage your codes
QR codes lists your codes with their status and scans. Filter by Mine, Tracked, Plain, Waiting or Archived, search by name, link or code, or choose a tag. At the top you see how many tracked codes your organisation is using from its allowance and its scans over the last 30 days.
On a code's page, More lets you:
- Pause a tracked code, and resume it later. Scanning a paused code says so.
- Archive a tracked code. Printed copies then say the code has ended, and its place in your allowance is freed. You can restore it later, if there's room.
- Delete a plain code. Printed copies keep working, because a plain code holds its content. Tracked codes are archived instead, never deleted, because they may be printed somewhere.
You can change any code's name, tags and design. You can change a tracked code's content, such as where it goes, at any time. A plain code's content can't change: make a new code instead.
What each plan includes
| QR codes | Free | Starter | Growth | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain codes | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Tracked codes | 3 | 25 | 200 | 1,000 | Unlimited |
| Design | 6 dot and 4 eye styles, one colour | + Every style, your logo, frames | + Gradients, brand templates | Everything | Everything |
| Downloads | PNG, SVG | PNG, SVG | + PDF and EPS for print | + PDF and EPS for print | + PDF and EPS for print |
| Many codes from a spreadsheet | — | — | Up to 500 at a time | Up to 500 at a time | Up to 500 at a time |
| Schedules, scan limits, passwords, campaign tags | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Device and country rules | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Who makes codes | Admins, chosen roles | Admins, chosen roles | + Chosen people, allowances, approval | Same as Growth | Same as Growth |
Scan history follows your plan's visitor history: 3 months on Free, 12 months on Starter, 24 months on Growth, up to 5 years on Pro, and as agreed on Enterprise. Older scans are kept, hidden, and come back when you move to a plan with a longer history.
Planned for Pro and Enterprise: your own short-link domain (P4), and QR codes in the API with webhooks for scans (P9). Neither is available yet.
Add-ons
On any plan, Free included, a month each, excluding VAT:
| Add-on | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| QR pack · 25 tracked codes | GH₵49 a month | 25 more tracked codes |
| QR pack · 100 tracked codes | GH₵149 a month | 100 more tracked codes |
| QR pack · 500 tracked codes | GH₵449 a month | 500 more tracked codes |
| Advanced QR (Free and Starter) | GH₵79 a month | Growth's QR design and controls: gradients, brand templates, spreadsheets, print files, schedules, scan limits, passwords, campaign tags, and choosing people, allowances and approval. Not device and country rules, which are Pro's |
The Owner adds them in Console → Settings → Billing: you pay for the rest of the current period, then they renew with your plan, and ending one takes effect at the period's end. Ending a pack never stops a code you've made.
Your tracked codes never stop working
A tracked code you've made keeps working, whatever happens to your plan:
- After a move to a lower plan, including Free, or after you cancel.
- When you have more tracked codes than your plan includes, for example 40 codes after a move from Starter to Free.
- When a QR pack or Advanced QR ends.
What changes is only that you can't make new tracked codes until you're within your allowance again: archive codes you no longer use, add a QR pack or move up a plan. Plain codes are never limited. Features above your new plan, such as a schedule or a password, keep doing what they did, and you can't change them until you move back up.
The short link is on Agoo's address
Tracked codes use agoo.click, a short address that keeps the code small. Each code keeps the address it was made with, so codes you've printed keep working if more addresses are added later. Codes made before agoo.click hold qr.agoo.ardent.africa, which keeps working too.
Group billing
The group pays for the organisations it covers on one monthly invoice, a line for each, from the end of what each has already paid.
Codes for people and places
Staff cards from People, check-in posters for each entrance and gate, directions to a site, and attendance badges, made from the record they're about.