Design and downloads
Style your QR codes, test that they scan, download them for screens and print, save brand templates and make many codes from a spreadsheet.
Agoo is in early access. This page describes the feature as it ships to early-access organisations; screens are illustrative.
The QR studio shows a live preview as you design a code. Options your plan doesn't include show which plan does; nothing is hidden behind a watermark.
Design a code
The studio has five tabs.
| Tab | What you choose | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Style | Dots: Square, Rounded, Dots, Signature, Pixels, Classy, Diamond, Fluid, Lines or Columns. Corners: the corner frames and their centres | Free: the first six dot styles and four corners. Starter and above: every style, mixed freely |
| Colours | Code: one colour, or a gradient or radial gradient of two or three colours. Background. Separate colours for the corner frames and centres | Free: one colour and a background. Starter: corner colours. Growth: gradients |
| Logo | No logo, the Agoo mark, or Your logo (PNG, JPEG, WebP or SVG), covering 12% to 30% of the code | Free: no logo or the Agoo mark. Starter and above: your logo |
| Frame | No frame, Box, Label, Speech bubble or Ticket, with a Call to action of up to 30 characters, such as "Scan for the menu" | Starter and above |
| More | Error correction (Low, Medium, Quartile or High) and the Quiet zone, the clear border phones need | Every plan |
A new code starts in Agoo's own style: rounded modules and corners with doorway-shaped centres, in dark ink on white.
Some tips that keep codes easy to scan:
- Keep the code darker than its background. Many phones can't read a light code on a dark background.
- Keep the quiet zone at 4 modules or more.
- Smaller logos scan more reliably. A logo covers part of the code, so a code with a logo always uses High error correction to make up for it.
- Higher error correction survives more damage, such as scratches on an outdoor sign, but makes a denser code.
The scan test
As you change the design, the studio draws the code small, the way a phone sees a poster across a room, and reads it back with the same reader most Android phones use. It also checks the contrast between the code and its background.
| Result | What it means |
|---|---|
| Scans well | Ready to save. |
| Scans, with a caution | It read, but something could stop some phones, such as a transparent background or a narrow quiet zone. Fix it if you can. |
| Doesn't scan | Change the design. A design that doesn't scan can't be saved. |
Always scan a printed copy with a phone or two before you print hundreds.
Download
Choose Download on a code, or in the studio once it's saved.
| For | Formats | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Screens and documents | PNG at 512, 1,024, 2,048 or 4,096 pixels square; SVG at any size | Every plan |
| PDF 30, 50 or 100 mm wide, as vectors; EPS for design tools | Growth and above, or Advanced QR |
Every format is the same drawing, so a code looks the same on a screen, a sticker and a banner. For print, PDF and EPS stay sharp at any size; for a large banner, scale the PDF rather than a PNG.
Brand templates
On Growth and above, or with the Advanced QR add-on, Owners and Admins save designs as brand templates in QR codes → Templates: your colours, logo, frame and call to action, once, so every code your team makes looks like yours.
- Anyone making a code can start from a template with Brand template in the studio.
- In Settings → QR codes, you can ask that every code uses one. Then everyone except Owners and Admins chooses one of your templates. See Who makes codes.
- Changing a template doesn't change codes already made from it.
Many codes at once
On Growth and above, or with the Advanced QR add-on, QR codes → Many at once makes up to 500 codes from a spreadsheet, all in one design: room signs, staff cards, asset tags or event badges.
Choose what each code does
Website, Contact card, WhatsApp, Phone call, SMS, Email, Text or Location.
Choose the design and whether they're tracked
A brand template, or Agoo's standard design. Turn on Tracked codes to make tracked codes; each uses one of your organisation's tracked codes, and the page shows how many are left. Plain codes are unlimited.
Fill in the spreadsheet
Choose Download a sample file, fill in one row a code in a spreadsheet, and save it as CSV (up to 2 MB). The first row names the columns, starting with name.
Upload and check
Choose Choose a CSV file. Each row is checked, and problems are shown by row before anything is made.
Make them and download
Choose Make to create them. Download them all at once as a ZIP of PNG, SVG or PDF files named by their row, or find them in QR codes.
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.
Tracked codes
Change where a tracked QR code goes, schedule it, limit or protect it, send devices and countries to different places, and see its scans.