About Qordway

What Qordway does

Pick what you want the code to do, whether that is opening a link, joining a Wi-Fi network, saving a contact, starting an email, dialling a number, dropping a map pin or adding a calendar event. Fill in the fields, and download it. There are ten code types, and every one of them works without an account.

You can style the code to match your brand: colors, dot and corner shapes, background roundness, and a logo in the middle. The generator warns you when a choice is likely to stop the code scanning, whether that is insufficient contrast or a logo covering too much of the pattern, because a QR code that looks good and doesn't scan is worse than a plain one that does.

Downloads come in six formats: PNG, JPG, GIF, SVG, PDF and EPS. The last three are true vector, which is what a print shop or a designer will actually ask you for, and you get them on every plan without signing in.

What we think is genuinely unusual here is the control, not the file format. Independent colors for the eye frames and the eye centers, six dot styles, corner styles, background roundness and gradients, with microcopy next to each one explaining what it costs you, because a rounder dot style really does lose contrast at small print sizes and you should hear that from us rather than from a scanner that won't read your sign.

No watermark. On any plan.

Nothing you download from here carries our name, including on the free plan and including when you're not signed in. The file is full resolution, in every format, and it's yours to use commercially, on products you sell, with no attribution required.

Several generators add a watermark to free downloads and then charge to remove the restriction they invented. We think that's a paywall around arithmetic. Generating a QR code is a computation that finishes in milliseconds on your own device; there's no infrastructure to fund, so there's nothing to charge for.

Built to run entirely in your browser

Every QR code is generated client-side, on your own device. Nothing you type is sent to, processed by, or stored on our servers unless you're signed in and choose to save it. There's no backend involved in creating the code itself, and nothing about the code is logged.

That's not a policy promise we're asking you to take on trust. It's how the thing is built, and you can check it. Open your browser's network tab and generate a code. You'll see the page's own requests: a stylesheet, two typefaces from Google Fonts, and our analytics. Like most sites, this one loads those. What you will not see is a request carrying the link you typed, the contents of your code, or the image itself, because the code is drawn in your browser and there is nowhere for it to be sent.

We'd rather tell you exactly where the line is than make a broader claim that falls apart the first time someone checks. Our CDN records ordinary web-server logs, meaning your IP address and which page you asked for, the same as every site you visit, and never the contents of a code. The privacy policy has the full detail on that, and on what we do store once you have an account.

What an account adds

Signing up is free and gets you a library of up to 25 saved codes, plus two dynamic QR codes, whose destination you can change after they're printed, with scan analytics behind them. The free plan is supported by advertising; paid plans aren't.

Paid plans raise those limits, add gradient styling and API access, and on the Business plan a shared team library with roles and a review workflow. The pricing page lays out exactly what sits where.

We'd rather you didn't overpay

A static QR code contains your data directly. It works forever, depends on nobody, and costs nothing. If we disappeared tomorrow, every static code you've made here would keep working. Most people printing a Wi-Fi code by the guest room door or a vCard on a business card need exactly that and nothing more.

Dynamic codes are worth paying for when the destination might change after printing, or when you need to know whether anyone is scanning. That's a real service with real ongoing cost. Everything else is arithmetic.

We've written that argument out properly, including the parts that cut against us, in free versus paid QR code generators. It's part of a reference library covering how QR codes work, how to design ones that scan, and where they're worth using. We built it because most of what's written about QR codes online is thin and much of it is wrong.

What happens to your dynamic codes if we stop

The paragraph above raises this and it deserves a straight answer rather than being left hanging. A static code needs nothing from us. A dynamic code resolves through qordway.com/q/…, so it needs us to be here. Anyone printing twenty thousand labels is entitled to ask what that depends on.

Your destinations are yours, today

Every account, including the free one, can export the full map of what each code is and where it points, from the QR code library. One button, a CSV, no plan required and nothing to ask us for. If we vanished overnight, that file is what you would need to stand the redirects up somewhere else, and you can hold a copy of it right now rather than hoping to get one later.

We put the export on the free plan deliberately. An export you have to pay for is not a continuity guarantee.

Where the redirects actually run

A q/ link is resolved at Amazon CloudFront's edge network, backed by AWS Lambda and DynamoDB, in us-east-2. There is no server of ours to fall over, and no single machine anywhere in the path.

We do not publish an uptime figure, because we do not measure one yet. Quoting an availability number we have not observed would be worth less than saying so. When continuous monitoring is switched on, the measured figure will go here.

The formal commitment is written and not yet signed

A wind-down promise, the kind with a notice period in it, is a commitment a company makes, and Qordway does not have an entity behind it yet. Publishing one before there is somebody to hold to it would be words with nobody behind them. When the company exists, the commitment goes here and says how much notice you get and how long the redirects keep running.

Until then, what is above is what is actually true, which we would rather publish than a better-sounding version that is not.

Part of the LVSoftworks family

Qordway is built and maintained by LVSoftworks, an independent software studio. It's one of a small family of focused, single-purpose tools we build and keep running, each with its own identity but the same standard behind it.

Get in touch

Feedback, a feature request, a bug, or a code being used abusively: send us a message. We read every one.