Receipts and invoices
A small code at the foot of a printed receipt or a PDF invoice reaches every customer, not just the ones who remember to look you up later.
Paste your Google review link and print a code that opens the review form in one scan. No redirect service, nothing to renew.
A Google review QR code stores the direct link to your Business Profile review form, so a scan opens the star rating at once, with no redirect and no expiry.
Two ways to find the address, both free and both permanent.
From your Business Profile (quickest). Sign in with the Google Account that manages the business, search for the business name on Google or open it in Google Maps, and choose Ask for reviews (in some layouts Get more reviews). Google shows a short link to your review form. Copy it, paste it into the field above and download the code.
From your Place ID. Every place on Google Maps has a Place ID, which you can look up with Google's free Place ID Finder. Add it to the end of this address:
Both forms open the review box with the star rating ready to tap. The short link from the Business Profile is fewer characters, so it makes a smaller symbol with fewer modules, which scans more easily when printed small. Check the module count under the preview before you print.
Ask at the moment the customer is happiest, and make it one tap.
A small code at the foot of a printed receipt or a PDF invoice reaches every customer, not just the ones who remember to look you up later.
Cafes, restaurants and salons put the code on a table tent or beside the till, where people wait with a phone already in their hand.
For delivered orders and home services, a card in the box or left after the visit asks for the review when the result is in front of the customer.
A code makes asking easy. How you ask decides whether the reviews stay up.
Google's policy for reviews on Maps forbids offering anything in exchange for a review, such as a discount, a free item or entry to a draw, and forbids asking only the customers you expect to be pleased. Reviews collected that way can be removed, and repeated breaches can lead to restrictions on the profile.
Read Google's current policy on prohibited and restricted content for Maps user contributions before a large print run, because Google updates it from time to time.
The same rules as any QR code, applied to a receipt or a table tent.
The print and sizing guide covers resolution, SVG versus PNG and the distance rule in detail.
Other content types from the same client-side generator.
What business owners ask before they print one.