Change your destination without reprinting. Track every scan. Apply your branding on the redirect.
Every dynamic QR code generated on QR2GO points to a short link on our servers. When someone scans it, we look up the current destination for that link and forward them on. That single layer of indirection is what lets you change where the QR points without ever reprinting the image.
Everything on this page reflects how QR2GO currently behaves. Where a feature is Premium, it is labelled.
The final destination URL is baked directly into the QR image. Once the QR is printed, the destination is fixed forever. No analytics are possible.
The QR image encodes a QR2GO short link. The short link resolves the current destination at scan time. Edit the destination at any point — the printed QR keeps working.
Your redirect mode is an account-level setting. All your dynamic QR codes use the same redirect mode at the same time.
Changing the redirect mode is a Premium feature. Free accounts use the default Explicit mode.
Scanner lands on a short QR2GO page that confirms the destination, then forwards to it.
Trust, brand presence and B2B use cases where a visible step is valuable.
Scanner is forwarded immediately without seeing a QR2GO page.
Campaigns where you want a frictionless landing experience but still need scan counts and geography.
Before switching to Hidden Tracked, QR2GO asks you to confirm that you understand scanners are not shown a consent page and that any privacy obligations your jurisdiction places on you remain yours to fulfil.
QR2GO records no scan data. Newly generated QRs encode the destination directly.
Cases where you do not want any analytics collection on QR2GO's side, or where the destination should travel inside the QR image itself.
Because newly generated QRs encode the destination directly, those particular QR images cannot be re-pointed without a reprint. Already-printed dynamic QRs created in another mode are unaffected.
Updating where a printed QR points is a two-minute job.
Open the dashboard. You need to own the QR you want to update.
Find it in your QR list and open its edit view.
Replace the target URL with the new one and save the changes.
The next scan will land on the new destination. Existing scan analytics for the QR are not deleted.
Every destination change is recorded server-side with a timestamp, the previous value and the new value. A user-facing history view is on our roadmap.
Go to your dashboard profile page (Settings → Redirect).
Choose Explicit, Hidden Tracked or Direct Untracked.
Hidden Tracked requires a one-time acknowledgement that you understand scanners are not shown a consent page.
The new mode applies to every scan from that moment, on every dynamic QR in your account.
Changing the redirect mode requires a Premium subscription. Free accounts can read their current settings but cannot edit them.
Only when the redirect mode actually records scans (Explicit and Hidden Tracked). Direct Untracked records nothing.
QR2GO does not store raw visitor IPs. Each IP is hashed with a project-wide salt using SHA-256, and only that hash is persisted. Coarse city-level geolocation is derived from the IP during the scan and stored alongside the hash.
Scan events are kept for 30 days on Free accounts and 365 days on Premium accounts, then automatically removed by a monthly cleanup job.
Yes, as long as it is a dynamic QR. Open the QR in your dashboard, change the destination URL and save. The printed code keeps working and the next scan lands on the new destination.
No. The QR image encodes a QR2GO short link, not the destination itself. Updating the destination in the dashboard is enough.
A static QR encodes the final URL directly in the image, so once it is printed, the destination is locked. A dynamic QR encodes a QR2GO short link, which we resolve to the current destination at scan time.
Explicit shows a brief QR2GO page (with optional countdown and Premium branding) and records analytics. Hidden Tracked redirects instantly and still records analytics server-side. Direct Untracked redirects instantly and records nothing.
No. Past scan events remain attached to the QR. The destination change is also recorded server-side as an audit entry.
Yes. The dashboard shows per-QR scan analytics — counts, timestamps, geography (country/region/city), device and browser breakdowns — within your retention window.
Yes, with a Premium subscription. In Explicit mode you can add your logo, a custom title and a custom subtitle to the redirect page.
QR2GO is built for European businesses. Raw IP addresses are never stored — only a salted SHA-256 hash. Coordinates are reduced to roughly 1.1 km precision. Retention is bounded, and Direct Untracked records nothing at all. See the Privacy Policy for the full disclosure.
No. The redirect mode is currently an account-level setting and applies to every dynamic QR in your account at the same time.
Dynamic QRs depend on QR2GO being reachable to resolve the destination. We host in Germany on infrastructure built for high availability; if you want printed media to work without any external dependency, generate a static QR or use Direct Untracked mode (which encodes the destination directly in newly generated images).
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https://qr2go.eu/redirect-guide