Customer scans. Google's review popup opens. Five-star tap.
The QR doesn't encode your business URL — it encodes a short link you control, which redirects to Google's canonical "write a review" form for your business. Already signed into Google on the phone (the default for anyone on Gmail), so most reviewers post without seeing a sign-in screen. One tap, one form, no in-between landing page.
Three steps. The Place ID does the work.
Most "review link" tools ask you to paste the Google URL yourself and hope you got the right one. This one looks your business up by name + address, asks Google for its canonical Place ID, and builds the writereview URL from it — no copy-paste, no broken QRs.
Search your business name
Type the name in the search box. Autocomplete shows matching businesses with their full address. Pick yours.
We build the review link
The canonical writereview URL gets generated from Google's internal Place ID for your business. Scanners land directly on the leave-a-review popup — no intermediate Maps listing.
Save the short link
Pick a slug, save, print the QR on a card. The destination is editable — if you move, rename, or swap the underlying URL, the same QR keeps working.
Anywhere a happy customer is one tap away from a review.
The reviews that don't happen are mostly the ones where the customer would have left one if it were easy. A printed QR by the till, in the takeaway bag, on the receipt, on the napkin closes the gap.
Coffee + restaurant counters
Card on the till. The first wave of regulars adds the early five-stars; the review count compounds from there.
Hair, nails, barber
Mirror sticker. The customer who's just looked at a great cut taps the QR while paying.
Plumbers, electricians, contractors
Van decal. The customer who just had the boiler fixed scans before you've packed up.
Receipt, bag, business card
Receipt footer or sticker on the takeaway bag. Captures reviews where most of the goodwill from the purchase still survives.
Spa, gym, clinic
Reception sign-out card. Pair with the post-visit email if the customer didn't scan on the way out.
Hotel + Airbnb checkout
QR on the checkout card. The window between "I had a great stay" and "I'm in the airport thinking about something else" is the conversion window.
Things people ask before they print the card.
Is this allowed by Google?+
Yes. Asking customers for honest reviews via a direct review link is explicitly allowed by Google's review policy — what's not allowed is paying for reviews, gating reviews behind a positive-only filter, or asking only happy customers and never unhappy ones. The QR routes everyone to the same form; what they write is up to them.
What URL does the QR actually open?+
Google's canonical "write a review" URL for your business — https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=YOUR_PLACE_ID. Built from the Place ID we resolve when you pick your business from the search. The customer never sees that URL; they see Google's review popup. If for some reason the Place ID can't be resolved (rare), the destination falls back to a Google Maps search URL pre-filled with your business name and address.
Can I edit the destination if I switch business locations?+
Yes. Open the link in your dashboard, search a different business, the QR keeps working. The same QR card on the counter follows you to your new location.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?+
Yes — every modern iOS and Android camera scans QR codes natively and opens the URL in the system browser, which routes to Google's review popup. Customers already logged into Google (the default on most phones with Gmail) can post immediately; everyone else gets a sign-in prompt first.
Can I track how many people scanned?+
Yes — every scan logs a row in your dashboard with date, country, and device family. Useful for working out which placement (front counter vs receipt vs takeaway bag) actually pulls.
Why not just print the Google URL directly?+
You could, but the Google URL is long, ugly, and dies the moment Google changes the URL format (they've done it twice in the last five years). A short link you control is editable forever — if Google's URL changes, you swap the destination once and every printed QR keeps working.
Can I see what people wrote in their reviews?+
Not through this tool — reviews live on your Google Business profile. Open business.google.com to read + respond. The QR's job is to get them to the form; what they write afterward belongs to you and Google.
Print one card. Watch the reviews compound.
Free to start. Lifetime tier for your own domain and unbranded redirect pages.
Get started free →Short-link SEO — myths and facts about redirects
Do short links hurt SEO? Pass link equity? Get penalised by Google? The honest answers about short-link SEO, with citations from G
Read →QR codes in retail — shelf tags, packaging, attribution
Retail QR codes bridge in-store browse and online buy. Shelf-tag SKU links, packaging transparency, fitting-room calls, and the om
Read →QR codes for invoicing — SEPA, UPI, and bank payment QRs
Payment QR codes for invoicing — SEPA EPC069-12 in Europe, UPI in India, and the US gap. The exact strings, what banks parse, and
Read →