04. Configuring the QR Code

MindFire’s QR code generator allows the users some control over the size, color and shape of the QR codes to be generated. Please see the screenshot below and the following text for available options.

• Image size can be chosen as 100x100 (small), 200x200 (medium), 300x300 (large) or 500x500 (extra large). 

• Image format can be chosen as JPG or PNG

• The image corners can be rounded

• The image can be printed in color or grayscale

• For color printing, users can select colors in the individual parts of the QR code, as illustrated above.

• A small square image (max size 200x200) can be uploaded to be printed at the center of the QR code, as illustrated above.

Various QR Code Options

Below are all the other options for creating QR codes. All the available options are highlighted in the screenshot below.

V-Card

When you select the V-Card option, the following model comes up where the specifics of the V-Card can be configured. The modal is pre-populated with default values. However, the users can change these default values, either by typing in a specific value (e.g. John Sample in the name fields).

A typical use case for the V-Card option could be to send a mailer from a mortgage company that has a QR code to scan to pull up the contact information of your loan office and save it on your phone. It is possible to have additional custom fields defined to carry the loan officer’s contact information, e.g. ##loanofficerfirstname##, ##loanofficer-firstname##, ##loanofficer-lastname##, ##loanofficer-email## and so on, and the user should be able to type those in before saving this QR code.

Google Map

The Google Map option opens up the modal shown below where the users can configure the address details to be shown on the map. The address can be a static address such as “123 Main Street”, “Los Angeles”, “CA”, “94332”. Alternatively, the users can use contact variables.

A typical use case associated with Google Maps can be mailers being sent by a Franchise, giving the location of the franchise location nearest to the person. Assuming fields like custom1 through custom 5 are used to carry the address of the nearest franchise location, the above screenshot illustrates how the modal should be configured.

Phone Call

This provides the option to scan a QR code which will open up the phone application on the user's phone and pre-populate the phone number to be dialed. This is a great application for those that want a call back as a call to action.

When the phone option is selected, the system will prompt the user to provide a phone number. The user can either provide a static phone number or a variable such as ##phone##, as shown in the screenshot below.

In a typical use case, the user can provide a call-back phone number such as ##companyphone## along with a code such as a ##reservationid## that the system will automatically punch into an IVR system that answers the phone, allowing the respondent to announcing their identity to the IVR system. An example of how this can be achieved is by providing ##companyphone##,,,,##reservationid## in this modal.

SMS

This provides a call-back option to scan the QR code to respond with an SMS message. We should be able to open the default SMS app on the respondent’s phone, and optionally pre-populate it with a message.

A specific use case will be to respond back with a keyword. To achieve that the users should be able to type in ##mobile##?body:xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the pre-defined keyword that should be used as the callback response via the SMS message.