How-To: Use QR Codes

How-To: Use QR Codes

QR Codes are a type of matrix barcodes usually including links to web pages. Hotels often uses such QR codes in marketing material or in room flyers, allowing guests to find more information about the services, facilities by scanning the QR Code with their mobile device. This URL maybe a page in the website, the Facebook page or a pdf document

Though QR Code includes a URL link, this cannot be changed after printing the documents, but the information may change often, for example a restaurant menu in pdf format.
To allow the content update, we suggest you create a QR Code link to a non-existing fixed URL of your website and then create Redirection to the PDF document. This way you may change the Redirection rule at any time pointing to a different PDF file.

Example

  1. Guest scan QR code in a hotel leaflet that have a link to https://mywebsite.com/qr/restaurantmenu/
  2. Guest navigates to https://mywebsite.com/qr/restaurantmenu/. This page does not exist in the website
  3. Website using Redirection rules, redirects /qr/restaurantmenu/ to https://assets.hotelwize.com/100/restaurantmenu1-en.pdf and the pdf document is displayed in guest's mobile device
When hotel management want to update the pdf document with the latest version, uploads the new pdf file to website media gallery with a different name, restaurantmenu2-en.pdf and then update the Redirection rule to the new target URL https://assets.hotelwize.com/100/restaurantmenu2-en.pdf 
In this case, the Redirection rules should be:
  1. Publish Environment: Live and Preview
  2. Match: Exact Match
  3. Ignore Trailing Slash: True
  4. Request URL: /qr/restaurantmenu/
  5. Query Parameters: Ignore & Skip Parameters
  6. Target: Target URL: https://assets.hotelwize.com/100/restaurantmenu2-en.pdf 
  7. Redirect Status: (Found) 302
You should publish the website after making changes to Redirection rules


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