QR codes that send customers to your own ordering page

How to use it

1. Type your shop name and ordering link. Use the web address where customers order from you directly, such as your own domain or your hosted ordering page.
2. Scan the preview. Point your phone camera at the code on screen and check it opens the right page. Fix the link before you print anything.
3. Print the sheets you need. Print a window poster, numbered table cards or a sheet of bag stickers at actual size. Download the SVG or PNG for flyers and menus.

What the kit prints

• Window poster (A4). Your shop name, a large code, your line (for example "Scan to order direct") and the web address. For the window or the counter, where people wait or walk past.
• Table cards (four A6 cards to an A4 sheet). Numbered if you set a number of tables, so staff can see where a guest is sitting. Every card carries the same code. Cut along the dashed lines. For orders that arrive tagged with the table, see QR table ordering.
• Bag stickers (twelve to an A4 sheet). For the bags and boxes on your own collection and delivery orders, so a customer has your link to hand for next time.
• SVG and PNG files. For your printed menu, flyers or social posts. SVG stays sharp at any size.

Where a code earns its place

A code is only useful where someone has a moment and a reason to scan it. For a takeaway, the obvious places are the window, the counter where collection customers wait, the table for eat-in guests, and the bag or box on your own orders.

Be careful with marketplace orders. Just Eat's partner terms say you must not use customers' personal data for marketing or to entice them away from its services (clauses 3.2 and 12.5 of the terms dated 18 December 2025). Before you put anything aimed at app customers into an app order, read your own contract. Our guide to leaving Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats quotes what each partner agreement says.

Static codes, and why the address is printed

Many QR services make a "dynamic" code that points at their own short link and then forwards the customer to you. That lets you change the destination later, but the code then depends on that service staying in business and on your account staying active. This kit makes a static code: the address is in the pattern itself, so there is nothing to renew.

Action Fraud has warned about "quishing", where fake QR stickers are put over genuine codes, most often on car park payment machines; it says codes in pubs and restaurants are usually safe to scan, and it advises people to check for tampering and use the phone's own camera to scan (North East Cyber Resilience Centre summary of Action Fraud advice; Which?, both read 10 November 2026). Printing your address under every code lets a customer check it, and it is worth looking over outside posters for stickers now and then.

Print tips

• Print at actual size (100%) and scan a printed copy before you put up a whole batch.
• Keep the white border around the code. Black on white scans most reliably.
• For a window, tape the poster facing out and check it scans through the glass in daylight and under your lights.
• A longer address makes a denser code. A short address on your own domain gives a cleaner code that scans from further away.