About
QRVane is run by one person, on purpose
Hugh Halford-Thompson runs QRVane as a sole trader in the United Kingdom. There is no investor to answer to and no sales team, so the product can be built around one question: what happens to a code after it is printed?
Why it exists
A printed code usually outlives the thing it points to. A café prints a code on 200 table cards; then the menu changes for the season, a price goes up, or a website redesign renames the menu page, and every one of those cards is wrong. The fix used to be a reprint.
A QRVane code holds a short link instead of the page, so you change where the short link goes and the 200 cards follow. That forwarding is a service, and QRVane sells it as a subscription. Every code works for 14 days from the moment it is made. After that, unless its workspace has a plan with room for it, people who scan it see a QRVane page instead of the destination. While the workspace subscribes, its plan keeps codes live past their first 14 days: Starter 10, Pro 50 and Business 250. Because a code can stop, the terms say so plainly and the pricing page states every number; cancelling takes one click, and subscribing again brings back every code the plan keeps live.
There is no password to set and nothing to configure. Design a code, give an email address, and type the 4-digit code we send to it. There is no password and nothing to set up. The code belongs to that address, so only someone who can read that inbox can change it, see its scans or buy a plan that keeps it live. There are also no teams, no API, no custom domains and no bulk CSV: one person, their codes, and a plan sized by the number of codes it keeps live.
What it is built around
- Change it after printing. Every code is a dynamic code: a short go.qrvane.com link, or a hosted page behind one, that you can point somewhere new after printing.
- Made with an email, owned by it. Design a code, give an email address, and type the 4-digit code we send to it. There is no password and nothing to set up. The code belongs to that address, so only someone who can read that inbox can change it, see its scans or buy a plan that keeps it live.
- Fourteen free days, then a plan. Every code works for 14 days from the moment it is made. After that, unless its workspace has a plan with room for it, people who scan it see a QRVane page instead of the destination.
- Reminders before a plan’s codes stop. After a subscription ends we email its owner when the 14-day grace period starts, and again 7 days and 1 day before those codes stop.
- Cancelling in one click. Cancelling takes one click, with no offers or questions in the way, and a cancelled plan runs to the end of the period already paid for.
- Stopped codes come back. Subscribing brings back, at once, every code the plan keeps live.
- One person per workspace. A workspace holds one person: its owner. There are no seats, invitations, member roles, API keys, custom domains or bulk CSV import, on any plan.
- 24 months of history. Scan history is kept for 24 months, then deleted. A working code sends the scanner straight to your link, with no advert and no page of ours in between.
- Your codes can leave. A code's scans can be exported as CSV at every stage: in its first 14 days, in a grace period and after it stops.
- If we close. If QRVane ever closes, customers get 12 months' notice and a full export of their codes and scan history. When the service ends, codes that hold a go.qrvane.com link stop working, so the notice is time to reprint.
Who you are dealing with
One person runs QRVane, so the person who answers your email is the person who decides how it works. Payments go through Paddle, which sells our plans as the merchant of record. The database and the app run in London.
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FAQ
What QRVane is, and is not
What is a dynamic QR code?
A code that holds a short link instead of your page, so you can change where it goes after printing and see how often it is scanned. Every code is a dynamic code: a short go.qrvane.com link, or a hosted page behind one, that you can point somewhere new after printing.
Do I need an account?
You need an email address you can read, and nothing else. Design a code, give an email address, and type the 4-digit code we send to it. There is no password and nothing to set up. The code belongs to that address, so only someone who can read that inbox can change it, see its scans or buy a plan that keeps it live.
Can I use my own domain for the short links?
No. Every code holds a go.qrvane.com link, on every plan, and there are no custom domains.
Can several people share a workspace?
No. A workspace holds one person: its owner. There are no seats, invitations, member roles, API keys, custom domains or bulk CSV import, on any plan. If two people need to change the same codes, they share the inbox the codes were made with.
What do you record when someone scans a code?
The time, the approximate place and the kind of device, so you can see how a code is doing. Unique scans are counted per day: the same phone scanning on two different days counts once on each day. Over a range they are added up, so someone who scanned on Monday and again on Friday counts twice.
What happens to my codes if I do not subscribe?
Every code works for 14 days from the moment it is made. After that, unless its workspace has a plan with room for it, people who scan it see a QRVane page instead of the destination. Once a code stops, a scan shows a plain QRVane page that says the code's 14-day free period has ended, or that its owner's plan has ended, with a line for its owner to sign in and subscribe. There is no fake error and no advert. Subscribing brings back, at once, every code the plan keeps live. A code's scans can be exported as CSV at every stage: in its first 14 days, in a grace period and after it stops.
How do I cancel?
Cancelling takes one click, with no offers or questions in the way, and a cancelled plan runs to the end of the period already paid for.
Make your first code
Design a code, give an email address, and type the 4-digit code we send to it. There is no password and nothing to set up. The code belongs to that address, so only someone who can read that inbox can change it, see its scans or buy a plan that keeps it live.