A Wi-Fi QR code carries your network name, security type and password. Guests point their camera at the card, tap Join, and they’re online before they’ve sat down.
Harbour Rooms
Welcome. The Wi-Fi is on us.
Point your camera at the code and tap Join.
Fictional hotel. The card’s code is real and joins “HarbourRooms-Guest”, a network that doesn’t exist.
Table tents, room cards, a framed sign at reception, a card on the desk, a poster on the fridge. Each piece below carries a working code for its own fictional guest network.
Free Wi-Fi
Fern & Filter
One per table, beside the menu. Guests join before the coffee arrives.
Northgate Dental
Guest Wi-Fi while you wait
Scan to join. No password needed.
Northgate-Visitors
Framed at the desk, where people wait with a phone in their hand.
Loft 12
desk 07
Today’s Wi-Fi
A small card on each hot desk, swapped when the day-pass password changes.
Maple House
Make yourself at home.
Bins go out Tuesday. The kettle is loud. The Wi-Fi is this:
A5, on the fridge in the kitchen, for every new set of guests.
Laptops can’t scan a card, and some older phones need a scanner app. The network name and password in small type cover both.
A line such as “Scan to join the Wi-Fi” gets more scans than a bare code. Add it as a frame in the designer or print it on the card.
Inside the room, on the table, at the desk. Not in the window: anyone on the street can scan a code facing out.
Fictional venues: Fern & Filter, Harbour Rooms, Northgate Dental, Loft 12, Maple House. Every code is real and joins a network that doesn’t exist. Hotel card shown above, in the hero.
There is no link and no web page in between. The code holds the network details themselves, and the phone turns them into a join prompt.
No app. The built-in camera on current iPhones and Android phones recognises a Wi-Fi code and shows a prompt, usually a banner at the top of the viewfinder.
iPhones show something like “Join ‘Network’ Wi-Fi Network”; Android phones show a similar sheet. The exact wording depends on the phone and its OS version.
The phone saves the network with its password, the same as if the guest had typed it. Next visit, it reconnects by itself.
Free Wi-Fi
Fern & Filter
Phones join from what is printed in the code, not from a link, so a Wi-Fi code can’t be edited after printing. Change the password and old cards stop working: print on inserts or small cards that are quick to swap.
Nothing passes through QR Rapid when a Wi-Fi code is scanned, so there are no statistics. Your router’s admin page shows who is connected.
Anyone who scans or photographs the card can read the password. Put the guest network on the card, never the one your tills, cameras and laptops use.
QR Rapid doesn’t configure your router or sign guests in. The code hands the phone the same details you would read out.
Network name exactly as the router broadcasts it (capitals and spaces count, up to 32 bytes), the security type, and the password. Turn on “hidden network” only if the router doesn’t broadcast its name.
Dot and corner styles, your colours, a frame with a line such as “Scan for Wi-Fi”, and your logo in the middle.
SVG, PNG, JPEG or PDF for print. Scan a printed proof with an iPhone and an Android phone before you print the batch: a typo still makes a code, it just won’t join.
Security types
Sketch of the four fields, not a product screenshot. Values are the sample hotel’s.
It stores your network name, security type and password in a standard format (WIFI:S:…;T:…;P:…;;). The built-in camera on current iPhone and Android phones reads it and offers to join the network.
It is as safe as printing the password, because anyone who scans the code can read it. Use a separate guest network, keep the card indoors where your guests are, and never share your staff or home network this way.
You need a new code. Wi-Fi QR codes are static: the password is stored in the pattern, so old cards keep the old password and phones can’t join with it. Reprint and replace the cards.
No. Wi-Fi codes are static, and nothing passes through QR Rapid when one is scanned, so there are no scan statistics. Your router’s admin page shows connected devices.
None (open network), WPA/WPA2 and WEP. WPA/WPA2 passwords must be 8–63 characters or a 64-character hex key; WEP keys must be 5 or 13 characters, or 10 or 26 hex digits.
Yes. Turn on the hidden-network option and the code tells the phone the network doesn’t broadcast its name. Enter the name exactly as configured, up to 32 bytes.
Most laptops can’t scan a printed code with their camera the way phones do. Print the network name and password beside the code so laptop users can type them in.
Network name, security type, password. Then your colours and logo, and a file ready for the printer. Every account starts with a 7-day free trial, no credit card required. See plans