Solutions · Professional services
The back of the card, the sign in the garden, the proposal
Consultants, accountants, architects, solicitors and agents get bundled into one industry page everywhere, and it is fair enough: the jobs really are the same four. Get your details into a phone without anyone typing them, put a code on something printed whose subject will eventually change, hand a document over as a link, and have one page that stands in for a website you never built.
All four are free here, including the vector PDF a print shop wants and the EPS a designer asks for. There is no watermark and no file type held back.
The jobs, and the thing you make for each
Each card names the tool that does it. Where something needs a paid plan, the card says which one.
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Job 1
The back of a business card
A vCard code carries the name, title, firm, phone, email and website inside itself, so a scan offers to save the contact rather than opening a page — no app, no typing, no transcription error in a phone number. The business-card back template is drawn at 85 × 55 mm with the quiet zone already allowed for, and exports as a vector PDF a print shop can use as-is. It is a static code: no account, nothing to expire, nothing to keep paying for.
What you make vCard QR code generator -
Job 2
A sign whose subject eventually sells
A board in a garden, a card in a window, a hoarding on a site: all printed once, all pointing at something that stops existing. A dynamic code holds a short qrcodeharbor.com address, so when the listing sells you repoint the code at the next one instead of ordering another board. When a destination does stop answering, you see it in your account — the check runs when someone scans the code, at most once every six hours, and whenever you press Check now. On Business it also runs every six hours on its own, and emails you.
What you make Dynamic QR codes -
Job 3
Handing a document over as a link
A proposal, a report, a set of drawings: upload the PDF — up to 15 MB — and it is served over HTTPS from qrcodeharbor.com, with a code or a short link pointing at it. Put the code on the last slide of the deck so the room can take the document away. Files we host are readable by anyone who has the URL; there is no password and no access control, so anything genuinely confidential should keep going the way you already send confidential things.
What you make PDF QR code generator -
Job 4
A one-page profile instead of a website
The CV template in the page builder gives you experience, education, skills, a contact block and a gallery, dragged into place with no HTML and nothing to host. It is a page we serve at qrcodeharbor.com/p/your-slug, and it works as a practice profile, a partner bio or a capability statement just as well as a CV. A free account publishes 1 page carrying a small “Powered by QR Code Harbor” line; Pro publishes 5 without it.
What you make Profile page builder
Ledger & Co, two partners and a print run of cards
An invented firm, written out to show which codes should be static and which should not, and what each step costs. Nothing here is a customer, a testimonial or a measured result.
- Make a static vCard code for each partner and put it on the card back. Static, so it costs nothing, uses no slot, and keeps working when nobody is paying us anything.
- Build a profile page from the CV template — services, the two partners, a contact block. That is the 1 published page a free account gets.
- Make one dynamic code pointing at that page and use it on the window card and the sponsor board at the local rugby club, where reprinting is somebody else’s schedule.
- Upload the standard engagement-letter PDF and point the second dynamic code at it, so next year’s version replaces this one without a new code.
- When the firm moves office, edit the page. The cards, the window and the board all keep working, because none of them ever had the address printed inside the code.
- If the two dynamic slots start to bind — a code per client campaign, say — that is the point at which Pro’s 50 becomes worth $9.99 a month, and not before.
What this costs
The vector PDF, the EPS and the 4096 px PNG are free on every plan, because a file type is not a product. What the paid plans add is scale, history and the controls a firm with more printed surfaces needs.
No account
Free
- vCard, URL, email, phone and 33 other static QR types
- Vector PDF, SVG and EPS plus PNG and JPG to 4096 px — no watermark
- The business-card back template and nine others, decode-checked before download
- Up to 3 short links a day without signing in
/api/qr— a QR image from a URL with no key and no account, up to 2048 px and 60 requests a minute
A free account
Free
- 2 dynamic codes kept forever — the sign and the document
- 1 published profile page with a “Powered by QR Code Harbor” line at the foot
- A hosted PDF up to 15 MB, served over HTTPS
- A destination check when the code is scanned, at most once every six hours, plus a Check now button
Pro
$9.99/mo or $95/year
- 50 dynamic codes — a code per listing, per client, per campaign
- 5 pages with no “Powered by” line, and 15 saved designs
- Password-protect a code, pause it, or give it an expiry date
- A year of day-by-day history instead of 30 days
Business
$39/mo or $348/year
- 500 dynamic codes and three years of history
- A check every six hours, and an email when a listing or document URL stops answering
- Enquiry-form submissions exported as CSV
- The developer API and 50 pages
Five things worth being straight about
Two of them are limits of ours, which is why they are on this page rather than a support article.
- A hosted file is public to whoever has the link. There is no password on an uploaded PDF and no access log per viewer. Fine for a capability statement or a standard engagement letter; not fine for anything client-specific.
- A static code cannot be recalled. The vCard on five hundred printed cards contains the phone number itself. Change the number and the cards are wrong — which is the trade for the code costing nothing and depending on nobody. If a detail is likely to change within the life of the print run, that is the one to make dynamic.
- We notice a dead destination. On Business, every dynamic code is checked every six hours whether or not anyone scans it, and you get an email if it fails twice in a row. On every plan the check also runs on a real scan, at most once every six hours, and whenever you press Check now — this is what a scan does and does not record.
- Print one and scan it on the actual card stock, with the oldest phone in the office. Spot UV and heavy laminate defeat codes that look perfect on screen, and trimming into the pale quiet zone around the code is the single most common way a printed card stops working.
- A dynamic code depends on us; a static one does not. The short qrcodeharbor.com address is only a working code for as long as this site answers it. That is the real trade for being able to repoint it, and it is why the WiFi, vCard and calendar codes on this site stay static — those need nobody. The honest version of “never expires”.
Pages worth having open while you set this up
All of these are tools and guides on this site.
- vCard QR codeSaves a contact instead of opening a page.
- Business-card back85 × 55 mm, vector PDF, quiet zone allowed for.
- Profile page builderExperience, skills, contact block — no HTML.
- Dynamic QR codesFor the sign whose subject eventually changes.
- PDF QR codeHand a document over as a scannable link.
- Short linksFor the version that goes in an email footer.
- API documentationThe keyless free endpoint, and the Business API.
- Digital business cardsThe long-form guide.
- QR codes for agentsBoards, windows and listing links.
- Scan analyticsWhat a scan records — and what it deliberately does not.
Start with the card backs
It is the cheapest of the four, it needs no account, and it is the one people will actually use in front of you. The dynamic codes can wait until something is printed that you cannot reprint.