Calendar event QR code generator
A code that adds your event to someone's calendar with the name, place and times already filled in.
- Free to use
- No account needed
- Tested before you download
- Ready to print
Step 1
What should this code do?
Adds a calendar event
Step 2 · Make it yours (optional. A plain code works great.)
Colour
Every one of these is dark enough to survive print. Pick one, or set your own below.
#000000
#ffffff
Codes with a label are scanned noticeably more often than bare ones.
A logo covers modules. We raise error correction to compensate and then decode the finished code to confirm it still reads.
Higher settings keep the code readable even if it gets scuffed or partly covered, but pack the dots tighter. Standard is right for almost everyone.
Step 3
We’ll tell you exactly how big to print it so it scans easily from that distance.
Common questions
- Can the code add my event straight to someone's calendar?
- Yes. It uses the calendar format both iPhone and Android understand, so scanning offers to add the event with your name, place and times already set, rather than making the person type them in.
- What stops me publishing an event that ends before it starts?
- We check the times first. An end earlier than the start, or a date that does not make sense, is refused rather than written into a code that a calendar app will silently reject. It is a small check that prevents a printed code that quietly fails to work.
Before you print
Size is the most common failure, but it is not the only one.
- Test the actual print, not the screen
- Scan it from the physical proof, at the distance and in the lighting people will really use, with an older phone if you have one. A code that scans on a monitor can fail on paper.
- Keep the quiet zone empty
- The blank margin around the code is part of the code. Scanners use it to find the edges. Placing text or a border inside it is the most common design mistake.
- Avoid glossy lamination where you can
- Gloss reflects overhead light straight back into the camera and washes out the pattern. Matt finishes scan far more reliably indoors.
- Do not print on a curve if you can avoid it
- Bottles, cups and cylinders distort the pattern. If you must, keep the code small relative to the curve and use a higher error correction level.
- Tell people what they get
- A code with no label is scanned far less often than one that says what happens next. 'Scan to see the menu' outperforms a bare code consistently.