Google Review QR Code Generator
Paste your Place ID. Get a code that opens the Google review form on the first tap. Free, no signup, generated in your browser.
A Place ID gives the direct review form. A Maps link or a name still works, it just lands one tap earlier.
Paste something above and the code appears here. It is generated in your browser: nothing is sent to us, and the QR points straight at Google rather than through a redirect we could count.
Getting your Place ID takes twenty seconds
- 01
Open Google's Place ID Finder
It lives at
developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-id. No account, no key, just a map with a search box. - 02
Search your business, click the pin
The ID appears under the map. It starts with
ChIJand it does not change, which is why a code built from it outlives your website. - 03
Paste it above
Download the SVG for anything printed, the PNG for anything on a screen. That is the whole job.
Where the code actually gets scanned
The default instinct is the front door or the window. Almost nobody scans there: people arriving have not experienced anything yet, and people leaving are already walking. A review QR works where two things are true at once, the experience is finished and the customer's hands are still.
In practice that means the receipt or the bill folder, the table card during coffee, the confirmation email or SMS after a service, and the back of the card a hairdresser or a mechanic hands over at the end. A code on the counter beside the till gets scanned far more than one on the door, for the same reason.
Put it where the experience just ended and the hands are still, not where the customer is walking.
Three things that kill a review QR
No sentence next to it. A naked square asks a stranger to gamble a tap. One line, in plain words, doubles as instruction and permission: "Two taps to leave us a Google review."
Printed too small, or on a glossy stand. Under two centimetres, phones hesitate. Behind glare, they fail. It is a boring failure mode and it accounts for most codes that quietly go unused.
Asking only the customers you expect to be happy. Filtering who gets the code by how the visit seemed to go is review gating, and the FTC rule that made it illegal carries penalties up to 53,088 USD per violation with no small-business exemption. Give the same code to everyone, which is also the version that keeps working when a regulator, or Yelp, looks at how your reviews arrived.
After the code, the part nobody sets up
A QR raises the number of reviews arriving. It does nothing about what happens next, and what happens next is where the value is: 19% of consumers now expect a reply the same day they post, and 74% only count reviews from the last three months. Our piece on how fast a reply has to be covers what that means in practice, and asking properly covers the wording that gets the code scanned in the first place.
Questions people actually ask
Is the QR code free, and does it expire?
Free, and it never expires. It encodes a Google URL directly, not a redirect through us, so there is no account behind it that can lapse and no service that can go down and take your printed cards with it.
Where do I find my Place ID?
Google publishes a finder at developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-id. Search your business on the map, click it, and the ID appears underneath. It starts with ChIJ.
Can I ask every customer to leave a review?
Yes, as long as you ask everyone the same way. What is not allowed is filtering: asking how it went, then routing the happy ones to Google and the unhappy ones to a private form. That is review gating, it carries penalties up to 53,088 USD per violation under the FTC Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule, and Yelp puts a public Consumer Alert on businesses caught doing it.
Does anything I type here reach Ansview?
No. The code is generated by JavaScript in your browser. There is no request, no log, and no signup, which is also why it keeps working if you close this tab and print the file tomorrow.
How big should the printed code be?
Two centimetres across is the floor for a code someone scans at arm's length, and four is comfortable on a table card. Download the SVG rather than the PNG for anything printed: it stays sharp at any size.