Create QR Codes for Your Bank
Customers pick up leaflets in branches, read posters in windows and see adverts on the street, and each one usually asks them to remember a web address. A QR code can open the right page: an appointment form, an app download, a branch finder. A GetQR dynamic code opens a link and carries no account details.
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Where Banks and Credit Unions Use QR Codes
Branch windows, leaflet racks, ATM lobbies and campus stalls. The page behind each scan has to match the moment.
Why Add a QR Code to Bank Marketing and Signage?
Banks have plenty of printed material and very little room on it. Rates change, campaigns end and branch hours shift while the leaflet stays the same. A QR code lets the printed piece point to a page you keep current. The code only opens a link, so it should never hold account numbers, card details or other personal information.
Give the detail somewhere to live
Terms, rates and eligibility need more room than a leaflet has. A page gives the full detail without crowding the leaflet, and the printed piece can keep the headline offer and the wording the rules require.
Reach people outside opening hours
A window poster or a lobby notice works when the branch is closed. A scan lets someone book an appointment or find the nearest branch at nine at night, when nobody is at the desk.
Let people check where it leads
People are right to be careful with QR codes. Print your bank’s name and web address beside every code so customers can see where it goes before they scan. Keep codes on materials you control.
Separate codes for each branch or campaign
Give each branch, product and campaign its own code and compare scan counts in your dashboard. The counts show scans only. They don’t show applications, accounts or customer satisfaction.
Help customers choose their next step
A code can open the appointment page, the app download page or the branch finder, so a customer in the lobby or at the window can pick the next step on their own phone. Staff still help anyone who prefers to ask.
Features for Banking and Financial Teams
Put a code on your print and see how often each one is scanned.
When a rate changes, a campaign ends or a page moves, update the destination in your dashboard. The code on the leaflet, window poster or branch banner stays the same and sends people to the current page, so a finished print run doesn’t go to waste.
Add your colors, a small logo and a short line such as “Scan to book.” Keep the code dark on a light background and the logo small. A code that scans every time matters more than a clever design on a leaflet.
See how often each code is scanned over time. Separate codes for the branch window, the leaflet rack and the campus banner show which ones people use. GetQR counts scans only. Applications and accounts are recorded in your own systems.
Download SVG or EPS for the print supplier or sign-maker, or PDF and PNG for leaflets and slides you lay out yourself. The code stays sharp from a small leaflet back page to a large branch banner, and a proof is worth asking for.
A bank with many branches, products and campaigns can give each its own code and manage them together. A change to one branch’s page doesn’t touch another’s, and one dashboard shows which codes are active and which campaigns they belong to.
Set Up a QR Code for Your Bank
Choose an official page, make it clear and test the printed piece.
Six Ways Banks Use QR Codes
Every one of these opens a page. None of them carries account information.
Branch Windows and Entrances
Put a code on the window poster or door sign that opens your appointment page or opening hours, so people passing outside can act after closing time. Print the hours on the sign as well, and make sure the page is current, since a wrong time is a poor first impression. Test it from the pavement in the evening.
Leaflets and Product Brochures
Add a code to the back page of a leaflet that opens the full product details, rates page or eligibility information. Keep key terms printed on the leaflet where regulation requires, and treat the page as extra detail. Link each leaflet to its own page so details stay matched. Check the page loads on a phone first.
App Download Pages
A code on a poster or a counter card can open your app’s download page, so customers can install it from their phone. Link to the official page that the app store provides, not a copy. Check which store page opens on iPhone and which on Android before you print. Add a short line saying which app it is.
Branch Finders and Hours
Put a code on an ATM notice or a statement insert that opens your branch locator or the hours of a specific branch. Show the branch name and address at the top of the page, since people arrive from a notice and want confirmation. Check the page on a phone first. Print the branch name on the notice.
Financial Education Events
Add a code to banners and invitations for a workshop or school visit that opens the schedule, the location and the registration page. Update it if the date moves. Anyone without a phone should still find the time and place printed on the material, so keep those basics visible. Test the registration page on a phone first.
Careers and Recruitment
Put a code on a careers fair banner or a recruitment poster that opens your vacancies page or an application form. Say how to apply if someone can’t use the form. Keep the form short, and say what you will do with the details people give you, in plain words at the top. Test the form on a phone first.
Managing Many Branches and Campaigns?
Give each branch, product and campaign its own code and manage them all from one dashboard. A bank with many branches can then see which branch signs and leaflets get scanned.
Printing QR Codes for Branches and Leaflets
Show the Bank’s Name and Address
Print the bank’s name and web address beside the code so customers can check where it leads. Anyone might stick another code over yours, so people need a way to compare.
Fix Codes Where You Can Check Them
Put codes on materials inside the branch or in places staff look at regularly, and check them often. A sticker placed over yours would be hard to spot on an outdoor poster.
Strong Contrast, Plain Background
Place the code on a clean light area, away from photos and busy patterns. Branch posters often use rich backgrounds, so keep the code clear of the artwork.
Keep the Border Clear
Leave empty space on all four sides, and keep text, logos and the edge of the leaflet out of it.
Size for the Distance
A leaflet is read at arm’s length and a window poster from a step or two away. Make the code large enough for the distance and test it at the final size.
Test on Several Phones
Scan a printed sample on a few phones, including an older one, in the branch’s lighting, and open the page on mobile data as well as Wi-Fi.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What bank and financial marketing teams ask before they print.
A GetQR code opens a link. It isn’t a payment code and shouldn’t carry account numbers. To let customers pay, link to your payment page, or use the payment-code format that your bank or payment provider offers.
No. Anyone who scans the code can see where it leads. Keep account numbers, card details and personal information out of both the code and the page it opens, and link only to official pages.
Print your bank’s name and web address beside every code so customers can check where it leads. Place codes where staff can inspect them, check them regularly and replace damaged ones. Treat codes in unwatched places with extra care.
Tell them the code opens an official page, and that you will never ask for passwords, PINs or full card details after a scan. Put that sentence on the page and in your branch materials.
First, update the page the code points to. Then scan a printed piece to check it opens the new page. Then remove any rates printed beside the code, so the page is the only place the number lives.
Choose a plain light spot on the back page and place the file with a clear border. Link the code to the page for that product, print a test and scan it, and send the artwork to the printer only after it passes.
You can, if every branch should open the same page. If hours or services differ by branch, give each branch its own code.
Name the bank at the top, say in a sentence what the page is for, and give a phone number for anyone unsure. Customers arriving from a scan want to know they’re in the right place before they read anything else.
Yes. A QR code doesn’t replace wording that rules require on the printed piece. Check your regulator’s rules on advertising, product disclosures and rates, and keep the required text printed.
Dynamic codes show scan counts in your dashboard. Use separate codes for each branch or campaign to compare them. GetQR counts scans only. Applications and accounts are tracked in your own systems.
At about eye level, on a plain light area, away from the edges and from reflections. Check it from the pavement at different times of day, since glass catches different light in the morning and in the evening.
Have them check the code against the printed web address, and say that you never ask for passwords, PINs or full card details after a scan. Give staff one sentence to use, so every branch says the same thing.