Add a QR Code to Your Tickets
Let ticket holders open event details, a venue map, the schedule, or an add-on page with a single scan. With a dynamic GetQR code, you can update the destination later if times, venues, or links change, without reprinting your tickets.
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How Event Organizers Use QR Codes on Tickets
From printed tickets and ticket envelopes to passes and programs, see how a QR code can point attendees to the event information that changes after printing.
Why Put a QR Code on Tickets?
A ticket is small, and the details printed on it can go out of date: doors open earlier, a stage moves, a parking lot closes. A QR code gives ticket holders a direct way to open the current schedule, venue map, or program without searching for your event page. With a dynamic GetQR code, you can update the destination up to the day of the event, so the page can change even though the printed ticket cannot.
Answer Arrival Questions Before the Gate
Give attendees a direct link to doors-open time, entrance locations, bag policy, parking, and accessibility information instead of making them search for your event page on the day.
Update Event Details Without Reprinting
Time change? New stage? Updated map? Edit the destination from your GetQR account. Tickets already in attendees’ hands can continue to open the current page.
Fit Programs and Maps Behind a Small Ticket
A ticket stub can’t hold a full schedule, floor plan, or seating chart. Link to a digital program, venue map, or seating guide that attendees can open when they need it.
Offer Add-Ons After Purchase
Send ticket holders to a page for upgrades, parking passes, merchandise pre-orders, or sponsor offers. The QR code opens the page; the purchase still happens on your store or platform.
Compare Scans by Ticket Type or Placement
Use separate QR codes for different events, ticket types, or placements such as the ticket, envelope, and pass, and compare their scan activity in your GetQR dashboard. Scan counts show how often each code is opened; they are not entry or attendance numbers.
Features Built for Ticketed Events
Create QR codes you can update after printing, match to your event branding, and track from your GetQR dashboard. Use them on printed tickets, envelopes, passes, and programs.
Change the link behind a printed QR code, such as a schedule, map, program, or add-on page, from your dashboard. If details change after tickets are printed, future scans can open the updated page.
Match your event colors, add a logo, and include frame text such as “Scan for Event Info” or “Scan for Schedule.” Keep the code dark on a light background so it stays easy to scan at the venue.
See how often each QR code is scanned and review scan activity over time. Use separate codes for different events, ticket types, or placements to compare scan counts between them.
Download your QR code as SVG, EPS, PDF, PNG, or JPG. Use SVG or EPS for ticket artwork that needs to print sharply, or a high-resolution PNG or PDF for layout tools and digital ticket designs.
Create separate codes for different events, ticket types, or placements and manage them from one GetQR dashboard, keeping each code connected to the right destination.
Create a Ticket QR Code in Three Steps
Choose a destination, style the code, and export a print-ready file in three steps.
6 Practical Ways to Use QR Codes on Tickets
From arrival information and schedules to add-ons and post-event surveys, here are practical ways to use a QR code on a ticket.
Share Event Details and Arrival Info
Link the ticket to a page with doors-open time, entrances, parking, bag policy, and accessibility information, and keep it current as the event approaches. For gate entry, keep using the code from your ticketing platform; a GetQR code opens a link and doesn’t validate tickets.
Update Schedules and Lineups
Send ticket holders to a live schedule for a festival, conference, or tournament. When a set time, session, or stage changes, update the page rather than printing a new ticket.
Provide Venue Maps and Seating Guides
Link to a map showing entrances, seating sections, restrooms, and food areas, so attendees can find their way without asking staff.
Promote Add-Ons and Upgrades
Open a page for parking passes, VIP upgrades, merchandise pre-orders, or sponsor offers. Use a separate code on the ticket and the envelope to compare which one is scanned more.
Connect Hybrid and Virtual Attendees
Add a code to tickets or confirmation cards that opens the live-stream or virtual-event page, with instructions for joining. Update the link if the streaming platform or session changes.
Collect Feedback and Promote the Next Event
After the event, switch the destination to a short feedback survey, a photo or highlights page, or registration for the next event. The same printed ticket keeps pointing somewhere useful after the show ends.
Manage Ticket Codes Across Events
Create a separate QR code for each event, ticket type, or placement and manage them from one GetQR dashboard. Update destinations as schedules, maps, and offers change, without reprinting tickets already in attendees’ hands.
Ticket QR Code Print Tips
Use Strong Contrast
Place a dark QR code on a light, solid background so it scans in dim venue lighting. Avoid printing the code over photos, gradients, or event artwork.
Size It for How Attendees Will Scan
Make the code large enough to scan comfortably from the distance where it will be used, and larger if people will scan in crowds or while moving. Test at the final printed size rather than relying on a fixed measurement.
Keep the Quiet Zone Clear
Leave an empty margin on all four sides of the code. Keep perforations, fold lines, tear-off edges, and text out of this space so phone cameras can find the edges of the code.
Prefer Vector or High-Resolution Files
Export SVG, EPS, or press-ready PDF where possible so the code stays sharp on printed tickets. Use a high-resolution PNG for digital designs.
Test Under Venue Conditions
Print a sample on the actual ticket stock and scan it with several phones in lighting similar to the venue. If tickets will also be shown on screens, test at normal screen brightness.
Add a Clear Label
Use short text such as “Scan for Event Info” or “Scan for Schedule” next to the code. The label should describe what opens after the scan, so avoid “Scan for Entry” unless the code links to your ticketing platform’s entry page.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about QR codes on tickets.
Yes, if you use a dynamic GetQR code. You can update the destination from your dashboard at any time. The printed code stays the same, and future scans open the new link.
No. A GetQR code opens the link you choose; it doesn’t verify individual tickets, prevent duplicates, or record check-ins. For gate entry, use the barcode or QR code generated by your ticketing platform, and use a GetQR code for event information, maps, schedules, and offers.
No. Most modern iPhone and Android cameras scan QR codes without a separate app. Attendees open the camera and point it at the code.
Yes. Dynamic GetQR codes show how many times each code is scanned and when, so you can compare scan activity between events, ticket types, or placements. These are scan counts, not attendance or entry numbers.
You can place a GetQR code on a printed ticket, a ticket PDF, or a confirmation email to link to event information. Digital wallet passes and gate-entry codes are normally generated by your ticketing platform, so check what your platform supports.
Use SVG or EPS if your printer accepts vector files, since they stay sharp at any size. A press-ready PDF or a high-resolution PNG also works, including for digital ticket designs. Ask your printer which format they prefer.
Place it where attendees will see it without covering essential ticket details such as the event name, date, seat, and your ticketing platform’s entry code. Keep clear space around it, away from perforations and folds, and add a short label such as “Scan for Event Info.”
There is no single size that works for every ticket. Make the code large enough to scan comfortably from the distance where it will be used, and larger where people scan in crowds. Print a sample at the final size and test it with more than one phone before the full print run.
Yes. You can create separate codes for different events, ticket types, or placements and manage them from your GetQR dashboard. Separate codes let you compare scan activity between them.
A single code opens one destination at a time. To send VIP, general admission, or student ticket holders to different pages, create a separate code for each ticket type.