How to Create a Free QR Code for Survey [A Short Guide]

Surveys are a frictionless tool for gathering feedback, and engaging your audience in polls.

But what makes the survey smooth is the absence of a roadblock while sharing them. Your audience must find it hassle-free to access and respond to the survey. 

You can minimize this journey for your audience by creating a free QR Code for survey. You can share it offline or online. Your target audience can scan the QR Code, access the survey and record their responses.

If you want to share a survey at an event or boost your response rates, you can use Uniqode’s QR Code creator to create a survey QR Code. 

Read on to find out how.

Table of contents

1. How to create a free QR Code for a survey
2. Can dynamic QR Codes help boost responses over static QR Codes?
3. Best practices to follow while creating a survey QR Code
4. Frequently asked questions

How to create a free QR Code for a survey

With Uniqode, creating a QR Code for your survey requires no signup. All you need is the link to your survey and our QR Code generator.

Here’s how to create a survey QR Code in three steps (detailed description below):
1. Copy the URL to your survey

2. Open Uniqode’s QR Code Generator 

3. Input the URL, customize and download the QR Code

Step 1: Copy the link to your online survey

Open the survey you’ve created on any third-party platform, and copy the link. 

In this instance, let’s consider a Google Form. Copy the URL of the form.

Step 2: Open Uniqode’s QR Code Generator and insert the survey URL

The URL option is the default setting on our generator. Paste the link to the survey in the “Website (URL)” field below. 

Step 3: Customize and download the free survey QR Code 

You can choose from the free color palette to modify the color of the QR Code and its pattern (the pixels that make up the QR Code). 

On the free generator, you can download the QR Code in PNG format only.

With your survey QR Code downloaded, you can share it offline or online. Users can scan and access your survey. 

Sharing the free survey QR Code: Things to remember 

Let’s say you share the survey QR Code on brochures with your team.

You wait around for responses, but then see that there were none recorded. Later, you discover that the survey link you shared with the QR Code was incorrect! 

Many users also did not realize that the QR Code was meant for the survey and ignored it. 

Now that you’ve distributed your survey QR Code, there’s no option but to generate a new QR Code with the right survey link, print, and re-distribute.

So, what exactly did free QR Codes limit you from doing? 

1. Inability to edit the destination URL post-printing
2. Not enough options to customize the survey QR Code and make it on brand 
3. Lack of options to add a frame such as “Scan for survey”
4. No options to track scan location, device used, campaign performance, etc. 

But what if this could be avoided? In fact, it just needs a simple upgrade to dynamic, paid QR Codes.

A sign-up on Uniqode unlocks full access to all these features, and a dashboard that lets you track your survey QR Code’s performance.

This way, you can try out all the benefits of a dynamic (paid) QR Code and decide if a free survey QR Code is a better option for your use case.  

Can dynamic QR Codes for survey help boost responses over free survey QR Codes? 

With free QR Codes, there’s a chance of missed responses if the survey link is wrong or if the audience is wary of a black-and-white QR Code.

To boost engagement and responses with QR Codes, it’s important to enforce trust via branding and customization.

With dynamic QR Codes, you can unlock a full suite of features to boost responses when sharing surveys via QR Codes. You can: 

1. Customize every aspect of the QR Code such as its color, shape, frame, eye patterns, and so on—and save the design on the dashboard. 
2. Add a logo to your survey QR Code to make it on-brand and build customer trust. 
3. Add text in the frame or CTAs such as “Scan to answer survey,” or “Scan to enter responses,” etc., to give a sense of what to expect upon scanning
4. Give multi-lingual support to fill surveys in different languages (given that multi-lingual forms are created separately) via “Multi-language support.” Scanning a survey QR Code automatically triggers the survey in the preferred language set in the scanner’s mobile device.
5. Password-protect your surveys to add an extra layer of security. Your survey can reach the intended audience while preventing false or incorrect entries. 

Additionally, you also get access to data that can help you enhance your future survey campaigns or modify existing ones, such as:

1. Access detailed data analytics on the number of QR Code scans, scan time, and duration of the engagement. You can use this data to estimate the response and success rates of your campaign.
2. Enable GPS tracking (permission-based) and optimize on-field survey campaigns based on which location attracted more scans and responses.

This way, the features that dynamic survey QR Codes bring to the table surpass the features that free survey QR Codes offer.

Best practices to create a QR Code for survey

To ensure that your survey QR Code is scannable at all times, here are a few best practices to keep in mind for free or paid survey QR Codes.

Create a free QR Code for survey with Uniqode

You can create a free QR Code for survey with Uniqode, download, and share it. 

But when you upgrade to dynamic QR Codes on Uniqode, you can customize and control who sees your survey, derive analytics on its performance, and even add a CTA to boost responses. 

This way, you move from the basic sharing options that free QR Codes offer to have more control over your survey campaigns.

Want to try creating a survey QR Code for your next use case? Here’s how you can start with our 14-day free trial. 

Frequently asked questions

1. How do I create a QR Code for free survey?

You can get a free QR Code for a survey in six simple steps:

1. Copy the survey URL/link 
2. Open Uniqode’s QR Code generator 
3. From the options, choose “URL” as the type of free QR Code, or if you want to go for dynamic, choose the free 14-day trial
4. Input the URL of the survey
5. Customize your survey QR Code
6. Test, and download the survey QR Code

2. How do I create an online poll QR Code?

You can easily create an online poll QR Code. Copy the poll link, visit our QR Code generator homepage, click “URL” as the campaign, paste the URL, customize, and download your QR Code. 

• Author Details

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Navya Muralidhar

Navya is an ardent writer focusing on the benefits of QR Codes for businesses. She has been writing about QR Code topics into action oriented guides since 2019. Presently, she helps people understand the benefits of paid QR Code solutions as a powerful marketing tool. To know more about her work around QR Codes, click here.

navya.m@beaconstac.com