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I am sure you must have seen the barcode on labels of any products now a days. you can find the barcode on almost every article of our regular use like a soft drink bottle, a biscuit packet or any other such products.
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Well QR code(Quick Response) is also a barcode. It’s kind of a 2D metrix of square dots. The utility of keeping such barcode on a product is they can be read by a barcode reader machines. You must have seen in shopping malls where at the time of check out the person on the counter puts the articles in front of a machine and the price automatically gets detected in the billing software. QR code of also similar kind of barcode difference is its square in size.
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Now a days QR code is being used at large scale in many industries from product identification, tracking to marketing a product.
Recently a new use of QR codes has been developed. It can be used to login to a website. Just scan the QR code using you smartphone’s QR code scanner app or desktop app and you will be logged in to the website. Isn’t it amazing. No login id required, no password required. And the best part is its much secure then traditional userid password signin. Also there is a WordPress plugin for your website to sign in using QR code.
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Also you can get interesting marketing campaigns with QR code. like print some lucky numbers QR code on your product label and tell your customers to scan it. whoever get’s the lucky code wins a prize or some discount. Don’t you think customer will do it 🙂
You can also print QR code on your business card with your business information.
There are many tools available online where you can create QR code for yourself. list of top free QR code generator websites is given below.
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(1) http://goqr.me
(2) https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/
(5) http://www.qr-code-generator.com/
also there are some reasons why QR code is preferred. you can read them here.
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