QR Code for Shop Location: Send Customers to Your Maps Pin

To make a QR code for your shop location, copy your shop's Google Maps share link and paste it into a link QR code. When a customer scans it, their phone opens your pin in Maps with the Directions button one tap away.

It suits shops that are hard to find: first floor, behind a market lane, or inside a complex. Print it where the customer is already holding something: the bill, the delivery bag, the visiting card.

How do I make the QR code?

1. Open Google Maps on your phone and search for your shop by name. If it does not appear, the first job is to add your business listing.
2. Tap Share on your shop's page and copy the link.
3. Paste the link into the QR code generator as a link.
4. Download the PNG for printing on paper or the SVG for a signboard printer.
5. Scan it with two different phones before you print anything.

Try it here

QR Code Generator

Same settings as the full tool page.

Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to our server. Open the full QR Code Generator page

Check that the pin sits on your doorway and not on the main road. That is the single most common problem: customers follow the pin and arrive at the wrong lane.

Where to put it

Place	Why it works
Printed bill	The customer keeps it for the return trip
Delivery bag or box	Reaches people who never visited
Visiting card	Replaces the "landmark" line
Shop shutter or board	Helps people who stand outside and check
Wedding or event card	Guests find the venue without calls

For a card with several links, the wedding card QR guide shows how to keep one code per purpose.

Size and contrast: how to avoid a code that will not scan

A QR code has to be dark on light, with a clear blank border around it. Do not put it over a patterned background, and do not stretch it into a rectangle.

FixDoks does not give a single "right" print size, because it depends on how far the customer stands. Use this simple test instead: print a sample, stick it where it will hang and scan it from the distance a customer would stand. If your phone needs a second try, make it bigger.

A logo in the centre looks smart but hides part of the code. Scan after adding it. If it fails, drop the logo or use a smaller one.

Will it stop working?

A link QR holds the link itself. The code works as long as the Maps link works, and it does not expire on its own. The flip side is that you cannot edit it later. If the shop moves, you print a new code.

A code that goes through another company's server can stop when a trial ends. A code that holds your plain Maps link does not depend on that. Open the link in a browser first to be sure where it goes.

What to write next to the code

A bare square gives no reason to scan. Add one short line in plain words, such as "Scan for directions to our shop" or "Lost? Scan to find us". Write it in the language your customers read, Hindi, English or both.

Keep the line close to the code, directly above or below it. If the sticker also carries your phone number, put the number on a separate line so nobody mistakes it for part of the code.

Two codes, two jobs

Do not try to make one code do everything. A location code opens a map. A payment code opens a UPI app. A review code opens a review page. When you stack three different codes on one counter, customers hesitate over which to scan.

Label each one clearly and keep them apart. If you only have room for one, choose the one that answers the question customers ask you most often. For a shop that people struggle to find, that is the location.

Keeping the pin right over time

Look at your pin once in a while. If you move to another floor or lane, the old printed codes will keep sending people to the old place. Remove or cover the old stickers on the same day you move, and print new ones.

The same goes for a temporary stall. A code for a Diwali stall should carry the stall's own location, not your main shop's, so create a separate code for it and take it down when the stall closes.

Common mistakes

• Pointing the QR at a search-results page instead of the shop's own page.
• Not testing on both an Android phone and an iPhone.
• Printing it too small on a visiting card.
• Putting it behind glass with a bright reflection. Scan it in daylight.

If a customer reports that the code does not read, ask them to scan with the normal camera app. Our QR code scanner also reads it from a photo.

Once the location code works, add a code for payments with the UPI QR code generator, and keep each code on its own sticker.

Want customers to leave a review as well? That is a separate code: see the Google review QR guide.

Checklist before you print

• The Maps pin is on your doorway.
• You opened the link in a browser and it shows your shop.
• Scanned on two phones.
• Dark code, light background, blank border.
• A line of text under it, such as "Scan for directions".

Tools for this

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Google Maps Help: Share, send, or print directions from Google Maps (checked 2026-10)
• RBI BE(A)WARE: never scan a QR code to receive money (checked 2026-10)

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