Several businesses, one overview: QR code domains for brands and locations

One venue with one menu is quickly done. It gets interesting with three locations, two brands under one roof or an agency printing for several clients. Then the question comes up: everything on one address, or kept apart?

One subdomain per brand or location

For every brand with its own website, a separate subdomain makes sense, for example qr.yourcompany.com for the first and qr.secondbrand.com for the second. Guests see a name they recognise in the browser, and you keep brands cleanly apart. If several locations belong to the same brand, one subdomain is usually enough, and you tell the locations apart by the path.

A rule of thumb: one subdomain per presence that a guest sees as independent. Everything else you organise inside the domain.

How many domains your plan allows

At Same-QR, the number of domains you can connect depends on the plan:

• Free and Gastro Starter: no own domain, codes run via sameqr.com/r/…
• Gastro Pro and Marketing Starter: 1 domain
• Marketing Pro: 3 domains
• Gastro Expert: 5 domains
• Marketing Expert: 10 domains
• Agentur: 50 domains

So count first how many presences you really need. If you run three brands, one domain will not do when each brand should appear under its own name. In that case Marketing Pro would be the smallest plan that fits.

Order through paths

When you create a new code, you choose the address: sameqr.com/r/… or one of your connected domains. You pick the path yourself, such as qr.yourcompany.com/menu, or let it be generated randomly (10 characters). Important: each path exists only once per domain, and it stays taken even after you delete the code. So plan the names before you print.

• One location per path area: /london/menu, /leeds/menu
• Occasion in the name: /lunch, /brunch, /wine-list
• Short and speaking, without a year, so the code still fits next year

Labels for the overview

Paths organise the address, labels organise your dashboard. Give each location or brand a label, and with two dozen codes you find the right one at once without reading through paths. The two complement each other: the path tells the guest where they are going, the label helps you manage.

If you change plans

If you move to a smaller plan, codes on already connected domains keep working. You can create new codes only on as many domains as the new plan allows. A domain can only be removed once no code is left on it. So your printed codes do not vanish overnight.

The domain stays yours

The domain belongs to you, not to the service. If you switch providers later, you change the CNAME. Printed codes keep working if the new provider can serve the same paths on your domain. That is why it pays to keep paths consistent from the start.

Taking short links from your old provider along

If your old provider gave you short links on your own domain, such as go.yourcompany.com/abc, you can carry them over. In the dashboard, under “QR Codes”, start the migration assistant via “Move from another provider” and upload a CSV or XLSX with the column “Old short link”. Then you connect the domain in Same-QR and change the CNAME, and the printed codes redirect without reprinting. Short links on the old provider’s own domain (such as qrco.de) cannot be carried over. There you can only change the target at the old provider or print anew.

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