Codes Never Die

Menus. Packaging. Business cards. Flyers. Stickers on the back of your laptop. The sign in your shop window. The label on your product. QR codes live in the physical world, and the physical world doesn't have an undo button.

When a QR code tool deactivates your codes — because you cancelled, or your trial expired, or you downgraded to a cheaper plan — every printed instance becomes a dead link. Not a broken page. Not a 404. A completely unresponsive square of ink that your customers are pointing their phones at, getting nothing.

That's not a software problem. It's a trust problem. And it's the reason we built Dead Simple QR differently.

6 of 10 major QR code generators deactivate your codes when you cancel or downgrade. Some do it when your free trial expires. Some do it when you switch to a lower plan. Some do it and don't tell you until a customer scans a dead code on the menu you printed last month.

This isn't a bug — it's leverage. Your printed materials become the enforcement mechanism for their subscription. Keep paying, or your codes go dark.

We think that's wrong. See the full breakdown →

Every dynamic QR code you create with Dead Simple QR points to a short URL on dsqr.io — something like dsqr.io/abc. When someone scans your code, they hit that URL, and our redirect service sends them to your destination.

That redirect service is permanent infrastructure. It runs independently of your account status. Whether you're on the free plan, the Pro plan, or no plan at all, the redirect keeps working. Cancel your subscription, and the only thing that changes is your ability to edit the destination or view analytics. The code itself never stops.

This wasn't an afterthought. We designed it this way from day one because we believe once you print a QR code, it's yours. Not ours to hold, not ours to revoke, not ours to ransom.