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Tracked links and QR codes: the offline half

Print has always been the thing nobody could measure. You spend $2,500 wrapping a vehicle and the honest answer about what it earned is a shrug. This fixes that.

Make one

Open Link Tracking, name the thing ("Fall flyer", "Audi wrap"), point it at a page on your site, and you get a short link and a QR code. Connect your domain (next section) and they mint on your own domain, your name on the truck; until then they serve from our standard hostname. Codes printed either way keep working forever.

Your own domain, for real: t.yourcompany.com

On the Links page, the Your link domain card puts your name on every code: enter a subdomain like t.yourcompany.com and new links and QR codes mint on it instead of on our hostname. We look up where your DNS actually lives and say so, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, wherever, with a button straight into your DNS settings at providers we recognise, and the record values beside copy buttons for anywhere else. One CNAME, pointed at a target that is yours alone (that target is how we know the domain is really yours), press Check, and the certificate issues itself. Codes already printed on the standard hostname keep working forever, and the card tells you plainly that disconnecting a domain stops codes printed on it, before you do it.

Any domain you own can do this job

Three setups cover nearly everyone, and the card walks you through whichever one you type.

A name beside your website. The usual choice: add t.yourcompany.com or go.yourcompany.com. Your website does not move and nothing about it changes.

A whole domain you bought for print. Say a pool company buys needacleanpool.com just for its trucks, while the real site lives at sparklingpools.com. Domain roots cannot point at a service like ours; that is a rule of DNS itself, not a rule of ours. So the links go on go.needacleanpool.com, and the registrar forwards the bare needacleanpool.com to go.needacleanpool.com, a setting most registrars include at no charge. Type the bare domain into the card and it lays out exactly this plan, with a button that fills in the go. name for you. The printed symbol never spells its address out; the go. name appears only in the printed line under the code and in the little preview a phone shows at scan time. And because the bare domain forwards through us, the person who ignores the code and types just the domain still lands on the site and still gets counted as truck traffic.

Not a name that already has a job. Pointing a name at us takes it over. www.yourcompany.com is almost never the right choice, because it is usually your website. If the name you enter already answers to something, the card says so before you change any records, instead of letting you take your own site down.

When someone types the domain with no code

A person who sees a truck and later types the link domain into their phone, with no code on the end, lands on your website, counted as coming from that domain. If you would rather send them somewhere specific, a seasonal offer, a booking page, the card has a landing page setting. Leave it empty and your website is the default.

Why your own domain matters more than it sounds

Because the scan happens on your domain, we can identify the visitor at the moment they scan, before they even reach your website. The flyer that sent them is attached to them from the first second, so the attribution survives a landing page that strips query strings, a redirect, or a site whose own tracking is broken. That is the whole reason we serve the redirect instead of baking your website address into the symbol.

One honest detail: that instant recognition needs the link domain to share your website's domain, t.sparklingpools.com beside sparklingpools.com. A separate print domain like go.needacleanpool.com attributes through the campaign tags carried on the redirect instead, the same way a Google ad click does, so every scan still lands in the right column.

You can change where it points. Forever.

The code itself never changes, because it is on paper and paper does not get software updates. Everything else you can edit any time. Point a Christmas flyer at your spring offer in April and every code already printed follows along. Nothing gets reprinted.

Put your icon in the middle

Tick the box and we read the icon from the site you are sending people to and build it into the code. It is embedded, not fetched, so it prints correctly on a machine with no internet. The symbol carries extra error correction to make room for it and still scans. If your site only offers an old style icon, or the code is too long to hold one, we say so on the card rather than quietly handing you a symbol with a hole in the middle.

What it cost, and what it made

Tell us what the run cost, once. It lands on your dashboard as print spend on the day you paid for it, exactly the way ad spend behaves, so a wrap paid for in January sits in January and the revenue it earns in March sits in March. You get cost per lead and ROAS for paper, next to Google and Meta, on the same screen.

Test it before the printer does

Download the SVG, which prints at any size without going fuzzy, and scan it with your own phone first. Every print job that ever went wrong went wrong because nobody did this.

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