QR codes for plumbers, electricians and home services
Your van is a billboard that parks outside your customers’ neighbours.
The van is the most valuable surface you own
A service van parks for an hour or more outside a house, in a street full of people with the same housing stock and therefore the same problems. A code on the rear doors is read by neighbours at walking pace.
Rear doors beat side panels: people approach from behind at traffic lights and in car parks, and the rear is flat where sides often curve. Print large — 20cm minimum, because it will be read from several metres — and in plain black on white vinyl.
The invoice code almost nobody uses
Put a code on every invoice and job sheet pointing at a review page. You have just finished the work, the customer is satisfied, and they are holding a piece of paper. That is the highest-intent moment in the entire relationship, and most trades let it pass.
Use a dynamic code so you can switch it between Google, Checkatrade, Trustpilot or whichever platform matters to you that year, without reprinting your invoice stationery.
Door hangers and the follow-up problem
If you leave a card after a no-answer call, a code pointing at an online booking form converts considerably better than a phone number, because it works at 11pm when the householder actually reads it.
Point it at a form, not your homepage. A homepage asks the visitor to find the booking page; a direct form asks them to fill in three fields.
Durability
- Vinyl on a van needs error correction H. Road grime, stone chips and washing all degrade the surface, and H recovers around 30%.
- Keep the code off the curve. Wrapping around a wheel arch or a door seam distorts the grid; alignment patterns correct some of this, not all.
- Reflective vinyl defeats cameras under headlights. Use standard matte.
A realistic setup
- Van code → booking form or phone-and-book landing page.
- Invoice code → review page.
- Door hanger code → booking form with the estate or area as a UTM, so you can see which neighbourhoods respond.
Three codes, which the free plan covers. Make them dynamic so the destinations can change as your booking system does.
Start with three codes, free
The setup above fits inside our free plan: three dynamic codes, unlimited static codes, no scan limit, and no credit card. If you outgrow it, Starter is $4 a month for 25 codes.
And whichever way that goes — the codes you print keep resolving even if you stop paying us. That is in our terms, not just on this page.
How many QR codes does a trades and home service business need?
Usually three to a few dozen, depending on scale — see the setup above. Our free plan covers three dynamic codes with no scan limit, and Starter at $4/month covers 25, which is enough for most single-location operations.
Static or dynamic for this?
Dynamic for anything whose destination could change, which in practice is almost everything printed. Static only for things like Wi-Fi credentials that have no URL at all. Full comparison here.
What happens if I stop paying?
Your codes keep redirecting and keep counting scans. Codes over the free limit become frozen, which means you cannot edit them — not that they stop working. Nothing you have printed goes dead. The full promise.