As the first western QR Company, Kaywa offers a free QR Code Generator on its site qrcode.kaywa.com since 2006.
Next to that Kaywa also offered it’s QR Management (QR MGMT) which provided tracking, analytics, changeable QR Codes and support to business customers.

What was separated before, is now offered via the same site qrcode.kaywa.com to everybody.

• Choose the Generate Free Button if you want a simple QR
  Code.
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• Choose the Generate Safe Button to create your account on
  Kaywa’s QR MGMT and choose how many QR Codes you need.
  After your payment, the QR MGMT dashboard will be available immediately and you can start creating your first safe QR Code by using the green button.

QR MGMT: Creation, Changeability, Download as EPS, PDF and PNG


Click on image of the QR MGMT Dashboard to see it in bigger size

Kaywa's QR Code Management helps you to start safely in the world of QR Codes.

• Create
  You can create your QR Code today, print it and add the
  destination link (= landing page) anytime later.
• Change
  Our experience tells us, that many of our customers need to
  change their destination link at one time or another. With our free codes they can’t, with the QR MGMT they always can.
• Download in multiple file formats
  After creation you can download your QR Code as PDF, PNG
  or EPS file. You can also embed it directly on a website by
  clicking Embed.

QR MGMT: Analytics and Support

If you click the stats button of any QR Code or the stats navigation link, you will either access one particular QR Code or all taken together.

Scan Statistics
Choose your QR Code (if not already chosen via the Dashboard), then choose the time span.


Click on image of the QR MGMT to see it in bigger size


Details View: Technology and Location

Details is updated every 5 minutes and gives you more insight about the scans. In the Overview you quickly get the most important OS, Device, Country and City and the OS and Country Pie Charts.


Click on image of the QR MGMT to see it in bigger size

Technology
Technology is further dissected in OS and Devices, so that you can quickly see how many iPads, iPhones or iPads are for example in the iOS category. A Pie Chart visualizes the data.



Location
Location is further dissected in Countries and Cities and here as well a pie chart helps to visualize the data.




Support
Last but not least, we help you with your QR Code campaigns when you are subscriber to our QR MGMT service. You can call us by phone, skype or reach us via our support page or email.


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Register Here! Create an account, then choose between 4 options, starting at $9/month or $90/year.

Download the brand new Kaywa Reader for the iPhone: - Tap the scan picture. It's a Darb!

Although it dates back to May last year, I completely forgot to speak about our proposal for a new NFC logo. You see the end result on the right in both pictures (click for a bigger picture). I will discuss the design process in a future post.

At first sight, I thought it would a bit tricky to scan this QR Code because of the transparency. But with the new revolutionary Kaywa Reader on iPhone (will soon be out on the Appstore), it was really easy. I also took some photos (see above), so that you can check it out yourself.

The Kaywa Ticket Scanner App is now also available for iPhones and iPads:
Kaywa Ticket Scanner App available on iTunes.

Or download it directly via QR Code:



See also:
Kaywa Ticket Scanner App for Android


Shortly we will announce some major events using Kaywa Ticket. So stay tuned!

Yesterday 150 people got an email with a link to a Kaywa Ticket for the 2nd Android Community Event in Zurich. Today all 150 Tickets were scanned.

Here you can see some screenshots of the Kaywa Ticket:




Via the green link (Google Zurich) in the Kaywa Ticket you went to the DokoDare page from Google Zurich:



One more click on the map brought you directly to Google Maps



Scanning of a Kaywa Ticket



Some people still came with a printed ticket (3 of 150) :)



More photos can be found via the DokoDare page of Google Zurich.

PS: Here is the PDF for the Kaywa Ticket Scanner App Factsheet (in german only)

This is just an early teaser for our brand new Scanvenger Game. If you are interested to set up a Scanvenger hunt or to play a hunt, contact us.
In the following PDF, it's explained in more detail: Scanvenger How To (PDF)



See also (from last year; where it all started):
SCANvenger with DokoDare (early thoughts).

Electronic Beats Festival at E-Werk in Cologne (photo, photo) is over and our first mobile ticketing showcase was going great, also thanks to Detlev, Hans, Mauro, Dirk and Kalle!

We saw our mobile tickets in all shapes and sizes - some on very old black and white phones, some printed out, but most on smart phones either iPhone or Android.
All tickets could be scanned without a problem and we never had to use the Denso Scanner which we brought with us as a backup (see photo).

We are still amazed about the very good feedback we got from people who used mobile ticketing. They liked it very much and most were surprised how easy it is to get a ticket. Here is how it worked:
First you sent a SMS to 43210 with EB2011, then you got a confirmation SMS, asking you to say yes (JA) if you wanted to purchase a ticket for 17 Euros.
If you sent a SMS with yes (JA), you got a SMS saying: Here is your ticket and a link to the ticket was provided. Once you clicked the link you saw the Kaywa Ticket:




With the ticket on your phone, you came to us, and we scanned it from the phone screen with our Ticket Scanner App preinstalled on an Android phone and you got a wristband in magenta. Some of our clients were completely baffled by this: "A phone ticket scanned by another phone! Amazing!"

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We also sold a lot of tickets at the event itself which will become one of the killer arguments for mobile ticketing:

• no need to wait in a queue,
• no need for a box office to deal with cash,
• buy a ticket as late as it gets.

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See a video which shows how Kaywa Ticket and the Ticket Scanner App worked at Electronic Beats: