Dynamic codes

The sticker stays. The destination moves.

A dynamic code encodes a short Cue address, not your URL. Scans hit that address and get forwarded, so you can change where they land without touching anything you already printed.

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StaticURL inside the codefernwood.coffee/menu/summer-2025.pdfTo change it, reprint it.

DynamicCue address insidecue.to/f7k2m9Change it from your phone, mid-service.

£0.00to change a dynamic code

£340to reprint 500 table tentsTypical quote, UK, 2026

What actually happens when someone scans.

One extra hop, measured in milliseconds, on infrastructure that has held 99.99% for two years.

01Camera reads cue.to/f7k2m9A six-character address. Short codes stay low-density, which is why they still read off a curved cup or a rain-streaked window.

02Cue looks up today’s targetEdge lookup, median 34 ms. The scan is counted here: time, coarse location, device class. No cookie is set.

03The phone opens your pageA 302 to wherever you point it now. The visitor sees your domain in the address bar, not ours.

Control

Change it now, or arrange for it to change itself.

Most repointing is one field and a save. When you know the change in advance (a menu that turns over at 5pm, a conference day two, a campaign that ends) schedule it and stop thinking about it.

Scheduled swapsQueue a destination with a date and time. Reversible until it fires.

Expiry with a fallbackAfter the end date, send scans to a page you choose rather than a dead link.

Full historyEvery destination the code has ever had, who set it, and a one-click revert.

Fernwood · window stickerDynamic

cue.to/f7k2m9

Points tomenu.fernwood.coffee/autumn

Scheduled

Switches to /christmas-set-menu on 24 Nov, 06:00Edit

History

14 Sepmenu.fernwood.coffee/autumnAna R.

02 Junmenu.fernwood.coffee/summerAna R.

11 Marfernwood.coffee/spring-menu.pdfTom W.

The awkward question

What if you stop paying us?

Fair thing to ask before you print two thousand of anything. The short answer is that your codes keep working and you stop being able to change them.

Scans keep resolving, indefinitelyIf Pro lapses, every dynamic code freezes on its last destination and keeps forwarding there. We do not park them, redirect them to our own marketing, or switch them off. Printed material you have already paid for is not leverage.

Editing and analytics pauseRepointing, scheduling and new scan data stop the day the subscription ends. Historic analytics stay readable for 12 months. Resubscribe and everything unlocks on the same codes.

You can take the artwork with youExport every code as SVG and the whole library as CSV, at any time, on any plan. What you cannot export is the redirect, because the redirect is the service.

Common questions

Can I turn a static code dynamic later?

Not the printed one. Its destination is baked into the pattern. Cue keeps the design and reissues it as a dynamic code, so the new artwork looks identical.

Does the redirect slow the scan down?

Median 34 ms at the edge. In practice the phone spends longer focusing the camera than Cue spends answering.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes, on Studio. Point a subdomain at Cue and codes read qr.yourbrand.com/f7k2m9 instead. Existing codes can be migrated without reprinting.

Which types can be dynamic?

Seven of the ten: URL, vCard, event, app link, payment, email and text. Wi-Fi, phone and location must be static, because the phone acts on them without ever reaching a server.

Print the next batch dynamic. It costs the same to print.

Seven days free, then $4 a month. Cancel and your codes keep resolving.

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