RSVP QR code generator
Turn your RSVP link into a code people can scan off a printed invitation. Free, instant, and the link never leaves your browser.
Any link works. The code is built here in your browser and the address is never sent anywhere.
This QR code needs somewhere to point
A code is only as useful as the page behind it. A party on MakeTheRSVP gives you a short link worth printing: your guests open it and answer in a tap with no account, they say how many they are bringing, and you can change the time or the address afterwards without reprinting a thing. Free for up to 25 guests, with no card.
Getting a printed code right the first time
A printed QR code cannot be edited. These are the four decisions you only get to make once.
Point the code at a page, not at the details
This is the one decision that matters, and it is easy to get wrong. A QR code is not a link that can be updated later - it is a picture of some text, and once it is printed, that text is fixed forever.
So encoding the party details directly into the code means the venue change you make in three weeks never reaches the fifty cards already in the post. Encoding a link to a page means the code is a permanent address for something you can still edit. Same code, same printed cards, new information.
Scan to RSVP: what to put beside the code
A bare QR code on an invitation gets ignored, because nobody knows what it does. Put one short line next to it - something like “Scan to let us know if you can come” - and print the link underneath in small text as well. The written link is the fallback for the guest whose camera is old, whose hands are full, or who is reading a photograph of your invitation that somebody forwarded to them.
An RSVP QR code for a wedding invitation
Weddings are where printed invitations are still the norm, so this is the most common use. The practical advice is the same as above with one addition: wedding invitations are often kept, photographed and passed around for months, so the page behind the code needs to still be there and still be current on the day. Point it at something you control rather than at a service that may expire the redirect.
If you already have a wedding website, the code can point at its RSVP page. If you do not want to build one just to collect answers, a free RSVP website is the smaller version of that job.
Before you send it to the printer
- Scan your own code with a phone, from the printed proof if you have one. A wrong code looks exactly like a right one.
- Keep the pale border. Scanners use it to locate the symbol, and cropping it off is the most common cause of a code that will not read.
- Print it dark on light. Inverted codes fail on many older scanners, and low-contrast ones fail in dim rooms.
- Avoid placing it over a fold, a seam or a textured card finish.
Related free tools
Designing the invitation in Canva? See how to add an RSVP link to a Canva invitation. Working out numbers first? You can estimate the turnout before anyone replies, and there is more on chasing the people who have not.
Questions about RSVP QR codes
Paste the link you want people to open into the box above and the code appears immediately. Download it as a PNG for a screen or an SVG for a printer, then place it on your invitation with the wording next to it. The whole thing happens in your browser, so the link is never sent anywhere.
Yes, and on any phone made in roughly the last eight years it takes no app at all - the built-in camera recognises the code and offers the link. That is the entire appeal of a QR on paper: the person holding your invitation is two taps from answering, instead of typing a long address by hand and getting a character wrong.
Use the SVG for anything going to a printer, because it stays sharp at any size, and keep the code at least 2cm across for a card held in the hand. Leave the pale border around it - that quiet zone is not decoration, it is how a scanner finds the code, and a QR pressed flush against artwork is the most common reason a printed one fails. Always add a line of text beside it saying what it is for.
Yes, as long as the code points at a hosted page rather than at the details themselves. That is the difference worth understanding. A QR code that encodes your address and time is frozen the moment it is printed. A QR code that encodes a link to a page can have its time, address and questions edited afterwards, and every already-printed invitation quietly starts showing the new information.
This generator is free with no signup and no limit, and the code it produces is yours to use anywhere, including commercially. QR codes are an open standard, so nobody can charge you a licence for one. Be careful with services that generate a code pointing at their own domain and then charge to keep it working - that is a redirect you are renting, not a QR code you own.
About 2cm square is comfortable for a card someone holds, and 3-4cm for a poster or a save-the-date on a fridge. The rule of thumb is that the code should be at least a tenth of the distance it will be scanned from. Shorter links make a less dense code with bigger blocks, which is easier to scan - another reason to point at a short share link rather than a long one full of tracking parameters.