QR codes for coffee shops that earn tips and reviews at the pickup counter

The card reader asks for a tip once, at the register. Then the customer waits at the pickup counter with a phone in hand and nothing to do with it. That wait is where a tip jar, a review ask and your bean shop belong, each on its own tracked code.

Free account, no card. 2 tracked codes and 1 hub on the free plan.

Thanks for the coffee

Tips are shared by everyone on shift.

Tip with Venmo
Tip with Cash App
Tip with PayPal

Powered by Scanlo

Tips: what customers see after scanning

Where the codes go, and what each one does

Tips the register misses

Cash customers with no cash to spare, mobile orders picked up from the shelf, the pop-up cart at the farmers market. A tip hub lists Venmo, Cash App and PayPal on one sign, so the tip does not depend on what the card reader asked a few minutes earlier.

  • The pickup counter, at eye level while people wait
  • The mobile order shelf
  • The pop-up cart or market tent
How it works

Reviews from the regulars

People pick a coffee shop from the map, and the map sorts by rating. Your regulars like you and have never been asked. A review code by the pickup counter asks while the drink is still warm, and the scans show whether the counter or the table tents do the asking better.

  • The pickup counter, next to the tip sign
  • Table tents and the window by the bar
  • A sticker on the cup sleeve

Beans, gift cards and catering

Point a code at a Square payment link for a bag of the house blend, a gift card or a catering order. Customers who loved the drink buy the beans on the way out, and you see which placement sells them.

  • The retail shelf with the bags
  • The bag label itself, for the reorder
  • Holiday signage in December

Cuppings, classes and the back room

Latte art classes, public cuppings, the room people book for a meeting or a birthday. Put a code on the flyer that points at your booking page, and compare which flyer fills the seats.

  • Flyers on the community board
  • The door of the room you rent out
  • Receipts the week before an event

What trips coffee shops up with QR codes

A tip sign with the owner’s personal Venmo looks like the tips go to the owner. Decide first whether tips go to one shared team account or to each barista, use a business profile for a shared account, and say on the sign who gets them.

Cup sleeves and bag labels are printed by the thousand and stay in circulation for months. Print a Scanlo code on them and you can change where it goes with the season, from the bean shop in spring to gift cards in December, without throwing out a single sleeve.

A code on a curved cup or a glossy sleeve can be hard to scan. Test the size on the real cup before ordering a batch, and keep a flat version on the counter for everyone else.

On which plan

Free

2 tracked codes, 1 hub with up to 2 links and 30 days of scan history. Enough for a tip hub at the pickup counter with your two most used apps, plus a Google review code and a bean shop code.

Standard

Up to 20 codes and 10 hubs with up to 10 links each, 90 days of history, which method and which placement wins, and no Scanlo branding. Room for a code on every table, the sleeve and the bag, so you can see which one customers actually scan, and every tip app your customers ask for.

Compare plans

Questions

Does this replace the tip screen on our card reader?
No, keep it. The tip code catches the customers the reader misses: cash payers, mobile orders and pop-up sales. The two work side by side.
Where do the tips go?
Straight to the account behind each button, a shared team Venmo for example. Scanlo never touches the money. It counts the scans and which app customers tap.
Can I change what the cup sleeve code does later?
Yes. The printed code points at Scanlo, and you choose where Scanlo sends it. Change the destination in the dashboard and every sleeve already out there follows.
Is this a menu QR code?
No. Scanlo does not host menus. These codes do one job each: a tip, a review, a purchase or a booking.
What happens to printed sleeves if we stop paying?
They keep working. A printed Scanlo code redirects forever, on any plan. Only editing and deeper analytics are gated.

One sign at the pickup counter, tips and reviews from the wait

Set it up in a few minutes with the links you already have, and let the scans tell you which spot in the shop people actually use.

  • No card to start
  • Printed codes never stop working
  • Edit links without reprinting