Café counter card
A small card by the till at Bloom Cafe, next to where the card machine already sits.
Customers can leave a review on the spot with a Google review QR code made from the review link in your Business Profile. It uses the same review link Google already gives you, so reviews land on your profile.
Scan it once from the screen before you print a batch. Keep it 2 cm or larger on paper, and leave the white margin around it.
Save this design - colors, corners, logo and frame - and put it on any code later. Saved in this browser.
One value per line, or paste a CSV. With two columns the first is the file name and the second is the value. Every code uses the design you set up above.
Lay the code out on an A4 page with cut marks, ready for the printer or a label sheet.
The code itself is nothing special - it holds the same review link Google already gives you, just easier to hand someone than a URL. What matters more is where that link comes from and how you ask people to use it, since Google has firm rules about both.
Below: getting the right link from your Business Profile, good places to put the code, and the two things Google's policy explicitly rules out.
This generator does not create the review link itself - Google does, inside the Business Profile you already use to manage your listing.
Search your business name on Google, or go to Google Business Profile directly, and sign in as the owner or manager.
Select Read reviews, then Get more reviews, to open the share panel with your link and QR code.
Copy gives you the URL to paste in here; Google's own QR code image can currently only be generated from a computer browser, not a phone.
The best spot is wherever a customer's hands are already free and the visit just went well - not a follow-up email they may never open.
A small card by the till at Bloom Cafe, next to where the card machine already sits.
Printed under the total on a Northwind Plumbing invoice, so it is still there once the job is done.
A sticker on the Rowan Vale Electrical van, for the moment right after a job is finished.
A discount on the next visit for anyone who leaves a review.
The same code on every receipt, with nothing offered in exchange for using it.
Google treats payment or discounts for reviews, even small ones, as fake engagement and can remove the reviews or act on the listing.
Showing the code only to tables that seemed happy, and skipping the ones that did not.
Offering the same code to every customer, whatever the visit was like.
Google's policy names this directly: selectively soliciting positive reviews is against the rules, even with no payment involved.
Checked September 2026
Google changes its Business Profile menus and policy wording from time to time; the linked pages carry the current version.
From your Business Profile: select Read reviews, then Get more reviews, then Copy.
No. Google's policy treats payment, discounts or free goods offered in exchange for a review as fake engagement, whatever the review says.
No, that is review gating, and Google's policy names it as a violation even without any payment involved. Offer the same code to every customer.
Yes. Each location has its own Business Profile and its own review link, so each one needs its own code.
Yes. A dynamic code lets you re-point the same printed card if your review link ever changes; two dynamic codes are free to try.
Build a QR landing page: add links, text, images and your logo, then point one editable QR at it.