GetQR review: the $1 trial, the $39.99 renewal, and the one line in their terms that matters

What does GetQR cost after the trial?

$39.99 a month.

GetQR’s terms are specific about the sequence, and to their credit they spell it out rather than bury it:

“At the end of the 7-day trial, your account will automatically convert to a paid monthly subscription at the standard rate unless you cancel before the trial period ends. The standard monthly rate is $39.99 USD”

The trial is a dollar. Their terms add: “The trial fee is non-refundable.”

So the offer is $1.00 for seven days, then $479.88 a year, starting automatically, unless you remember.

What happens to your QR code if you stop paying?

GetQR answers this in section 12 of their terms, and the first half of the sentence is the part to read:

“Dynamic redirect functionality depends on an active subscription: dynamic redirects may stop working when the associated account is closed.”

Depends on an active subscription. No hedge on that clause, and no ambiguity in it. The thing you are paying for is the redirect, and the redirect is rented.

The second half hedges: redirects may stop working, and only “when the associated account is closed.” So the exact mechanics of the ending are left soft. But the principle is stated outright, and the rest of the terms fill in the path. Section 9, on payments:

“If a payment fails … we may suspend access until the payment method is updated, and we may terminate accounts where payment remains unresolved.”

The examples they give of a failed payment are an expired card, insufficient funds, and a declined transaction. Ordinary things, none of which mean you wanted the code switched off.

And section 24, on what closure does:

“Upon account closure, your access to the dashboard ends, dynamic QR redirects associated with the account may cease to function, and your content may be deleted from our active systems”

Follow the chain. An expired card can lead to a terminated account. A terminated account can take the redirect with it. Every link in that chain is a “may” rather than a “will,” so we are not going to promise you what happens on any particular day.

We do not need to. Section 12 already says the part that matters: the redirect depends on an active subscription. Everything after that is detail about the timing.

Two clauses worth reading before you pay

Both of these are quoted exactly from GetQR’s terms, and both are things you agree to at checkout.

On cancelling:

“Removing your payment method, initiating a chargeback, or contacting your bank does not count as cancellation and may result in continued billing and account restrictions.”

On disputes, in their capitals:

“YOU WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING AGAINST GETQR OR HINT AMERICA INC.”

and

“YOU ALSO WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY FOR ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND GETQR”

None of that is unusual for a US software company. It is worth knowing it is there.

How do I cancel GetQR?

Here is the link: getqr.com/cancellation/auth/email

It is their own page, named in their own terms: “You can cancel at any time from our cancellation page, which is also accessible through a link in your account dashboard.” You do not need to log in. It asks for the email address on the account, and that is the whole flow.

Two things worth knowing before you use it.

Do not cancel through your bank. Their terms are explicit: “Removing your payment method, initiating a chargeback, or contacting your bank does not count as cancellation and may result in continued billing and account restrictions.” Use their page.

Cancelling is not instant. Their terms: “Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing cycle, and you retain full access until then.”

One oddity, in case you went looking for that page yourself and could not find it: it is marked noindex, nofollow, which tells search engines not to list it. The page is easy to use once you have the address. It is just not findable by searching for it, which is why the address is printed above.

If you came here because you have been charged $39.99 and want it to stop, that is the whole answer. The rest of this page can wait.

Is GetQR legitimate?

It is a real service from a registered company, Hint America Inc., and they are a Google-verified advertiser. They are also, by some distance, the most heavily advertised QR generator we found: roughly 300 live Google ads at the time of writing.

That is worth understanding rather than treating as a red flag on its own. Ads are expensive. A product that acquires customers through paid ads needs each customer to be worth a lot, which is why the ad-funded corner of this market prices at $39.99 and $49 a month while the search-funded corner prices at $19.

What we would do instead

We sell QR codes, so weigh this accordingly.

A Graklink dynamic code is $7.99, once. Change where it points as often as you like, forever. There is no subscription to lapse because you already paid the entire fee. $7.99 once.

One year of GetQR is $479.88. The same money buys 60 Graklink codes outright, and year two costs nothing.

More to the point, the two products disagree on one line, and GetQR states their side of it plainly: “Dynamic redirect functionality depends on an active subscription.” Ours says the opposite, in the same place, our terms rather than our marketing: “A printed Graklink code never stops redirecting because of a billing event.”

Exactly two things can stop a Graklink code, and neither is money: using it for phishing, malware, fraud or anything illegal, or deleting your own account.

See what a code with no renewal date costs at graklink.com.