On every yard sign, truck door, and estimate.
Your yard signs sit in front of finished jobs for months, and your truck door is a rolling billboard parked in a different neighborhood every week. Those impressions are free advertising until the day the QR service behind them wants another monthly payment and bricks the code on fifty signs at once.
What is the best QR code for contractors and the trades?
The best code for a trade business is one dynamic QR code across your yard signs, truck doors, and business cards, repointed at whatever wins the job that week: your reviews, a quote form, or the current promotion. It is $7.99 once and never expires, so fifty signs never go dark at once because a subscription lapsed.
Your yard signs sit in front of finished jobs for months, and your truck door is a rolling billboard parked in a new neighborhood every week. Those impressions are free advertising, right up until the QR service behind them wants another monthly payment and bricks the code on every sign you have out.
Put a code on the truck that cannot be shut off: start at graklink.com.
Where your code should point
One code, aimed at whatever closes the next job:
- Your Google reviews, while a neighbor is standing at the yard sign.
- A quote or estimate request form, from the truck door and business cards.
- The current seasonal promotion, from a door hanger or flyer.
- A portfolio or before-and-after gallery, when the work sells itself.
- Financing or a book-a-call page, for bigger jobs.
Bid season points it at the quote form. Slow month points it at the discount. Just hit 100 five-star reviews? Point it there. The magnets, cards, and signs you already paid for never get reprinted.
Create your code and point it at your reviews.
Recommended setup
- Start with one code across signs, truck, and cards. One-time $7.99, changed from your phone.
- Go bulk to compare surfaces. Want to know if the truck or the signs bring the calls? Give them separate codes. Bulk is $5.99 each for 2 to 9, $4.99 for 10 to 24, and $3.99 at 25 and up, design fee once per batch.
- Add analytics if you work multiple neighborhoods. Pro ($9.99/month or $99/year, 30 days free) shows coarse location and timing, so you learn which streets actually pay.
The sign outlives the job. The code should too.
A yard sign in front of a finished deck is the cheapest advertising you will ever run, and it works until the homeowner takes it down. That only pays off if the code keeps resolving.
| Option | What you pay | Ongoing? | Codes die if you stop paying? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graklink | $7.99 once (bulk from $3.99 each) | No | No, never |
| QR Tiger | From $84 / year | Yes, forever | Yes |
| Bitly | From $120 / year | Yes, forever | Yes |
A referral that opens your review page in one scan converts on the driveway. A referral that opens an error page converts for whoever the neighbor googles instead.
Buy it once and let the signs keep working for years.
Make sure it scans off a moving truck door
A code read off a truck at a stoplight or a sign across a yard has to be clean:
- Strong contrast, and keep the code much darker than the wrap behind it.
- A clear quiet zone, no graphics crowding the edges.
- Printed large, especially on a vehicle, and kept square.
- Scanned on a phone before you order fifty coroplast signs.
Our checker verifies your code before you buy, and the full guide is here: why QR codes don’t scan. A code on a van door or a yard sign is read from across a street, so it needs to be far bigger than one on a business card, and how big a QR code should be for print has the rule for working that out.
Sources
- Graklink pricing and policy. Verified against the graklink.com checkout, last checked 2026-07-12.
- QR Tiger pricing: qrcode-tiger.com/payment. Dynamic-QR plans from $7/month billed annually ($84/year); codes stop if the subscription lapses. Last checked 2026-07-12.
- Bitly pricing: bitly.com/pages/pricing. Cheapest paid plan $10/month billed annually. Last checked 2026-07-12.
Every sign, truck, and card, pointed wherever wins the job. Start at graklink.com.
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Questions contractors actually ask
What should a contractor's QR code point at?
The page that wins the job: your Google reviews while a neighbor stands at the yard sign, your quote-request form from the truck door, or the current seasonal promotion from a door hanger. Change it anytime from your phone.
I have 50 yard signs out. Do they all update?
Yes, within seconds. One code on all fifty signs, one change in your dashboard, and every sign in every yard points at the new destination. The signs themselves never change.
Does the code die if I stop paying for something?
No. It is $7.99 once and works forever. There is no subscription attached to the code. That is the entire reason Graklink exists.
Can I tell which neighborhoods bring in the scans?
A free scan counter is included with every code. Pro analytics ($9.99/month or $99/year, first 30 days free) adds coarse location and timing, so you know whether the signs or the truck generate the calls.
What survives weather?
The print is your printer's job (coroplast and vinyl handle weather fine); the code is ours. Download the free SVG and it scales crisp to any size. High-contrast designs scan best on a truck door in motion, and our checker verifies yours before you print.