Create a WiFi QR code for guests

A WiFi QR is worth printing for any space where guests spend more than 10 minutes: cafés, offices, Airbnbs, co-working desks. It saves the conversation about network names and exactly how the password is spelled.

Create one

1. Dashboard → Create QR → WiFi.
2. Enter the SSID (the network name as it appears in phone settings), the password, and the security type. For most home routers and small-business WiFi the answer is WPA2. Guest networks with no password use nopass.
3. If your network is hidden (you've disabled SSID broadcast), tick the hidden checkbox. Most aren't.
4. Download the QR, print, stick it on the wall.

Platform quirks

iPhone and modern Android phones join the network when you tap the prompt that appears after the scan. Older Android builds and some corporate-managed phones show the credentials but don't auto-join; people will copy the password manually. That's fine — it's still faster than reading it off a sticky note.

Security

A WiFi QR contains the password in plain text inside the QR pattern itself. Anyone who photographs your QR has the password. Two consequences:

• Use a dedicated guest network, not your main one. Most routers support one with a toggle.
• If the QR is on something you're going to show the world (a product package, a bar coaster sold online), don't use a WiFi QR — use a URL QR that points at a page with time-limited join instructions.

A word on dynamic WiFi QRs

A static WiFi QR (the default for most generators) bakes the password into the pattern. Change the password, reprint everything. GigaQR WiFi QRs are dynamic under the hood — if your WiFi password changes, you update it in the dashboard and every printed code starts serving the new credentials. This is the one unglamorous reason to pick a paid generator over a free one.