QR Codes with Mobile Form for public feedback and fault reporting

This sample mobile form shows you how you can enable anyone to provide location-aware feedback for fault reporting without developing special Apps.

Street light not working? just scan QR code, take photos and done. Same with pavement obstructions, pipes, bridges, underpasses, falling trees, guard rails etc.

Today most people in cities have smartphones with good connectivity, GPS and camera - all very useful in providing instant, precise feedback. This sample shows you how to do this in minutes.

 

Scan the above QR Code and see for yourself how this works without requiring the user to install any special App. 

Since all this is just a normal Qryptal Mobile Form, all the uploaded photos and videos appear in the report:

Further notification emails can be forwarded to your normal fault reporting address or you can use web-hooks to get each form fill notification posted to your server.

We have made the above sample a ready to use template. Clicking on the button below will give you a copy of the above mobile form loaded and ready for you to try, customize and use:

QR Codes for Signups with Payment Collection via PayPal

At Qryptal, we believe QR Codes are all about enabling your customers to do things NOW with their mobile, when you have their attention - rather than later, which often ends up being never (out of sight, ends up being out of mind).

One great use case is driving signups for your event, service, facilites booking etc.

Our users have been using Qryptal Forms to get the registration information for quite sometime but many such signups needed the registrants to pay as well. We have recently done integration with PayPal to make this a seamless experience for our customers as well as the end-users signing up.

End-User experience:
Let's say you are organizing a race and have created posters to promote it:

Once the user has filled up all the information you need, they are sent to the PayPal website to pay for their registration (it is important to note that payment information is entered directly with PayPal and Qryptal does not see the credit card info or PayPal account details).

After the user completes the payment transaction successfully with PayPal, Qryptal can optionally send an email to the end-user:

You as an organizer will receive two notifications from Qryptal:

• Registration Form Fill Notification: All the details, the user enters when she fills up the form to register (before being sent to PayPal to pay).
• Payment Notification: When the user completes the transaction with PayPal, we would send you another email so that you can reconcile your records.

Apart from above, both the merchant and the buyer would receive the usual notifications directly from PayPal.

You can try by scanning the code below. It will cost you 1 cent (all of which will be kept by PayPal).

You should also read this blog post to understand how Qryptal Forms work so that you can get an idea of what all you can do with this:
Qryptal Forms.

We chose PayPal because:

• Mobile Friendly: They have a great mobile checkout experience (you can try above).
• Worldwide: We have users worldwide and needed a payment service available to merchants in nearly all parts of the world.
• Secure: End users would be sending their payment information directly to PayPal. Not only do they support such flows but also have a great record on security.

If you would like to try Qryptal Forms with PayPal, send us an email with some details on what you would like to accomplish and our team would be happy to guide and set things up for you:

QR Code Mobile Forms Data Capture and Export

Since we introduced QR Code integrated mobile forms in January, this has quickly became our most popular feature. Customers have been using it for getting instant feedback, surveys, order forms, membership registrations, contests, event RSVP, trade-show collateral delivery etc.

It works like this:

Forms had been working like above since launch but many customers have been requesting us to collate all the form fillings in one report so that they can import same in Excel etc. For some of these customers we had integrated our Forms backend with the excellent Google online spreadsheet API - but it was not so easy to provide access to every user, particularly those working in large corporations not already having a Google Account.

So we are very pleased to recently upgrade our Forms sub-system enabling all paid customers to easily view their forms fill data (last 12 months) as well as download it for easy importing into their own database or Excel. Though from a user perspective, this is an easy to use feature (just click a button)- but behind the scenes this required us architecting a new reliable and scalable backend.

You can easily access this form fill data by clicking on the "Forms Data" button when viewing your code list:

The form data is displayed as:

Not much to try, just use it!

Rock the Vote Uses QR Code T-Shirts to Register 1.5 Million Voters

via mashable.com

"At the centerpiece of the nationwide voter registration drive is Rock the Vote’s new t-shirt design, which includes a QR code that, when scanned, takes smartphone owners to a the Rock the Vote website where they can register to vote via the web."

Mobile is all about doing stuff now rather than later (or never) on the desktop. This is a great use case.

Qryptal Forms have become very popular due to similar needs to create next generation of interactive QR Codes:
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QR Codes and magazine advertising: a whole new ballgame

Many smaller businesses have set aside little or no budget for magazine advertising. The reasons are understandable:
- the high cost of a one-time ad
- no method to accurately measure impact
- the static nature of the content

QR codes have changed this economic equation.

Today, you can run a magazine ad and directly measure the response using a QR code. Want to know if a specific discount percentage can generate new business? Offer it through a QR code, and you’ll know within days.

Want to know which new product or service might be most compelling? Launch it through a QR code, and go to the report to see the number of people scanning your code.

And if the response is poor, you can change the offer. Unlike a traditional print ad, one featuring a QR code enables you to change the content appearing on the QR code’s landing page. If a 10% discount isn’t generating enough enthusiasm, you can sweeten it, or offer something else.

Essentially, a QR code makes your magazine ad interactive. It transforms a one-dimensional piece of paper into a live focus group.

And you’ll know who your focus group is, because typical QR code campaigns ask readers to enter at least an email address to receive the offer. You can also deploy different tracking QR Codes in different magazines, to determine which channel is more effective.

In November, a large business, Hewlett Packard, featured a QR code on the back of an insert in Popular Mechanics magazine. The QR code’s landing page invited readers to sign up to enter a contest to win a wireless printer.

In the first month, HP reportedly got 15,000 visits to this mobile landing page.

The good news is that you don’t need to be a Fortune 500 company to use a QR code. Just create your own code and landing page at Qryptal...

(if possible, we would recommend keeping the form shorter and asking for less information than this example)