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QR Code Retirement Planner

Plan when to retire a campaign's QR codes from the campaign end date, the destination link expiry, and a review cadence. The retirement date is the earliest limiting date, with the reason stated.

1. Enter campaign dates

Rule: retirement date = the earliest of campaign end and link expiry. Next review = last review + cadence interval. If a date is blank it is ignored, not treated as zero.

Result
Retire codes by
December 31, 2026
Reason: Campaign ends
Campaign endsDecember 31, 2026
Next link-health reviewNovember 27, 2026

Diary the retirement date now. On the day, verify the destination still works, then remove or replace the printed codes — do not leave dead codes in the wild.

Every Code Needs an End Date

QR codes are easy to put up and easy to forget. A campaign ends, a page moves, a domain lapses — and the printed code keeps promising something that no longer exists. A retirement plan made at launch costs minutes and prevents months of dead scans, confused customers, and, in the worst case, a lapsed domain re-registered by someone else.

Make retirement a habit

Record the retirement date alongside the campaign, review link health on the cadence you chose, and treat retirement day as a real task: check the destination, remove the print, and update any page that still shows the code.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "retire" mean for a QR code?

Retire means stop relying on it: take down the print, remove the code from the page, and point the destination at a sunset notice or a current campaign. Printed codes cannot be edited, so retirement is a physical and digital tidy-up, not a single switch.

Why does the earlier date win?

A code is only useful while both the campaign is live and the destination works. Whichever ends first ends the code’s useful life — a live campaign pointing at an expired link is as dead as an ended campaign.

What if I have no link expiry date?

Leave it blank and the plan uses the campaign end date alone. But an open-ended link is itself a risk: a page that moves or is deleted later silently breaks every printed code pointing at it. Prefer a link you control with a known review date.

How is this different from checking one code’s expiry?

An expiry checker answers "is this code expired?" for one code. This planner answers "when should we retire this campaign’s codes, why, and when do we next review them?" — a schedule, not a single check.