Calendar Event QR Code Generator
Scanning offers to add the event.
Year-month-day, then the time. Leave the time off for an all day event.
Scanning offers to add the event.
How to use it
- Name the event. This is what appears in the calendar, so make it recognisable out of context.
- Set the start and end. Both are checked against the real calendar, so 31 February is refused rather than quietly rolled into March.
- Download it. PNG for screens, SVG for print. The full event is shown underneath so you can check the times before printing.
When you would use this
A calendar QR code carries a single event, so scanning a poster offers to put it straight into someone's calendar rather than making them copy a date and hope. It suits anything with one fixed date and place: a fixture list, a class timetable, a talk, a collection day printed on a bin sticker. The dates are validated against the real calendar before anything is drawn, which matters because date handling silently rolls impossible dates forward: ask most software for 31 February and it hands back 3 March without complaint, and the printed code would then be wrong in a way nobody notices until the day. No time zone is recorded, so times are read in whatever zone the phone is set to.
Questions
- Does it add the event automatically?
- No. The phone shows the event and offers to add it, and the person confirms. Nothing lands in a calendar without a deliberate tap.
- What time zone are the times in?
- None is recorded, so the event is read in whatever zone the phone is set to. That is usually what you want for a poster at a physical venue, and wrong for anything international.
- Can I make an all day event?
- Leave the time off the start and it is treated as midnight. Set the end to the following day to cover the whole of it.