MESSENGER

QR code to start a Messenger chat

An m.me link, so someone can open a conversation with your page without searching for it first.

A Messenger QR code stores an m.me link to a Facebook page or profile, which a phone opens as a Messenger chat.

Add the content

Page usernameThe page’s username, not its display name and not a numeric id.

Style this code

Style this code — colour, shape, branding, frame and output

Colour & contrastThe ink, the paper behind it, and the three eyes. Every choice is contrast-checked as you make it.

Foreground

18.0:1 against the background — clears the 4.5:1 a camera wants margin on.

Background

Transparency0%

Eye colours

ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.

Modules

Every shape here is decode-tested before it is offered. Shapes that lose the symbol — diamond, star, heart — are not on this list, however good they look.

Eye frame

Eye centre

BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.

Logo image

Upload a logo

PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2MB. The modules beneath it are cleared and error correction rises to cover the hole.

Background picture

Upload a picture

Sits behind the modules, quiet zone included. A busy picture is the classic reason a decorated code stops scanning — check the preview with a phone before printing.

Foreground texture

Upload a texture

Washes over the ink itself, so it is capped well below full strength — at full strength there is no code left to scan.

Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.

Frame style

A frame is drawn outside the quiet zone, never into it — the canvas grows instead, so the border cannot cost the code its margin.

OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.

Options

PNG size

Margin4 modulesError correctionEncoding

Automatic picks the smallest encoding that carries your text, and is right almost always. The other three exist for older scanners that expect one specific encoding; each refuses text it cannot carry rather than mangling it. Encodings we cannot convert to correctly are not offered at all.The margin never goes below 4 — ISO/IEC 18004's minimum; smaller is not a QR code. A logo raises error correction to at least Q. Encoding is chosen by the encoder per symbol and shown in the readout — a manual charset menu only makes codes bigger.

Embedded data

https://m.me/exampleThe exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

Save this design — free account, the code stays editable →

Your code

v225×25 modulesbyteEC-M22/28mask 0

4/4 4 of 4 checks passHow we measure

Print-ready PDF

A press file at the finished size: 3mm bleed, crop marks and a trim box a print shop’s checks read. The code is drawn black on white whatever the design above — how a colour prints is something only a test print can show.

Format

No account · no watermark · no scan limits

It opens a chat, it does not send one

The link lands on a conversation with your page, empty and waiting. Nothing is sent until the person types — which is the behaviour you want on a printed sign, and the reason this is safe to put on a table tent.

A username, not a display name

m.me needs the page’s username. A display name with spaces in it is not one, and a code built from the wrong string opens a chat with nobody.

Useful where a phone number is not appropriate

A WhatsApp code publishes a phone number. This one publishes a page, which is a business identity rather than a personal one — often the difference between a code you can put in a window and one you cannot.

Messenger QR codes

Is this the Messenger scan code?

No. That one is scanned inside their app. This is a plain URL any camera reads, which is what printed material needs.

Can I prefill a message?

Not reliably, so this does not try. A prefilled message that silently fails is worse than an empty chat that works.

What if they do not have Messenger?

The link opens in a browser, where the conversation still works.

Does it work for a personal profile?

It works for anything with a username, personal or business. The username is the part after m.me in your own Messenger link.

Want to change it after it’s printed?

Make it a dynamic code: it carries a short link you can point somewhere new at any time, and it counts every scan. A free account includes 5 dynamic codes and needs no card — and a dynamic code keeps redirecting even if you never upgrade.

Make it dynamic, free How dynamic codes work