PAYPAL.ME

PayPal QR code generator

Your PayPal.Me link as a code — with an amount baked in when you want one. The payer lands on PayPal’s own page and confirms there.

A PayPal QR code stores a PayPal.Me link, so a phone opens PayPal ready to pay the person or business named in it.

Add the content

PayPal.Me nameThe part after paypal.me/ — letters and digits, from your PayPal.Me link.

Amount

Currency

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://paypal.me/chaiwalaThe 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-M28/28mask 2

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

A name, not an email address

The code carries paypal.me/yourname, the link PayPal hands you for exactly this. It never embeds your PayPal email — a printed email is a harvesting target and a phishing prop, and no working code needs it.

The amount rides in the link

paypal.me/yourname/12.50USD opens with the amount and currency set. The payer can still change it before paying — PayPal.Me links request, they do not collect.

You need a PayPal.Me name first

It is claimed once in your PayPal settings and it is yours from then on. If the code should reach a business account, claim the name on that account before printing.

PayPal QR codes

Where do I find my PayPal.Me name?

In PayPal under Settings → PayPal.Me, or at paypal.me when signed in. The name in your link — paypal.me/THISPART — is what the form wants.

Can I set a currency without an amount?

No — the link has nowhere to put one, so the form refuses rather than dropping it silently. Set both, or neither.

Do fees change with a QR code?

The code is the same PayPal.Me link; PayPal’s fees apply exactly as they would if the payer had typed the link themselves.

What does the payer see?

PayPal’s own payment page for your name, with the amount prefilled when the code carries one. Nothing is collected on this site.

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