Wi-Fi QR Code Generator

Guest Wi-Fi signs for cafés and restaurants

Stop reading the password out at the counter. Print folding table tents and a counter sign with your café's name and a code customers can scan from their seat.

Sample network
Try it in

In this photo: Folding table tent.

Scan check Once your details are in, this page reads the finished sign back like a phone camera would.

Your Wi-Fi

The preview shows a sample network until you type yours.

Right for almost every home and business router, including mixed WPA2/WPA3 networks.

Choose a sign

A warm rose sign with a paper arch. Made for counters and folding table tents.

Words on the sign

The QR code contains your password even when it is not printed as text.

Size and download

Prints two folding tents. Each one shows the sign on both sides.

Print at 100% / Actual size, not “Fit to page”, so the sign comes out at 85×127 mm faces.

Add your network name to download.

Table tents that stand up

Choose Folding table tent as the size. Each Letter or A4 sheet prints two tents, each with two 85 × 127 mm faces. The top face prints upside down on purpose, so when you fold along the dotted marks the sign reads the right way up from both sides of the table.

  1. Print on card stock (around 200–250 gsm, or 65–80 lb cover) at 100% / Actual size.
  2. Cut on the solid corner marks. A paper trimmer gives cleaner edges than scissors.
  3. Score along the fold with a ruler and the back of a butter knife, then fold.

For the counter, a 5×7 in card fits most acrylic sign holders, and Letter or A4 suits a window or a menu board.

Printing for tables that get wiped

Tables get wiped, splashed and leaned on. A few things help a sign last:

  • Use a clear acrylic holder or a matte laminating pouch. Glossy lamination reflects ceiling lights straight into the camera, which is the most common reason a café code won't scan.
  • Keep the code dark on a light background. The arch design already does this; resist recolouring the code to match your brand.
  • Print a few spares. Customers take table tents home more often than you'd think.

Keep guest Wi-Fi separate

The password on a table tent is effectively public: anyone can photograph it. Put customers on a guest network that is separate from your card terminals, point-of-sale tablets and office computers. Most business routers have a guest or “hotspot” mode that keeps guest devices away from your own. See setting up a guest network for what to check.

If your Wi-Fi asks people to accept terms on a web page after they join, choose “No password” or WPA2 as normal: the QR code gets them onto the network, and the terms page appears afterwards as usual.

Menu codes are different

A Wi-Fi code joins the network; a menu code opens a web page. If a table has both, label each by what it does, “Join our Wi-Fi” and “See the menu”, and keep them apart so phones don't pick up the wrong one. The menu code also needs the customer to be online already, so the Wi-Fi code should be the easier one to reach.

When you change the password

Some cafés rotate the guest password monthly. Every printed code has the old password inside it, so reprint all the tents on the same day you change the router, and recycle the old ones so nobody scans a dead code.