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The Anti-Trap Guarantee

Your QR codes outlive
your subscription.

We will never hold your QR codes hostage. Once you make one, it keeps working on every plan – including the free one – forever.

What's covered

Your codes keep working in every situation we could think of.

  • If you ever stop paying

    Your paid plan stays active until the end of the billing period, then drops to Free. Every QR code you've made keeps working.

  • If you switch to a smaller plan

    All your existing codes keep working. You may not be able to make new ones past the smaller plan's limit, but nothing you already made is touched.

  • If you hit your monthly analytics limit

    Your codes keep working. We only pause analytics tracking until the next month – the codes themselves never stop.

  • If a payment ever fails

    We retry the charge over about two weeks. If all retries fail, you drop to the Free plan – and your codes keep working.

  • If your subscription lapses

    Same as stopping payment. You drop to Free. Every code keeps working forever.

  • If you walk away and never come back

    As long as your account exists, your codes keep working. There's no "use it or lose it" clock.

What's not covered

Three things that do break your codes.

We're being explicit so you're never surprised. The guarantee is about your plan, not your account.

  • 1. Deleting your account

    Account deletion is a deliberate, destructive action. When you delete your account, every QR code you've made stops working immediately and all your data is gone for good. This is not the same as cancelling a plan – cancelling keeps your codes alive; deleting destroys them.

    We make account deletion deliberately hard so you can't do it by accident: multiple confirmation steps, an exact count of the codes that will break, and a typed "DELETE" to confirm. If you want out, we'll honour it – but not by mistake.

  • 2. Deleting an individual QR code

    If you delete a QR code from your dashboard, that code stops working. Deletion is intentional – the guarantee protects you from losing codes by accident, not from destroying them on purpose. If you just want to pause a code instead, use the pause toggle.

  • 3. Terms of Service violations

    If a code is used for phishing, scams, malware, or other things our Acceptable Use Policy bans, we'll take it down. Honest users never hit this.

Why we built this

Printed QR codes can't be unprinted.

Most QR services tie your codes to a paid plan. Stop paying, your codes stop working. Every sticker, menu, business card, and slide deck you've ever shared becomes useless overnight.

We think that's a trap. You trusted the service once. You shouldn't have to keep paying forever just to protect things you printed years ago. If we can't keep you around because our product is good, holding your codes hostage isn't going to change that.

So we made a different promise: the moment you make a code, it's yours. It keeps working on every plan – including the free one. Forever.

Questions about the guarantee

Does "forever" really mean forever?

As long as EternalQR exists and your account exists, your codes keep working. We have no hidden expiry or grace period that runs out. If you want a code to expire, you have to set an expiry date yourself.

What happens if EternalQR shuts down?

We can't guarantee service in perpetuity if the company ceases to exist. But we commit to giving at least 60 days' notice before any shutdown, so you have time to update your links elsewhere. We're a bootstrapped, profitable product – not VC-backed, not built to be flipped.

What if I want to delete my account later?

You can, from your dashboard. We'll show you exactly how many QR codes will stop working, make you confirm multiple times, and require you to type "DELETE" before we proceed. After that, every code you've made is gone. The guarantee covers plan changes, not account deletion – they're deliberately separate actions.

Is there a catch?

No. The Free plan keeps up to 5 codes working. Paid plans keep more. Stop paying and you drop to Free limits, but every code still works. The only exceptions – account deletion, deleting an individual code, and Terms violations – are listed above. That's the entire list.

Start free. Your codes are safe from day one.

Create up to 5 QR codes on the free plan. Every one of them is protected by the Anti-Trap Guarantee.

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