Canva QR codes: how, and when to use a real generator

Canva can absolutely make a QR code — if the code is a plain website link going inside a Canva design. Here is the how, and the honest boundary line.

How to make a QR code in Canva

1. Open your design and go to Apps in the left sidebar
2. Search "QR Code" and open Canva's QR code app
3. Paste your URL, adjust the basic colours, and Generate
4. The code drops onto your canvas as an element — position and export with the design

What Canva's QR app does not do

It is URL-only. No WiFi codes, no vCards, no pre-filled email or WhatsApp, no calendar events. Design control is basic colour only — no pattern shapes, eye styling, gradients or logo-in-code. And there is no standalone high-res export: the code lives inside a Canva design.

The workflow that uses both well

Make the code here — any of 20 types, styled, with your logo — download the transparent PNG or SVG, and drag it into Canva like any image. You keep Canva for layout and get a code Canva cannot make. (Canva's codes are static, like ours; for codes you can repoint after printing, that is the £10 editable code.)