Bulk upload

Bulk upload is handy when you need many similar codes: one per table, per product, per branch. You fill in a spreadsheet, save it as CSV and upload it. ScanFence creates one code per row.

Bulk upload is switched on by the ScanFence team. If you don’t see Upload on the QR Codes page, ask us to enable it.

Step by step

1. On the QR Codes page, click Upload.
2. Click Download sample CSV → to get qr-codes-bulk-template.csv with example rows.
3. Open it in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets and fill in one row per code. Keep the first row (the column names) as it is.
4. Save or export as CSV.
5. Back in the upload window, choose your file under Upload your CSV file. The upload starts as soon as you pick it.
6. Upload results then shows how many codes were created and, if any rows failed, which ones and why.

Columns

Column	Required	What to put in
type	Yes	standard or geofence
content	Yes	The link or text. For dynamic codes, the destination.
name	No	A display name, e.g. Table 12
category	No	The name of an existing category
tags	No	Existing tag names, separated by ;
is_dynamic	No	true to make the code dynamic, otherwise leave empty or false
global_scan_limit	No	A number, e.g. 100. See Scan limits
limit_reached_url	No	Where people go once the limit is reached
geofence_lat	For geofence	Latitude, e.g. 48.2082
geofence_lng	For geofence	Longitude, e.g. 16.3738
geofence_radius	No	Radius in metres, 50 to 5,000. Default 50

Example

name,type,category,content,is_dynamic,global_scan_limit,limit_reached_url,geofence_lat,geofence_lng,geofence_radius,tags
Table 1,geofence,Menus,https://example.com/menu,true,,,48.2082,16.3738,60,tables;indoor
Launch offer,standard,Marketing,https://example.com/offer,true,100,https://example.com/sold-out,,,,promo

Tips

• Create categories and tags first. Names that don’t exist yet are skipped, and the code is created without them.
• Find coordinates by right-clicking a spot in Google Maps: the first entry in the menu is latitude, longitude.
• Multi-location codes can’t be set up by spreadsheet. Create them in the app. See Multi-location codes.
• Row errors name the row, for example Row 4: Missing required fields (type or content) or Row 7: Geofence type requires valid geofence_lat and geofence_lng. Fix those rows and upload just them again; the rows that worked are already created.
• Bulk-uploaded codes count towards your plan’s limit like any other code.