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Short links that keep count

Short links — The QR code on the flyer points to a long address, and nobody knows whether anyone ever scanned it. With a short link you see how often it was clicked and scanned, and the campaign is already in your analytics.

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One link for flyers, emails and trade shows

A short link is a short address on ciro-noise.de that forwards to your destination: the landing page, the sign-up form, the appointment. You get it as a link to copy and as a QR code in your brand color, as PNG or SVG for print. CIRO NOISE counts clicks and scans separately, and the last visit shows date and time.

Three situations in which a short link keeps count

The voucher, the trade show booth and the question of which channel works.

A link that works exactly once

Jan sends a customer a voucher for a free workshop. The link works once and expires at the end of the month. Once the customer opens it, it is used up; anyone she forwards the email to lands on a notice page.

One-time or a set number of visits

Expiry date per link

Link previews don't count

Notice page instead of the destination once used up

The QR code at the trade show booth: how often was it scanned?

Nina puts up a poster with a QR code for the trade show. After three days she sees 214 visits on the link, 188 of them scans. In her analytics tool the visits arrive with the medium “qr” and the campaign “messe-2026”, separate from the link in the newsletter.

Clicks and scans counted separately

Campaign named per link

QR code as SVG for print

No changes needed at the destination

Which channel brings the most?

Nina promotes the fall campaign on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, in the newsletter and on a poster. She creates one short link per channel, all with the campaign “herbst-2026”, each with its own source. After a week the list shows: the Instagram bio brings the most visits, TikTok the fewest.

One short link per channel

Its own source (utm_source) per link

The same campaign for all channels

Compare in the list and in your analytics tool

Short links in detail

Everything a short link can do, in one sentence each.

Count clicks and scans
Visits per link, split into clicks and scans, plus the last visit. The totals for all links at the top.
QR code in your brand color
As PNG or SVG, in the brand color from your brand kit, without a third-party logo.
Automatic UTM parameters
The redirect adds source, medium and campaign itself. Scans arrive with the medium “qr”, clicks with “shortlink”.
Source per channel
You set the source (utm_source) per link. Without one, it carries your organization's handle. To tell channels apart, you therefore create one link per channel.
Expiry date and visit limit
Unlimited, one-time or a set number of visits, plus an expiry date. After that a notice page appears.
Privacy without IP addresses
No IP address, no device, no click log. Only the counters and the last visit are stored.

Frequently asked questions

For each link, the number of visits split into clicks and QR scans, and the time of the last visit. Above all links you see the totals: short links, active links, visits, clicks and scans. Where visitors come from and what they do on the destination page you see in your analytics tool, because the redirect passes the UTM parameters along.

Yes. Create one short link per channel, for example for your Instagram bio, a LinkedIn post and the newsletter, with the same campaign and a source of their own. In the list you see the visits per link, in your analytics tool the visits per source. A single link for all channels counts everything together, and then you can no longer tell where a visit came from.

No. Only the counters and the time of the last visit are stored, no IP address, no device and no log of individual clicks. Link previews from chat apps and email scanners don't count.

No. The redirect adds source, medium and campaign as UTM parameters to the destination address. Every analytics tool that reads UTM assigns the visits with them.

The address then shows a notice page instead of the destination. It names neither the destination nor your organization. You can change the expiry date or turn the link back on, and the printed code works again.

Short links belong to the Marketing area and are only available to the roles you choose. A short link forwards to any destination under our address, so not every member gets that permission automatically.

In the brand kit. There you store logos, colors with their role, fonts and the brand voice, for your own brand and for customers. Quotes, invoices and pitch pages take the brand from it, and the QR code uses the brand color.

And everything else is already included

Every feature shares one login and one permission system. A request sits in the customer record, becomes a task and lands on the invoice without anyone retyping it. Here is what else is included:

Two seats are free

With up to two people, you use CIRO NOISE for free, all features included. From the third person on, each seat is €25 per month plus VAT.

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