What Mosey does
Scan a QR code at a place to eat and go straight to what you need
Places print their own Mosey QR codes. Scan one with your phone camera and Mosey opens the place, often on the very screen the code was printed for.
What happens when you scan a Mosey QR code?
Many places print their own Mosey QR codes for tables, tills, posters and windows. A code holds a link that names the place, so your phone knows where you are without a search.
Most codes are the same kind of link as a Mosey tap tag, so scanning one does what tapping a tag does: Mosey records that you are there. A code can also say what it is for, and then the app carries straight on to that screen.
How do I scan a QR code in Mosey?
Scan the code
Point your phone camera at a Mosey QR code on a table, a till, a poster or a window, and tap the link your camera shows.
Open it in Mosey
With the app installed, the link opens Mosey. If you are signed out, you are asked to sign in and then brought back to the same code.
Carry on
Mosey records that you are there and shows the place. Some codes go straight to an action, such as rating, the menu or the queue.
What can a Mosey QR code be for?
The place picks a purpose when it makes the print, and it can only pick something it really has switched on. There are twelve kinds:
- Arrival: the normal screen for the place, with its rewards.
- Rate: starts a rating for the place.
- Menu: opens the menu.
- Pay: opens Mosey Pay for the place.
- Order ahead: starts an order for collection.
- Queue: lets you join the queue.
- Book: opens booking.
- Event: checks you in to an event, near the door.
- Membership: opens the place’s membership.
- Gift card: opens the gift card purchase.
- Tip: opens Mosey Pay, where the tip is one step.
- Follow: opens the place’s page on the web.
Does scanning take a payment or give me something on its own?
No. A code only asks the app to open a screen. You still confirm any payment, order or booking yourself.
Two things can happen from a scan alone: an event door code can check you in, and a self-serve trail stop can stamp your passport. Both need your phone to be near the place. Everything else a tap does is a request that staff confirm.
Why does a door code ask for my location?
A door code can check you in to an event, but only when your phone is close to the door, within two hundred metres of the venue. If it is not, the scan still opens the place and the app says why you were not checked in.
A festival is measured from the festival site instead, within five hundred metres, because a site can be a field or a street. It also has to be a day the festival is on.
What if the place no longer offers what the code says?
When you scan, Mosey asks the place whether that feature is still on. If it has been switched off since the code was printed, or Mosey cannot tell, you land on the normal arrival screen instead of a dead end.
Your scan is still recorded, so nothing is lost by scanning an older code.
What does the sticker in the window do?
A window sticker is a different kind of code. It opens the place’s public page on the web, so a scan from the street never counts as arriving.
It is only offered for a place that has a public page.
What if I do not have the app yet?
Your camera still opens the link. A Mosey page names the place, offers to open the app and shows the store buttons. Installing from there opens the app fresh, so scan the code again to be recorded as there.
That page asks nothing about you, and it does not ask for your location.
Why scan instead of searching?
Because the place has already told Mosey what the code is for. You skip the search, and a code that is out of date takes you to the normal arrival screen rather than a dead end.
- No searching: the code names the place and the job.
- A code never takes you to something the place no longer offers.
- Scanning is not paying: you still confirm anything that costs money.
Scan your next code in Mosey
Mosey is free on iPhone and Android. Install it, then point your camera at the code on the table.
On a computer? Point your phone camera at this and it will take you to the right store.
Questions about scanning a QR code
Do I need the app to scan a Mosey QR code?
Your camera can read the code without it. Without the app, the link opens a Mosey page that names the place and offers the app. Once the app is installed, scan the code again so you are recorded as there.
Does scanning take a payment?
No. A scan opens a screen. A payment, an order or a booking only happens when you confirm it yourself in the app.
Do I have to sign in?
Yes, to be recorded as there. If you are signed out, the app asks you to sign in and then carries on with the same code.
Why did the code open a different screen from the one printed?
When you scan, Mosey asks the place whether it still offers that action. If the place has switched it off since the code was printed, or Mosey cannot tell, you see the normal arrival screen instead.
Why does an event code ask for my location?
An event door code can check you in, but only when your phone is close to the door. Without a location the scan still opens the place, and the app tells you why you were not checked in.
What is the code on the window for?
A window sticker is a different kind of code. It opens the place’s public page on the web, so a scan from the street never counts as arriving.
Can a code do something I did not ask for?
A code only asks the app to open a screen. The two things a scan can do by itself are checking you in at an event door and stamping a self-serve trail stop, and both need your phone near the place.
How many kinds of code are there?
Twelve: arrival, rate, menu, pay, order ahead, queue, book, event check-in, membership, gift card, tip and follow. A place can only print one for something it has switched on.
More of what Mosey does
Everything Mosey doesRewards
Collect rewards at the places you keep going back to.
Order ahead and collection
Order from your phone and collect when it is ready.
Book and order ahead
Book a table, join a queue or catch a cancellation.
Pay with your phone
Save a card once, scan a code at the till and confirm on your phone. Add a tip if you like.
Food festivals
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