Type the code printed on the tag (or on your printed code sheet),
then write its link onto the physical tag. On Android (Chrome): tap "Write", then
hold the blank tag to the back of your phone until it buzzes. On iPhone: copy the
link and write it with the free "NFC Tools" app instead (Write → Add a record → URL).
After writing, lock the tag so
nobody with a phone app can ever rewrite it to point somewhere else. Locking is
permanent and can't be undone β try it on one spare tag first to make
sure your tags take it well.
Print this QR on the same label. If a tap doesn't take β or the
phone has no NFC at all β the camera still opens the tool.
Write a CraftedLink product tag
A product tag goes inside a piece you sell. Writing
puts the tag's own permanent link on it β that link never changes,
and it is always what gets written, no matter what the tag currently forwards to.
Where it forwards (your shop, a story page, anywhere) is what you point and
repoint any time from the CraftedLink manager β no
rewriting, even years after the piece ships. Pick the tag, write its link, then
lock it before it goes anywhere near a customer piece.
Locking is what stops anyone with a phone
app from repointing a tag that's embedded in a customer's piece β it's permanent,
and for product tags it isn't optional. No QR here on purpose:
the tag hides inside the piece, so there's no label to print one on.
Blank tag with no printed code?
Pick what it's going on β this creates a fresh code, then you write
and lock it right here, same as above. Places show up in this list too: a shop door or
a car created from the dashboard has no tag until you give it one. (It has to exist
first β add a tool, or add a place from the dashboard, then
come back.)
Anything that already has a tag isn't
listed β to replace one of those tags, open its own page.
Print a sheet of QR labels
Prints a full sheet of ready-to-stick QR codes onto
Avery 94500 label sheets (1" round, 48 per sheet). Stick one on
anything, scan it with your phone, and set the tool up right there β the code
isn't attached to anything until you scan it. This works best on a
computer with the printer plugged in; phones love to shrink pages.
Already peeled some labels off this sheet?
Tap the spots that are missing β those
print blank and don't use up a code.
My printer prints a little off βΎ
If the whole grid lands slightly off the
labels, nudge the whole page here (in inches β up to a quarter inch either
way). Right and down are positive; left and up are negative. This never resizes
anything β it only slides the page.
That's one page of empty circles β print it
on plain paper at 100% and hold it against a label sheet to check the fit without
spending labels.
Always print at 100% / Actual
Size β never "Fit to page" β and turn off double-sided
printing, or the instructions print on the back of your label sheet.
The last page of the PDF walks you through it.