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QR codes and player reports

Let a player tell you a game is broken before the venue does.

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Find the codes

Every machine has its codes ready from the moment you add it. Open the machine, use the Print Cards menu in the header, and choose the QR code option.

There are two codes and they do different jobs. The operator code opens the machine inside Pinventory and is for you and your team. The public code opens a report form for anyone who scans it and needs no account and no app.

Only the public code is safe to put on a game in a venue. The operator code is a shortcut into your own records.

The QR code dialog showing the operator and public codes side by side.
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Print it

Download either code as SVG or PNG if you are dropping it into your own artwork. SVG scales to any size without going soft, so use it for anything larger than a sticker.

For a finished card, print the Public Card, which carries your business name and logo alongside the code. The Asset Card is the internal version for your own labelling. You can print the whole fleet at once from the Fleet page instead of one game at a time.

The public card print preview with the business logo and the QR code.
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What the player sees

A scan opens a short form branded with your business name and the machine it belongs to. The player picks what is wrong from a set of plain choices such as a stuck ball or a flipper problem, adds a description, and can attach a photo.

Contact details are optional. If the player leaves an address and asks to be told when it is fixed, Pinventory emails them once you resolve the report.

The page reads in the visitor's own language where Pinventory has it, then falls back to your region and then to English.

The public report form as a player sees it after scanning the code.
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Handle the report

Reports arrive on the machine's Issues tab, alongside the issues you and your team raise yourselves. Work them the same way.

When you resolve a report, Pinventory offers to log the maintenance at the same time, so the fix is recorded against the machine rather than living only in the issue.

The Issues tab on a machine showing a player-submitted report.
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Good to know

  • The public form never exposes your fleet. It shows one machine and takes a report, nothing more.
  • Collector accounts have the public code hidden, since there is no venue and no public to report from. Issue tracking still works.
  • Put the card where a player stands, on the front of the cabinet or beside the coin door. A code on the back gets scanned by nobody.

Do this in Pinventory

Free for collectors and small operators. No card needed to start.