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Link Manager & Short Links

Link Manager is your single hub for short links, QR codes, and the analytics behind them. Create trackable short links with editable destinations, group everything by campaign, run A/B tests with smart targeting, and read one org-wide dashboard across every link and code you own.

You reach it from Image Forge, alongside your QR codes. Open it from Image Forge > QR. The short-link domain is tcfqr.link, and you can put your own brand in front of it.

Availability may depend on your workspace or plan. If you do not see the Links tabs, contact support.

The four tabs

Link Manager organises everything into a single Links + QR hub with four tabs.

Tab
What it does

QR Codes

Your dynamic (editable) and static QR codes, with the same design, metadata, and scan analytics covered in QR Manager.

Link Shortener

Create standalone short links - a destination only, with no QR required. You can still render a matching QR if you want one.

Combined Analytics

One org-wide dashboard across every link and QR code, with campaign grouping.

Settings

Claim, update, or remove your branded subdomain, with a live preview.

Use the Link Shortener tab to turn any long destination into a clean, trackable tcfqr.link link - no QR code needed. Each short link behaves exactly like a dynamic QR, so you get the same controls.

Control
What you get

Editable destination

Change where a link points at any time. The short link stays the same, so anywhere you have already shared or printed it keeps working and follows your update.

Click tracking

Every click is recorded for analytics, including total, unique, human, and bot clicks.

Custom slug

Set your own memorable back-half, for example tcfqr.link/spring-sale.

Tags

Label links so you can filter and group them later.

Bulk create

Generate many links at once instead of one at a time.

CSV export

Download your links and their stats as a spreadsheet.

Optional QR

Render a matching QR code for the same short link whenever you want print and on-screen to share one destination.

Because the destination is editable, you can point a single link at different pages over a campaign's life - a waitlist today, the live product tomorrow - without ever reissuing the link.

Combined analytics

The Combined Analytics tab gives you one dashboard for your whole organisation, spanning every short link and QR code together rather than one code at a time.

At a glance you can see:

  • Total, human, unique, and bot clicks across everything.

  • How many of your assets are QR codes versus plain short links.

  • A time-series you can view by day, week, or month.

  • A breakdown by any dimension - country, city, region, device, browser, operating system, language, referrer, and more.

Every dimension keeps visitor privacy intact: IP addresses are hashed or truncated and never stored in raw form.

Campaign grouping

Combined Analytics can roll your links and codes up by campaign, so you measure a whole initiative instead of individual assets. Group either by a named campaign you assign, or by the UTM campaign value baked into the link. Tag your links and set consistent UTM parameters when you create them, and each campaign's total reach lands in one place.

A/B testing and smart targeting

Any short link or QR code can do more than point at a single page. At the moment someone clicks or scans, Link Manager can decide where to send them.

Capability
How it works

A/B testing

Rotate a link between destination variants so you can compare which page performs best.

Geo targeting

Route visitors to different destinations by country or region.

Device targeting

Send mobile and desktop visitors to different pages.

Language targeting

Match the destination to the visitor's language.

Time targeting

Change where a link points based on the time of the click.

Because these decisions happen at click time on the link you already shared, you can adjust the rules without touching anything you have printed or posted.

Branded subdomains

By default your short links live on tcfqr.link/your-slug. In the Settings tab you can claim a branded subdomain so links read as yourbrand.tcfqr.link/your-slug instead. A live preview shows exactly how your links will look before you save, and you can update or remove the subdomain later.

The plain tcfqr.link/your-slug form always keeps working too, so nothing you have already shared breaks when you add, change, or remove your brand.

  • QR Manager - dynamic and static QR codes, design, and scan analytics.

  • Image Forge - the visual workspace where Link Manager lives, and home of the one-off Quick Static QR.

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