QR codes are a great marketing tool.

Thanks to the wide use of smartphones, potential customers can simply pull out their favourite barcode scanning app, take a picture of your code and visit your chosen website page. This can be a great call-to-action within your PowerPoint presentation.

But generating the code and putting into PowerPoint means visiting a website, creating the code, downloading the image, inserting it into a slide and even then, depending on how you’re projecting the slide show, the resolution of the image may not be suitable.

What if you could Insert a QR code directly from your PowerPoint ribbon? That’d be cool right?

We’ve prototyped an add-in for PowerPoint to do just that, offering the following:

• Multiple image formats : PNG, JPG, GIF, TIF
• Scalable vector format
• Customisable size in cm, mm, inches, pixels
• Multiple coding formats such as QR, 128, 2 of 5, EAN, UAC and many more
• Styling options : foreground color and background colour

To offer it as a product, we need to know if there’s interest for such a feature and how much you think it’d be worth.