Show Spanish speakers your Spanish menu automatically

If a good share of your customers speak Spanish, you've probably thought about a Spanish menu. The harder part is getting it in front of the right people. A second QR code labeled "Español" works, but it doubles the clutter on every table, and plenty of people won't look for it.

There's a simpler way: one code that opens the Spanish version for Spanish speakers and the English version for everyone else.

How the phone tells us

Every phone has a main language, set when it was first turned on. When someone scans a code, their browser sends that language along with the request. A language rule reads it and decides where the scan goes.

The rule looks at the phone's main language only. Someone whose phone is in Spanish, with English as a backup, counts as Spanish. Regional versions count too: a rule for Spanish matches phones set to Spanish from Mexico, Spain, the United States or anywhere else.

Set it up

1. Make sure your menu (or form, or page) exists in both languages, each at its own link.
2. Create a code and set the base URL to the English version.
3. Add a language rule for Spanish that goes to the Spanish version.
4. In the simulator on the code's page, pick Spanish as the phone's language and check where a scan lands. Then try English.

That's it. Print the code once, and each customer sees the menu they can read.

It works the other way around too. If most of your customers speak Spanish, make the Spanish menu the base URL and add a rule for English. And it isn't limited to Spanish: any language a phone can be set to can have its own rule, up to 10 rules per code.

The pages around it are in Spanish too

On the free plan, a scan shows a short hold page before it redirects, with where the scan is going and a link to report a code that looks wrong. That page now speaks the phone's language as well, so a Spanish speaker sees "Te llevamos a..." instead of "Taking you to...". Anything you wrote on your hold page stays exactly as you wrote it.

And if you'd rather run your account in Spanish, all of Smarter QR Code is available in Spanish at smarterqrcode.com/es.

Good places for it

• Restaurant menus and specials boards
• Sign-up and intake forms, like a clinic's new patient form or a gym's waiver
• Real estate listings, where you already have the listing in both languages
• Community events and churches, for schedules and announcements

What it costs

Language rules can be built and tested with the simulator on the free plan. On the free plan, real scans go to the base URL. The $60/year plan runs the rules on real scans, sends people straight to their page with no hold page, and shows which rule each scan matched, so you can see how many of your scans come from Spanish speakers.

Try it free, or read how to switch menus by time of day with the same code.