Comparison

QRever vs Beaconstac

Beaconstac (now Uniqode) is a business QR platform sold on annual plans. QRever is built for everyone else — pay once, keep your codes.

Last reviewed October 9, 2026

Beaconstac — now rebranded as Uniqode — is an enterprise-grade QR platform with bulk creation, an API, team management, retail and GS1 features, and serious support. If you’re a large organisation that needs all of that and has procurement to handle an annual contract, it’s a comprehensive choice.

Most people printing a QR code are not that organisation. They want a code on a menu, a card, or a product that simply keeps working — without seats, tiers, or a subscription. QRever gives them editable, trackable codes and hosted QR Pages for a single payment, never deactivated.

Feature by feature

QRever vs Beaconstac, line by line

	QRever	Beaconstac
How you pay	Once	Subscription
Destination editable after one payment	Yes	Needs an active plan
Codes keep working if you stop paying	Yes	No
Scan limits	None	By plan
Free static QR codes	Yes	Yes
Hosted QR Pages (menu, vCard, links, event)	Yes	Yes
Static fallback if the service ever ends	Yes	No
Bulk creation & API	Bulk yes · API not yet	Yes
Setup	Minutes, no contract	Self-serve; sales for Enterprise
India pricing (INR · UPI / Razorpay)	Yes	USD

Pricing

One payment vs every month

	QRever	Beaconstac
How often you pay	Once	Every year (annual billing)
Entry dynamic QR code	₹999 / $19, one time	Paid plan, billed recurring
Three codes, over three years	₹2,499 / $49, one time	≈$324 — Essential, $9/mo × 36
Ten dynamic codes	₹7,499 / $149, one time	Higher plan, billed recurring
What you owe in year three	Nothing more	Still paying every cycle
If the contract lapses	Codes keep working	Dynamic codes stop redirecting

QRever prices are one-time and shown in full. Beaconstac / Uniqode pricing is a recurring subscription, billed yearly, that changes over time — check their site for current rates. The three-year figure is their cheapest plan that supports three editable codes, at rates verified in October 2026 against Uniqode’s pricing page, and assumes no price rise.

The catch

What happens when you stop paying

Beaconstac’s codes live inside a subscription, often an annual one tied to seats or code counts. When a contract isn’t renewed — a budget cut, a tool consolidation, a team change — the dynamic codes the company printed stop resolving — Uniqode’s own pricing FAQ says that if you cancel, your QR codes become inactive. At enterprise scale, that can mean thousands of dead codes in the field at once.

QRever’s model avoids that single point of failure. Each code is bought outright and is never deactivated for billing. Every paid code carries a one-click export and every dynamic code a Static Fallback Generator, and if QRever ever closed, every active paid code would keep working for at least 5 years — so the destination is portable and survives independently of us.

Switching

Leaving Beaconstac without reprinting

There’s no repoint-and-leave route out of Uniqode. Its help centre says dynamic codes expire only if the account is cancelled — and its pricing FAQ adds that for codes to work, the linked account has to stay active. Point a code at your own site before cancelling and it stops anyway, because the redirect itself is what switches off.

What makes the exit manageable is the billing cycle. Uniqode plans are billed yearly, so you know the date the codes go dark well in advance. Treat the months before renewal as the replacement window: print new codes into material you were reprinting anyway, and let the plan lapse once the last high-traffic code is replaced. The exception is codes on your own custom domain (an add-on on Uniqode’s higher plans): those can be moved by recreating the same paths elsewhere and switching the domain’s DNS.

Note your renewal date — that’s your deadline, not the day you decide to leave.
Export every code’s destination and scan history from the dashboard.
Rank codes by recent scans and by how hard the material is to replace: signage and packaging first, flyers last.
Create replacement codes and swap them in during print runs you were already doing before the renewal date.
If some codes use your own domain, recreate their paths on the new service and change the DNS before the plan ends.
Let the plan lapse only when the codes still on Uniqode are ones you can afford to lose.

The general method, for any provider: how to switch QR code providers without reprinting.

The verdict

Choose Beaconstac / Uniqode if you’re an enterprise that genuinely needs seats, bulk, an API, and a support contract. Choose QRever if you want the same never-expiring outcome without the contract — a code you pay for once and keep, with no scan limits and no renewal to forget.

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Sources

Every claim about Beaconstac on this page comes from Beaconstac’s own help centre, terms and pricing pages, read on October 9, 2026. We haven’t bought a Beaconstac plan to test it. If their product behaves differently from their documentation, write to support@qrever.com and we’ll correct the page.

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