Wi-Fi, check-out, the boiler, the bins, the good bakery. Put it in one PDF, turn it into a link and a QR code, and stop reprinting the binder every time something changes.
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Upload the house manual as a PDF and you get a link and a QR code. Print the QR on a card by the door or on the fridge; guests scan it and the manual opens in a viewer on their phone, no app and no login. When the Wi-Fi password or the check-out time changes, replace the file and the same QR opens the new version. The view counter shows whether guests opened it.
A laminated binder on the counter often goes unopened. A QR on the fridge, the back of the door or the key tag is where people actually look, and it opens the manual on the phone already in their hand.
A new router, a changed bin day, a bakery that closed. Edit your document, export a new PDF and replace the file behind the link. The QR codes already stuck around the house keep working and now open the new version.
Turn a PDF into a QR codeSome things are easier to show than describe: resetting the boiler, filling the coffee machine, working the hot-tub cover. Upload the manual with a few clips as one album behind one link and one QR, with video seeking on the phone.
Video to linkEvery link has a view counter, so you can see whether the manual is being read at all. On Pro ($9/month) you can also get a notification when someone opens the link, which many hosts read as a quiet signal the guests have arrived.
How to know if someone opened your PDFIt is not a guidebook app. No per-guest personalisation, no messaging, no upsells, no booking-platform integration. It is your PDF behind a link.
No editing in the browser. You edit the manual in your own document tool and upload the new PDF. The link stays the same.
Guests need a connection. The manual opens online. Guests can download a copy for offline use unless you switch downloads off.
Unlisted is not secret. Anyone with the link or a photo of the QR can open it. Keep door codes out, or add a password on Pro.
Canva, Word, Google Docs or Pages all export a PDF. Put the everyday things first (Wi-Fi, heating, check-out, bins) and the local tips at the back. Large headings read better on a phone than dense paragraphs.
Drop the PDF on the upload card: up to 100 MB on Free and 200 MB on Pro. Download the QR code and print it on a card for the door, a fridge magnet or the first page of the paper binder.
Put the same link in the booking message a day before check-in, so guests can read the parking and key instructions before they are standing outside in the rain.
A laminated binder on the kitchen counter often goes unopened, or gets opened only after the guest has already messaged you to ask for the Wi-Fi. A QR code on the fridge, the back of the door or the key tag is where people actually look, and it opens the manual on the device already in their hand. It is also easy to navigate: the viewer lets guests jump through pages and zoom in on the diagram of the fuse box.
Manuals go out of date constantly: a new router, a changed bin day, a bakery that closed. With a printed binder, every change means reprinting. Here you edit your document, export a new PDF and replace the file behind the existing link. The QR codes already stuck around the house keep working and now open the new version. There is no second link to send and nothing to reprint.
Some things are easier to show than describe: resetting the boiler, filling the coffee machine, working the hot-tub cover. Upload the manual together with a few short clips and they become one album behind one link and one QR. The PDF opens in a viewer, and the videos stream on the guest's phone with seeking, so they can skip straight to the part they need.
An open link can be forwarded, and a QR on a door can be photographed by anyone who walks past. So keep the manual itself free of anything that unlocks the property, and send door codes and lockbox numbers in the booking message for each stay. If you want the whole manual behind a lock, Pro adds a password, and you can give the password out with the key. Wi-Fi passwords are a judgement call. Many hosts put them in the manual because it saves the 11pm message; if you do, consider a separate guest network.
Every link has a view counter, so you can see whether the manual is being read at all, and whether putting the QR by the door beat leaving the binder on the counter. On Pro ($9/month) you can also get a notification when someone opens the link, which for many hosts doubles as a quiet signal that the guests have arrived.
If your guests come from different countries, make one PDF per language. Either give each its own link and its own QR (with a small flag next to each code), or upload them together as one album so a single QR opens a page where guests pick their language. Each version can be updated independently without touching the others.
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Pick a control to see it applied to a real link. Free with every link, and more when you go Pro.
Custom link namePRO
Name the link yourself instead of a random code. linkinseconds.com/p/your-name reads clean in an email, on a slide, or under a QR code.
Password protectPRO
Add a password and the file stays sealed until someone types it. The link can be forwarded anywhere and still only opens for people who have the word.
Expiry & view limitPRO
Set an end date or a view cap and the link stops on its own. Send a quote that expires Friday, or a preview that closes after five opens, without remembering to delete it.
Free QR codeFREE
Every link gets a crisp QR code, free on any plan. Put it on a menu, a flyer, a wall label or a product box, and it opens the same link a tap would.
View trackingFREE
See how many people opened the link and when, free on every plan. Go Pro for the full picture: referrers, devices, countries, and QR-vs-direct opens.
A QR on the fridge that opens Wi-Fi, check-out and appliance tips, updated without reprinting.
Leave one link for the house-sitter or the new tenant, with the boiler, the bins and the stopcock.
One manual per property on Pro, with passwords and open notifications across the portfolio.
Bundle the PDF with short how-to clips for the boiler or hot tub, all behind one link and QR.
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Upload your house manual, stick the code on the fridge, and change the file whenever the house changes.