Paste your Google listing and get the one link that opens the review box, a code you can print, and a card for the counter. Free, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Open your listing on google.com/maps in a browser and copy the whole address out of the address bar. A Place ID on its own works too.
Or try one of these
Those three are made-up listings, so the links they build are made up too. They are here to show what the box accepts.
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If you can sign in to the business, your Business Profile hands you a finished review link — paste that. If you cannot, Google’s Place ID Finder gives you the ID from your business name. The three ways to get one are below.
The link appears straight away. Open it and make sure your own business name is at the top of the review box. We never contact Google, so this is the only check there is.
Say how far away people will be scanning from and the page works out how wide to print it. Take the PNG, or the SVG for a sign shop. The card puts the code under a line of your own words.
Every Google review link is the same address with one thing changed at the end: your Place ID. The lit part above is the only piece that is yours, and finding it is the whole job — the rest is typed for you.
The identifier drawn here is invented, so the link it makes is invented too.
| What you have | What it looks like | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| A Maps address with a Place ID in it | google.com/maps/place/…/data=…!19sChIJ… | Works. The ID is read out of the address. |
| A Place ID on its own | ChIJ… (usually 27 characters) | Works. Used exactly as typed. |
| A place link built from an ID | google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ… | Works. Also google.com/maps/search/?…&query_place_id=ChIJ… |
| A review link you already have | g.page/r/…/review or search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=… | Works. It comes straight back, with a code and a card. |
| A shortened share link | maps.app.goo.gl/… , goo.gl/maps/… , g.co/… | Refused. There is no ID inside a redirect and this page never follows one. Open it in a browser and copy the long address. |
| A listing ID | google.com/maps?cid=… , …&ludocid=… , 0x…:0x… | Refused. It names your business but it is not a Place ID, and converting it needs a call to Google. |
| A profile short link | g.page/your-business | Refused. That opens your listing, not the review form. |
| Anything else | your own website, a Facebook page, a Yelp listing | Refused. Only a Google listing has a Google review link. |
Google publishes no format for a review link anywhere. Its own help page tells you to press Copy in your Business Profile and never says what the copied link looks like, so the address above is the form every tool of this kind uses rather than one Google documents. On September 5, 2026 we checked that the address is live: signed out, it redirects to Google’s sign-in page carrying the review link with it, which is what a customer who is not signed in would meet. That says the address works. It says nothing about whether the ID you paste is the right business, which is why the tool asks you to open it once.
If you can sign in to the business on Google.
This hands you a finished review link, so there is no Place ID to find at all. Google says the QR code on that screen can only be made on a computer, not on a phone — ours works either way.
If you cannot sign in, or somebody else manages the listing.
Free, no account, about thirty seconds. This is the one to use when the address bar turns out to have nothing in it.
If you are already looking at your listing on a computer.
Some Maps addresses carry the Place ID and some carry only a listing number, which cannot be turned into a review link here. Paste it and the box says which one you have.
About 300 mm (11.8 in) away
A card by the till, a slip in the bag, the bottom of an invoice or a receipt.
About 1000 mm (39.4 in) away
A table tent, a window sticker, a card propped up next to the card machine.
About 3000 mm (118.1 in) away
A van door, a yard sign, a board on a wall people walk past.
Worked out for a link like the one this tool builds: 79 characters long, which comes out 45 squares a side. A longer Place ID makes a denser code and slightly different figures, so take the numbers the tool prints under your own code rather than these.
The second figure is the one to give a printer. That pale border is part of the code, and a code butted against a dark panel or the edge of a sticker stops scanning at any width.
Behind all three is one rule of thumb: a code reads from about 10 times its own width. Denso Wave, who invented the QR code, publish no ratio at all and say only to print as large as the space allows, and every source that states the figure is a QR generator’s own blog. So print one and try it with your own phone, from where people will really be standing.
It is Google's own name for one listing on Google Maps. It looks like one long run of letters, numbers, dashes and underscores — usually about 27 characters and often starting ChIJ, though Google says there is no maximum length. The review link is that ID pasted onto the end of a fixed Google address, which is why the ID is the only thing this tool needs from you. Google also says one place can have more than one ID, and that an ID can change over time.
Three routes. If you can sign in to the business, your Business Profile has a ready-made review link under Read Reviews and then Get more reviews — copy that and you need no ID at all. If you cannot sign in, Google's Place ID Finder gives you the ID from your business name in about thirty seconds, free and without an account. And if you are already looking at your listing on a computer, the address in the address bar sometimes carries the ID — paste it here and this page will tell you whether it did.
No, and no tool that says it does on a page like this is telling you the truth. We never contact Google — the link is built from the ID you paste, so it is correctly formed, not verified. Open it once yourself and make sure your own business name is at the top of the review box before you print a hundred of them.
Wherever the customer already is when the job has just gone well: a card by the till, the last line of an invoice or a receipt, the thank-you text or email you already send, a sticker on the van door, a card propped up by the card machine. The code and the link do the same thing, so use the code where somebody is standing in front of you and the link where you are already sending them something to tap.
That is a shortened link, and there is nothing inside it to read — the real address only exists once the link has been followed, and this page never follows one. Open the short link in a web browser on a computer, wait for the map, then copy the long address out of the address bar. It is the share button that gives you the short one, which is why almost everybody hits this first.
Ask, yes. Offer, no. Google's Maps content policy forbids offering payment, discounts or free goods in exchange for a review, and it also says a business must not selectively ask only the customers likely to say something good, or pressure anybody into leaving one on the premises. So ask everybody, ask while the job is fresh, and hand them the link or the code rather than telling them to look you up. Whoever you ask needs a Google account to leave a review; they can make one with any email address.
Neither has an expiry date. The link is written inside the code itself, so the code keeps working for as long as the link does — there is no account behind it and nothing of ours it depends on. Two things follow. A printed code cannot be edited, so if the link ever changes you print a new code. And Google says a Place ID can change over time, which we have no way to know about from here, so open your own code with a phone every few months.
It depends on how far away people will be standing. The tool works it out and shows the width in millimetres and inches, plus how much clear space to leave around it — that pale border is part of the code and a code butted against a dark panel does not scan at any size. The common rule is that a code reads from about 10 times its own width, which is a rule of thumb rather than a published standard, so print one and try it with your own phone from where people will really be.
Free, with no account and no limit, and nothing you type leaves your browser. Reading the ID, building the link, drawing the code and drawing the card all happen on your own device. Nothing is sent to us, nothing is sent to Google, and nothing is stored.
Google’s own rules on asking for reviews are in its Maps content policy. Read more in our privacy policy and terms of use.
