Buyer's guide
Seven questions worth answering before you commit to any provider — including the ones most providers would rather you didn't ask. We've included how Moments by QR answers them, so you can hold us to the same standard.
Judge it on seven things: whether the cost is one-off or recurring, whether the family controls privacy, whether more than one person can manage it, what the memorial actually holds, whether it connects to the resting place, what happens to it in twenty years, and whether it helps you remember rather than only store.
If you are still deciding what kind of thing you want, start with what a digital memorial is or how they work.
Take these to any provider, not just this one.
A memorial is meant to outlast the person paying for it. A recurring fee means the record depends on someone continuing to pay — and on someone remembering to.
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Moments by QR: £79.99 one-off, with a Lifetime Licence.
Some families want a memorial the whole community can visit. Others want a private record. A provider that only offers one of those decides something that isn't theirs to decide.
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Moments by QR: Three modes: public; public with role and access controls; private and PIN-protected.
If a memorial is tied to one login on one phone, it is one lost password away from being unreachable. Shared roles are what make it survivable.
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Moments by QR: Four roles — Owner, Delegate, Contributor and Nominee — set up in the app.
Many memorial pages are effectively an obituary and a photo. That records a death. A structured memorial records a life — and gives the family prompts for what to write down while people still remember it.
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Moments by QR: Six sections: Biography, Timeline, Gallery, Family Tree, Tribute Book, Grave Location.
A memorial that nobody can find is a memorial nobody visits. A grave connection matters most for families who live far from where a relative is buried.
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Moments by QR: Grave location is a built-in section; an optional 5cm × 5cm matte black QR plaque links to the memorial.
This is the question most providers answer least clearly, and the only one that really tests whether something is a memorial or a web page.
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Moments by QR: Lifetime Licence.
Storage is passive. Most families do not return to a page unprompted — the memorial that gets used is the one that comes back to you.
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Moments by QR: On This Day resurfaces moments on their anniversary; custom notifications are set by the family.
Anything that quietly makes the memorial temporary, public by default, or dependent on one person. Those are the three ways a memorial stops being one.
Practices around burial and remembrance differ enormously. A memorial that assumes a public tribute wall, a headstone photograph or a Western funeral format will fit some families badly.
For Muslim families in particular, plain graves and relatives spread across countries change what a memorial has to do — what that means in practice. And if you are considering a plaque at the graveside, check the burial ground's rules before you buy anything: QR memorials and grave permission.
One payment, family-controlled privacy, four management roles, six structured sections and an optional QR plaque at the resting place.
The category page: what a memorial page holds and who it is for.
Every step from creating a memorial to remembering years later.
How long a memorial lasts, who owns the content, and what if a provider closes.
How a scannable plaque connects a resting place to the memorial.
