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Their life story, written by the people who knew them.
QR memorial
QR Memorials: Connect a Resting Place to Their Story
A QR memorial pairs a scannable plaque at a resting place with a digital memorial. The plaque sits where the person is buried; the memorial behind it holds their biography, photographs, timeline, family connections and tributes — with your family deciding who can see it.
- 5cm × 5cm QR plaque
- Scan opens the memorial
- Family privacy controls
- Lifetime Licence
What is a QR memorial?
A QR memorial is a scannable QR plaque placed at a resting place that opens a digital memorial for the person buried there. Scanning it with a phone brings up the memories, photographs and life information their family has chosen to preserve, instead of only a name and two dates.
The plaque is the doorway; the memorial is the thing worth keeping. For the wider category — what a memorial page holds and how it is managed — see digital memorials.
How does a memorial QR code work?
In three steps: the memorial is created in the app, a QR plaque is connected to it, and anyone who scans that plaque at the resting place is taken to the memorial on their phone.
Step 1: The memorial is created
A family sets up the Memorial Page in the Moments by QR app and adds the person's story, photographs and grave location.
Step 2: The QR plaque is connected
A 5cm × 5cm matte black QR plaque is linked to that memorial, then placed at the resting place with the burial ground's permission.
Step 3: A visitor scans it
Someone at the graveside points a phone camera at the code and the memorial opens — subject to the privacy setting the family chose.
Step by step, in more detail, on how digital memorials work.
What happens when you scan a QR code on a grave?
The memorial page opens on the visitor's phone. With Moments by QR that page is built from the same six sections every time, so a visitor sees a life recorded in full rather than a single photograph.
Timeline
The moments that shaped the life, placed in order.
Gallery
Photographs and media held together in one place.
Family Tree
Recorded family connections across generations.
Tribute Book
Messages left by those who came to remember.
Grave Location
Resting place information, so the grave can be found again.
Can you put a QR code on a grave?
Technically, yes — a QR plaque is small and can be fixed to a headstone, marker or memorial object. Permission is the separate question: cemeteries, burial grounds and councils each set their own rules about what may be attached to a grave.
Ask the burial ground before ordering or attaching anything. Rules differ between grounds and can differ between sections of the same ground, so we do not publish a general rule here — only the advice to get the answer in writing from whoever manages the site. Who decides, and what to ask them, is set out in cemetery permission for a QR code on a grave.
Where a QR memorial plaque can go
- At the resting place — on a headstone or grave marker, where the burial ground permits it.
- On a memorial object — a plaque, bench or keepsake kept by the family.
- At home — the memorial does not depend on the plaque being outdoors at all.
A memorial page works with or without a plaque. The plaque only adds a way to reach it from a physical place.
How is a QR memorial different from an ordinary QR code?
The square itself is the same technology anyone can generate. What makes it a memorial is what sits behind it: a structured, maintained page about a person, with privacy the family controls and a place to keep adding what matters.
An ordinary QR code
Points at whatever link it was generated from. If that link moves, expires or is taken down, the code stops meaning anything — and there is nobody responsible for the page it opened.
A QR memorial
Opens a memorial with a defined structure — biography, timeline, gallery, family tree, tributes and grave location — held in an account a family manages, with a privacy setting they chose.
Can a QR memorial be private?
Yes. A scannable plaque does not have to mean a public page. With Moments by QR a memorial can be public, public with role and access controls, or private and PIN-protected — so a stranger who scans the plaque sees only what the family allows.
- Public. Anyone who scans the plaque can view the memorial.
- Public with role/access controls. Viewable, with access managed through the roles the family sets up.
- Private / PIN-protected. The memorial opens only for people who have the PIN.
Access is shared through the Owner, Delegate, Contributor and Nominee roles. Worth thinking through before you choose any provider: what to ask about privacy and family control.
Order a QR memorial
A Moments by QR Memorial Page with the biography, timeline, gallery, family tree, tributes and grave location — and a QR plaque that opens it from the resting place.
- £79.99 one-off
- QR plaque, 5cm × 5cm, matte black finish
- Lifetime Licence
Check with the cemetery or burial ground before fixing anything to a grave. Designed with Muslim families in mind — see what that means in practice.
Keep reading
What a digital memorial holds
The category page: what a memorial page contains and how families manage it.
How digital memorials work
The seven-step process from creating a memorial to remembering over time.
Cemetery rules explained
Who decides what may be placed on a grave, and what to ask before ordering.
QR codes on graves
The practical side: what a scan opens and why it is not a headstone.
How to choose a provider
A checklist of questions to ask before you commit to any memorial service.