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Control the Preview for a Shopify QR Campaign Link

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FlashWombat team
FlashWombat team
Shopify QR campaign guides

Every FlashWombat QR campaign includes a supporting public link. The link's primary role is to keep QR routing dynamic and measurable, but it can also be shared in social posts, creator messages, email, SMS, or chats. A social preview helps that secondary surface match the campaign before someone opens it.

FlashWombat can return preview metadata to a crawler while continuing to route real shoppers to the campaign destination.

When a link is shared, a social or messaging platform may request it before a shopper does. The platform reads Open Graph or Twitter card metadata and may build a preview containing:

  • A title.
  • A description.
  • An image.
  • Image alt text.

The platform decides what it finally displays. It may cache old information, crop an image, shorten text, or omit a card based on the app, account, post type, or device.

How FlashWombat Separates Crawlers and Shoppers​

For known crawlers, a FlashWombat campaign link can return lightweight preview HTML. For an ordinary shopper, it resolves the campaign and redirects to the configured product, collection, ready cart, raw URL, or smart destination.

Crawler requests do not create ordinary visit history. Bot filtering also reduces known automated traffic in campaign analytics, though it cannot prove that every remaining visit is a unique person.

Configure the Campaign Preview​

  1. Open the QR campaign in FlashWombat.
  2. Under the campaign's marketing and sharing options, open Social preview.
  3. Review the generated defaults.
  4. Set a campaign-specific title and description.
  5. Add a public HTTPS image URL or upload an image through the editor.
  6. Write useful image alt text.
  7. Save the QR campaign.

Conditional smart destinations can have destination-specific preview metadata. Use that only when the branch itself needs a different image or message.

Test Before Sharing​

Before the campaign link reaches a broad audience:

  • Open the supporting link as a shopper and confirm the final destination.
  • Use a campaign-specific image with a public HTTPS address.
  • Keep the title concise and the description able to survive truncation.
  • Check the preview in the channel that matters.
  • Expect platforms to cache previous metadata.
  • Keep the final destination consistent with what the preview promises.

A polished preview cannot make an offer true, force a platform to display metadata, or establish campaign attribution. It simply gives the campaign's supporting link a more deliberate sharing surface.

Configure the Feature​

Follow Configure an Advanced QR Campaign for the full editor workflow. If you have not created a campaign yet, review the Shopify QR campaign product path first.