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# Unitag Scheduler

A printed QR code cannot be reprinted at midnight. Scheduler is what lets it change anyway: you plan the change in advance, and the platform applies it at the date and time you set.

The console states it in one line — automate URL and content changes for your QR codes at set dates and times. What that removes is the person who would otherwise have to be at a keyboard at the right moment.

![The Scheduler control panel: the QR Codes and Packaging schedulers in the left rail with the activity log below them, and the Create schedule button beside an empty state](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/scheduler/en/scheduler-app.webp)

## What you can automate

A schedule attaches to one QR code and holds up to three changes. Each change carries a date and time, and one of two kinds of instruction:

- **Swap the destination URL**: the code stays a URL code and starts pointing somewhere else.
- **Switch the content type entirely**: the code stops being a URL and becomes an event, a document, a plain text message, a Wi-Fi network — any of the content types the generator offers.

The second is the part people underestimate. A QR code is not locked to the kind of content it was created with, so a code printed on a poster can be a URL during a campaign and an event afterwards, with the switch planned weeks ahead.

## What it works with

Scheduler works with dynamic QR codes and with the Packaging solution. Both resolve through Unitag at scan time, which is what makes a later change possible at all.

A static QR code encodes its destination in the pattern itself, so nothing on our side can change where it leads. If a code needs to be scheduled, it needs to be dynamic — see QR code types.

The app's left rail reflects this: one scheduler for QR Codes and one for Packaging, each with its own count, plus the shared activity log.

- [QR code types](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/qrcodes/types)
- [Smart Packaging](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/packaging/introduction)

## What it is good for

The pattern is always the same — one code, several lives:

- **A promotion with an end date.** The code on the flyer points at the offer while it runs, and at the general catalogue the morning after it ends. Nobody has to remember.
- **A restaurant menu that follows the service.** One code on the table: breakfast until 11:00, lunch until 15:00, dinner in the evening. Three changes a day, planned once.
- **An event that becomes a replay.** Before the date the code is an Event, so scanning it adds the session to a calendar; after it, the same code becomes a URL pointing at the recording.
- **A product page that opens at launch.** Packs are printed and shipped weeks early; the code shows a holding page until the launch date, then the real product page.
- **A seasonal pack.** The same printed pack points at the summer recipe set in June and at the winter one in November.

## Where to find it

Scheduler is in the Tools group of console.unitag.io, or at the Scheduler entry in the console's left navigation.

## In this section

- [Create a schedule](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/scheduler/create-a-schedule)
- [Activity log](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/scheduler/activity-log)

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