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A scan is recorded the moment someone opens your QR Code’s page or short link — once per visit, regardless of what happens after that. This page explains how that holds true when a QR Code also has a password, age restriction, lead form, linked form, or GPS location gate turned on.

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One scan per visit, gate or no gate

Opening a QR Code that has no gates at all records exactly one scan. A QR Code with one or more gates configured works the same way: the scan is recorded as soon as the gate is shown, and that single scan carries through to whatever the visitor does next. This means:
  • A gate that’s never completed still counts as a scan. If a visitor sees your password prompt, age check, or lead form and closes the tab without finishing it, that’s still one real scan of your QR Code — the same way it would be if there were no gate at all.
  • Multiple gates on one QR Code don’t multiply the count. A QR Code with, say, both an age restriction and a lead form shows both gates in sequence, but the whole sequence — from the first gate to the final page — is one visit, one scan.
  • Data collected through a gate belongs to that same scan. An age gate’s date-of-birth answer, a GPS location gate’s coordinates, and a linked form or lead capture’s responses are all recorded against the visit that triggered them — they show up together in your Analytics dashboard and Export Scan Data, not as separate, disconnected entries.

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What does count as a new scan

A genuinely new page load counts as a new scan — for example, a visitor scanning the same QR Code again later, or opening the link fresh in a new session. This is the same behavior as a QR Code with no gates at all: each real visit is its own scan, which is what Total Scans measures.

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Repeat-visibility settings are per QR Code

If you’ve linked the same form to more than one QR Code (see Skip button & form gates), each QR Code’s own User-Based Display Rule setting — for example, hiding the form after someone has already seen or submitted it — is tracked independently per QR Code. A visitor completing or dismissing the form through one QR Code doesn’t affect whether the same form still shows on a different QR Code, even though they share the same form.
  • Analytics dashboard — where Total Scans, Unique Scans, and the rest of your scan data live
  • Bot scans — a different kind of scan-counting nuance: automated traffic, not real visitors
  • Skip button & form gates — setting up a password, age, lead, or form gate on a QR Code