We got that question recently, and it is completely fair. Putting a QR code on a manual is free and takes seconds. Except: that is the easy part. The real work starts afterwards, and that is where the do-it-yourself approach runs into trouble.
Take your videos and photos. Someone has to host them somewhere, in a format that plays on every phone, with links that still work two years from now. That is a server cost, a maintenance cost and a risk of broken links. With manualy you simply upload your media and we handle the rest: the hosting, converting video to a universal format, and the storage, included in your plan with no surprise invoice.
And the rest comes built in
- One QR that always shows the latest version, so you never reprint after an update.
- Multilingual with AI translation, and visitors automatically see their own language.
- Insight into scans, so you know what is actually used.
- Repoint a QR to something else later, without reprinting.
- Printable labels with your logo, a structure with devices and attributes, a REST API and an AI connector.
So yes, anyone can make a QR code. But a manual that is always current, works in every language, hosts itself and measures how often it is used: that is manualy.