One scan replaces
a cardboard sign, a paper flyer, a passed collection plate.
Every Dream Funnel™ cause generates a unique, printable QR code. Anyone with a smartphone camera can scan it, land on your mini-site, read your story, and donate — usually in under 20 seconds. No app to install, no wallet to set up, no cash to carry.
How it works, start to finish
- You create a cause on Dream Funnel (name, photo, short story, goal). Takes ~90 seconds.
- The moment you publish, we generate a high-error-correction QR code that points to your mini-site (
dreamfunnel.net/c/your-slug). - You download the printable poster — the QR is big, has a fallback URL underneath, and prints cleanly on any home printer.
- Put the poster where your audience will see it: a window, a bulletin, a walk-piece, a sign you hold.
- A passerby scans with their phone → mini-site opens → they read your story → they donate → money hits your Stripe account within days.
Why QR beats cash, Venmo, and cardboard
Every smartphone since 2017 reads QR codes from the native camera. Nobody has to install anything.
Print it 400 times, plaster the city. Every scan lands on the same mini-site, tracks the same goal.
Our QR codes survive a crumpled poster, a rain-warped page, or a printer running low on ink. Corner damage is fine.
Unlike a Venmo cashtag, the scanner lands on YOUR story with a photo, a goal, and transparent updates.
Where our QR codes actually get used
- On a cardboard sign. A person experiencing homelessness holds a sign with the QR taped to it. Passersby who can't stop and hand cash can still scan while walking by.
- Taped to a classroom door. Teacher raising for pencils. Parents scan on their way past at pickup.
- In a church bulletin. Sunday scan for the family-in-crisis fund. Members give directly without needing to write a check.
- On a storefront window for a small business's community campaign. Neighborhood coffee shop raising for a broken heater — patrons scan while waiting for their latte.
What's on our printable poster
- A big, high-contrast QR code (large enough to scan from 6+ feet away)
- Your cause title in a readable serif
- Your location (optional — many recipients skip this for privacy)
- A shortened fallback URL underneath, in case scanning doesn't work
- The Dream Funnel wordmark so donors trust it's a real platform
Print it letter-size, cut it in half for pocket flyers, or scale it up to poster-board size at any print shop. The vector-quality QR won't blur.
Sign up, write two sentences, print the poster. Ninety seconds start to finish.