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Getting started

xengo turns links and QR codes into real-time events. This guide gets you from signup to your first alert in about five minutes.

1. Create your account

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Sign up at app.xengo.io. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial (card required, cancel anytime) — there is no free tier, by design. The first user in an account becomes its admin.

Section titled “2. Create your first link”

Links → New link. Paste a destination URL and you get a short link immediately — either an auto-generated 7-character code or a custom stub (go.example.com/spring24).

Every destination is safety-screened before the link goes live (malware and phishing reputation, plus daily re-scans) — this is why xengo links stay trusted by corporate mail filters.

3. Get the QR code

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Every link is a dynamic QR code: open the link and download its QR. The printed code encodes the short URL, so you can re-point the destination any time without reprinting — the core promise of dynamic QR. The QR Studio (Pro and above) adds brand styling: colours, corner shapes, your logo.

4. Wire up your first alert

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Notifications → Add channel. Pick where the ping should land — Slack, Teams, Telegram, email, a webhook, or any of 24 channels. Then open a link and select the channel in its Notifications section.

Click your link. The alert arrives in seconds. If you chose a webhook-class channel, the delivery is HMAC-signed — see Webhooks for verification (it’s optional; ignore the headers and everything still works).

5. Watch the analytics

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The Dashboard and Analytics pages show clicks and scans as they land: time series, device, browser, country and city, referrer, and the source of each event (direct click vs QR scan) — with bots filtered out of the headline numbers, so the counts are ones you can put in a report.

Where next

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