I am beginning to research it may cost to maintain this system, and have thus began my research looking at how much QR codes cost to produce, and how much it would be to host the information on a website.
‘Scanlife’ by Scanbuy offer a service for small business’ that is priced at $49 a month. This service allows the user to have ‘5 codes, 2,500 scans / year’ as well as ‘2 Mobile Sites / 20 Templates’. Although this is a good start, with the amount of QR codes that will need to be placed on film posters alone I will need much more than 5 codes.
The website also offers an ‘enterprise’ package, allowing ’10+ codes’ but it doesn’t disclose how much it is unfortunately.
When it comes to creating the 2d QR codes, there are lots of free services, as well as lots of free apps that can read the QR codes. This means that to do it yourself it could potentially be on the very cheap – however this doesn’t take into account the cost of referring the code to a website, and thus the website will cost money to run.
According to ‘Executionists’:
- Domain Name – $10/year
- Hosting – $10 to $100 a year (depending on traffic and hosting services)
- Web Planning, Design and Development Time – 60 hours and up
- Continued Website Maintenance – $500 a year and up (depending on number/type of updates required)
- Marketing Your Website Online – $750 a month and up
This shows that the majority of the budget may be spent on maintaining the website that the QR code redirects the user to.
References:
Parr, R. (2014) How much does it cost to build A Website in 2014?. Available at: http://www.executionists.com/blog/cost-to-build-websites-2014/ (Accessed: 22 February 2016).