Day-of-Week QR Redirects: Automate Weekend Offers Without Touching Your Campaign
A day of week qr redirect guide — automating a weekend-only or weekday-only offer using the same scheduled redirect rules behind time-based switching, and how to combine specific days with specific hours accurately.
The Weekend-Offer Problem
A "weekends only" promotion managed manually needs someone to switch the destination on Friday night and switch it back on Sunday night, every single week the offer runs — a small task that's easy to forget at least once, usually right when it matters. A printed code shouldn't need a standing weekly reminder just to behave correctly.
How Day-of-Week Scheduling Actually Works
This runs on the same scheduled redirect rules (Pro plan, ₹4,999/month) behind time-based switching, covered in our time-based QR code guide — the same rule type carries a list of applicable days alongside its time window. Select Saturday and Sunday for a weekend-only rule, or any other combination of days for a weekday-specific offer, and the rule only applies on the days you've chosen; outside both the days and hours you've set, the code falls back to its default destination.
Setting Up a Weekend-Only Offer
For a straightforward weekend offer running the same hours both days, select Saturday and Sunday on one rule, set the time window to match your actual weekend hours, and point it at the weekend offer page. Outside that rule, the code's default destination handles weekdays.
Combining Day and Time Accurately
One nuance worth getting right: each rule applies one time window to its selected days — it doesn't span across midnight within a single rule. If your "weekend" really means Friday evening through Sunday night with different hours on different days, that's genuinely three separate rules (a Friday-evening rule, a Saturday all-day rule, a Sunday-until-night rule) rather than one rule stretched across them. It's a small amount of extra setup, worth doing correctly rather than assuming a single rule covers an irregular, multi-day span.
Common Use Cases Beyond Weekend Sales
The same mechanism fits several real patterns:
- **Weekday-only business lunch menus**, switching back to a standard menu on weekends when the lunch crowd looks different.
- **A specific day's promotion** — a "Monday special" that only applies on Mondays without needing a manual switch every week.
- **College or campus-adjacent offers** timed to class days specifically, reverting automatically on weekends and holidays.
A Quick Setup Checklist
Decide exactly which days and hours the offer should actually run before creating the rule, confirm the timezone is correct, and test by checking the code's behaviour on both an included day and an excluded day rather than assuming the day selection worked as intended. If your schedule spans differing hours across days, set up each day as its own rule rather than trying to force one rule to cover all of them.
Create your QR code on SMLLR, set your day-of-week rule once, and let the calendar manage the weekly switch from here on.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What plan do I need for day-of-week QR redirects?
This runs on scheduled redirect rules, available from the Pro plan (₹4,999/month) — the same feature behind time-based switching.
Can one rule cover a weekend offer that runs different hours on Friday night versus Saturday and Sunday?
Not as a single rule — each rule applies one time window to its selected days without spanning across midnight. An irregular multi-day span like that needs one rule per day with its own hours, rather than one rule stretched across all of them.
What happens on days not included in a day-of-week rule?
The code falls back to its default destination, so set that deliberately rather than leaving it pointed at whatever was configured first.
Can I set up a QR code that only works on weekdays?
Yes — select the specific weekdays you want the rule to apply to; it works the same way as selecting weekend days, just with a different day combination.
Does day-of-week scheduling require a separate feature from time-based scheduling?
No — both run on the same scheduled redirect rule type. A single rule carries both a day selection and a time window together.
How should I test a day-of-week QR code before relying on it?
Check the code's behaviour on both a day it should apply to and a day it shouldn't, rather than assuming the day selection is working correctly from the dashboard alone.