SQR QR Generator - Dynamic Short links and QR codes Reviews

I purchased SQR QR Generator – Dynamic Short Links and QR Codes as a lifetime deal on AppSumo. At first, it worked well — clean interface, useful features.

Then came emails asking me to buy new paid plans to continue using the service, despite my LTD purchase. Not long after, the business shut down entirely. Now all the QR codes and short links I created are useless, and there’s no support or refund option.

This feels like a classic bait-and-switch followed by a total shutdown. If you value reliability and honoring commitments, avoid tools that can pull the plug on you like this.

SSL certificate expired for the custom domains leaving a bunch hanging. Glad I used custom domains so I can buy the code he used to build this site from codecanyon (Altum code is the seller) and host my own.

For the first year after buying this, it was non stop emails about helping support and switching over to his "AgencyQR" site which was just another Altum code based website with more features.

A let down for sure

Abandoned project. Whether you paid more $$$ or not, they add custom domains manually, and with nobody managing the product, you are dead in the water.

Unsupported project. Wasted money. And now I have tons of QR codes and links to move from this garbage fire, to something that will actually work and not be abandoned after a cash grab.

We were SQR.CO entusiast. We offered to our loyal customers shorturl services (using opensource software and other platforms) and when we found SQR services (with a good interface and a lot of collateral options) we were very happy and expanded the offer buying the LTD. After 2 years they request money or their services would be stopped. Then they said that this was only our choice, no need to pay if we don't want. But we understand that he needs help so we offered to pay, at the start of 2025 an entire year of support anticipated. So at the end of 2024 we checked the situation and see that a lot of collateral (and unused by us) services are gone.

Then we wrote to sqr. No anwser. We found two emails. No anwser. We started to search for more information. We received a request of money (on 1st January 2025) that we refused to pay: no anwsers, no money. On web all is based on trust.

Now we discovered something frightening that goes beyond our imagination and we are moving to lawyers (also checking in Austin/TX, headquarters of Appsumo) to understand if there is something else behind that.

SQR.CO staff (Dave? From holland? It's real?) isn't answering to our questions for a while. We read about companies that saw their services gone (with ssl expiration, service stopped and no support at all also for thousand of users impacted).

The site is up but without any info about the status of the company. Privacy and About pages are unavailable and also server status pages. The official site (affordable.software) is closed.

But now comes the surprise:
searching for other contacts we found in web.archive.org i find the original page about privacy and got this on company information:

"The person responsible for the treatment of this site is W3 Business STQ 2017 SLU (hereinafter Square QR or the Service), with address at Paseo Serra d 'Espadá, 46120, Alboray, Spain.
Email: dave@sqr.co"

And then the surprise! That responsible of data management "W3 Business STQ 2017 SLU" is related to scam crimes (made with QR software). You can check in a dedicated site:
https://qrscam.com/

So now the request is if this is not a simple case of a defunct company.

Appsumo (directly or indirectly?) helped them and exposed their customers to a potential crime in a way that is incredible for us. They know that?

We are contacting lawyers in Austin, Texas to move on fraud basis and it's clear that's not something (any help in a crime) that could be managed with simple "terms" on site. We won't ever know them without your site.

If they are unaware of the actions of sqr.co admins, we think a total refund is due to demonstrate they are totally disconnected from them.

The anwser we received from Appsumo (Dylan Lochhead) after we put the same text you see above, is probably a cut 'n paste text by someone that doesn't know anything. They anwsered like September 2024: "Sqr offer a new support, you can also deny the offer. This is the email of dave (daveheere@gmail.com) and check with him to resolve".

Ok Dave doesn't anwser. What's next.
Hope local police can help us.

Dave up and left us all high and dry. Certs are invalid and expired. It has ruined the platform and affected businesses negatively far and wide. Absolutely shameful.