QR Codes for Ganpati Mandals & Pandal Committees

A pandal or mandal committee's entrance banner, pass, or noticeboard usually goes up once for all 10 days of Ganeshotsav. A SMLLR dynamic QR code on that same printed material can point at the daily aarti and prasad schedule for days 1 through 9, then automatically switch to the visarjan-day route and timing on day 10, using Scheduled Redirects. A separate scan-limit rule can manage token or queue caps without a volunteer standing at the gate counting heads, and scan analytics give a rough, comparable footfall signal across all 10 days. This is part of the broader Ganpati festival QR code guide — this piece goes deeper into the committee-specific pieces.

Scheduled Redirects (Pro plan and above, ₹4,999/month) let a committee queue up different destinations for different date ranges ahead of the festival — before September 14, not during it. A practical setup: point the entrance banner's QR code at the daily aarti-and-prasad-timing page for September 14 through 24, then have it switch automatically to a visarjan-day page (immersion route, timing, traffic advisory) for September 25. Once it's configured, nobody on the committee needs to remember to change anything on the day itself.

The Landing Page Builder (Pro and above) creates a no-code hosted page tied to the QR code — a straightforward place to list aarti timings, prasad distribution windows, and the day's cultural programme. If a timing shifts, a committee member edits the same page directly; the printed banner's QR code still points at the same URL, so nothing needs reprinting for a schedule change mid-festival.

A scan-limit redirect rule (Basic plan and above, ₹1,999/month) sends the first set number of scanners to one destination and everyone after that to a different one — the same mechanic used by D2C brands to switch a launch-promo QR to a regular product page once a scan cap is hit. Applied to a pandal, the same rule can route the first N scans of a prasad-token or darshan-pass QR code to a valid-token confirmation page, and everyone after that threshold to a "today's tokens are over — please come back tomorrow" page. The rule itself doesn't reset automatically each day; a committee member (or a volunteer notified via the alert below) resets the count each morning if a fresh daily cap is wanted.

Real-Time Scan Analytics and Geo Heatmaps (Pro and above) show scan counts broken down by time, device, and city. This is not a headcount of every visitor — most people who pass a pandal never scan anything — but it's a consistent, comparable signal across all 10 days: which day drew the most scans, which hour of the evening aarti gets the most engagement, roughly where visitors are coming from. Treat it as a proxy, not an attendance figure.

The Lead Hub, fed by a Lead Capture Gate on a QR code or a form on the landing page (both Pro and above), captures donor or volunteer contact details from people who choose to leave them, with a consent record and attribution trail rather than an open sign-up sheet. Email Marketing (Pro and above) then lets the committee send a post-visarjan thank-you note or next year's update from its own verified sending domain to whoever specifically consented — see the full email marketing guide for how sending domains and consent work together.

A pandal committee is rarely run by one person alone. Team Collaboration (Pro and above) gives multiple volunteers role-based access — Admin, Editor, or Viewer — to the same SMLLR account, with activity logs, so the schedule page and redirect rules aren't a single point of failure resting on whichever volunteer happens to be tech-comfortable.

The Custom QR Design Studio, available on every plan, lets a committee set the QR code's colours (saffron and orange are common choices for the festival), add the mandal's own logo, and pick a frame style, so the code matches the banner or standee it sits on rather than looking like a generic black-and-white square. See the full QR design guide for what's customizable.

SMLLR doesn't process donations or payments. If the committee is collecting donations via UPI, that stays on the existing bank, PhonePe Business, or BHIM QR code — a SMLLR QR code is meant to sit alongside it for schedules and information, not replace it. There's also no WhatsApp broadcast automation; the only WhatsApp option is a click-to-chat CTA button on a QR code, useful for a volunteer coordination number but not for mass messaging donors.