diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html
index d6aec3d..5b929e1 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/resources/template.html
@@ -671,7 +671,10 @@
 
 </div>
   <div id="info-column">
-    $if(contact.qrcode)$
+    $if(contact.qrlink)$
+    ${ contact.qrlink }
+    <br/>
+    $elseif(contact.qrcode)$
     <img class="qrcode" src="$contact.qrcode$"/>
     <br/>
     $endif$
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
index 316b8e8..ef72d11 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_ids/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
     department: Digital Linguistics
     email: kupietz@ids-mannheim.de
     website: "https://www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/"
-    qrcode: "gerrit_qrcode.svg"
+    qrlink: >
+      `r posterdown::qrlink('https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/plugins/gitiles/IDS-Mannheim/posterdown')`
 column_numbers: 2
 # logoright_name: https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/brentthorne/posterdown/master/images/betterhexlogo.png
 logoleft_name: https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/brentthorne/posterdown/master/images/betterhexlogo.png
@@ -34,7 +35,6 @@
 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
 library(qrcode)
 knitr::opts_chunk$set(dev = 'svg', echo = FALSE)
-generate_svg(qr_code("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/plugins/gitiles/IDS-Mannheim/posterdown"), "gerrit_qrcode.svg")
 ```
 
 # Introduction