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title: "How to add a Back to menu button to your QR code pages"
description: "Give any page in your QR code journey a Back button, or connect a button back to your menu, so visitors can browse several pages from one QR code and return to the menu each time."
canonical: "https://linkbreakers.com/help/article/how-to-add-a-back-to-menu-button"
last-updated: 2026-10-15
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# How to add a Back to menu button to your QR code pages

> Give any page in your QR code journey a Back button, or connect a button back to your menu, so visitors can browse several pages from one QR code and return to the menu each time.

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## Short answer

There are two ways. The quickest: select the page step on the canvas, open **Advanced** in its side panel and turn on **Back button**, then give it a label such as "Back to menu". It works like the browser's back button and returns visitors to the page they came from, so you do not have to wire anything. It exists on every page step: message pages, menus (multi-link pages), forms, contact cards, social links pages, password pages and thank you pages.

The other way is to connect a step's button back to an earlier step. On the canvas, drag the connection from your page to the multi-link page (the menu) that led to it. The canvas draws this connection as a return curve.

## Quick summary

- **Advanced** > **Back button** adds a secondary button with your own label that returns to the previous page, like the browser's back button
- It stays hidden when there is no previous page, such as right after a scan
- A step's button can also be connected to an earlier step, not only to the next one
- If a button is not connected to anything, visitors are sent to the link's [fallback destination](/help/article/what-is-a-fallback-destination-in-linkbreakers)
- To offer documents such as PDFs, use a [multi-link page](/help/article/what-is-a-multi-link-page) whose buttons lead to [File steps](/help/article/how-to-share-a-file-from-a-qr-code) for uploaded files, or to redirect steps for files hosted elsewhere

## The back button option

Select the step on the canvas, open the **Advanced** section at the bottom of its side panel, turn on **Back button** and type its label ("Back" if you leave it empty). When the section is closed, a **Back button** tag in its header shows the option is on.

Visitors see the button under the page's main buttons, outlined in your page theme's button colour so it reads as the secondary choice. Tapping it goes back one page in their browser, to wherever they came from: usually your menu.

It only appears when there is a page to go back to. A visitor who lands on the page straight from a scan does not see it, because going back would leave your pages.

Use the back button when "go back to where I was" is all you need. Connect a button to the menu instead when the page should always lead to the menu, whichever way the visitor arrived, or when you want the click recorded as a step in the journey.

## How connections work

Every button in a workflow goes to the step it is connected to on the canvas. Most connections point forward, to the next step in the journey. A connection can also point back to an earlier step. When a visitor taps that button, they return to the earlier step, for example the menu.

This turns a straight-line journey into a small site behind one QR code:

| Step | Role |
|---|---|
| Multi-link page | The menu, with one button per section, or a sub-menu listing documents |
| File | Opens a PDF, image or video uploaded to your media library |
| Redirect | Opens a web page, or a document hosted elsewhere such as a Google Drive link |
| Message page | A short message, such as an announcement |
| Contact card | A person's details |

## Step-by-step

1. Open the link's workflow in the dashboard
2. Add a multi-link page as the menu, with one button per section
3. Connect each menu button to the page for that section: a message page, another multi-link page, a contact card
4. For each of those pages, open **Advanced** in the side panel, turn on **Back button** and label it "Back to menu"
5. Scan the QR code and tap through each page to check that every "Back to menu" button returns to the menu

## Worked example: a home builder's sales menu

A home builder puts one QR code on a yard sign. Scanning it opens a menu:

- **Multi-link menu** with three buttons: "Available homes", "Current incentives" and "Contact us"
- **"Available homes"** opens a second multi-link page with one button per floor plan. Each button leads to a File step that opens the floor plan PDF. A **Back button** labelled "Back to menu" returns to the menu
- **"Current incentives"** opens a multi-link page with a button that leads to a File step holding this week's incentives PDF, and a "Back to menu" back button
- **"Contact us"** opens a multi-link page listing the team members. Each team member's button leads to their own [contact card](/help/article/how-to-create-contact-cards-vcard-in-linkbreakers), and each contact card has a "Back" back button

When the incentives change, the builder uploads the new PDF in that File step. The QR code on the sign stays the same.

## Frequently asked questions

### Why does my "Back to menu" button open my Google Drive?

The button is not connected to anything. A button that is not connected sends visitors to the link's fallback destination, and in this case the fallback was a Google Drive folder. Either turn on **Advanced** > **Back button** on that page, or drag the connection from the page to the menu step on the canvas.

### Which pages can have a back button?

Every step that shows a page: message pages, multi-link pages, forms, contact cards, social links pages, password pages and thank you pages. Redirects and conditions never show a page, so they have none.

### Why don't I see the back button when I scan?

The page you landed on is the first page of the journey, so there is nothing to go back to. Tap through to the page from your menu and it appears.

### How do I know a connection goes back to the menu?

The canvas draws a connection to an earlier step as a return curve between the two steps.

### Can I share PDFs from the pages behind the menu?

Yes. Use a multi-link page with one button per document, and connect each button to its own [File step](/help/article/how-to-share-a-file-from-a-qr-code) holding the PDF from your media library. For a PDF hosted on Google Drive, Dropbox or a similar service, connect the button to a redirect step whose destination is its share link instead.

### Do I need a separate QR code for each page?

No. One QR code opens the menu, and visitors move between the menu and its pages from there.

## Limits and caveats

- The back button follows the visitor's browser history, so it returns to the page they actually came from
- A button only returns to the menu through a connection if it is connected to the menu on the canvas. Unconnected buttons send visitors to the link's fallback destination
- Back button labels are limited to 40 characters
- Test every path after editing the workflow, especially after adding or removing steps