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Creating a Collection is a single click. There is no multi-field setup form: you answer one question about what scanning an Item should do, the Collection is created immediately, and everything else is editable afterward from its settings. Open the Collections list and choose Create, or use the + button beside the Collections list in the sidebar.

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The two choices on the creation screen

Both cards create the Collection straight away and drop you into its (empty) Item grid. Under the cards, the same screen offers a short strip of starter templates plus Browse all. Picking a template replaces this choice — the template carries its own scan behavior, field schema and page design. See Starter Templates. Neither choice is permanent. You can flip a Collection between the two later from its settings; see Scan Behavior for New Items.

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The name you get

The new Collection is named sequentially — one past the highest numbered default the team already has, so deleting one in the middle never produces a name collision (Collection 1, 2, 3 → delete 2 → the next one is 4). One wrinkle worth knowing: Collections were renamed from “Tubs”, and the name generator still uses the old word, so the name you actually see is Tub4, not Collection4. Rename it inline from the grid header or from Settings → General — nothing is derived from the name, so renaming is free at any time.

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What a fresh Collection starts with

  • Four fields — name, Item ID, description and tags. Everything else you add yourself.
  • Random link generation — a fresh qrtub.com/r/x5fgd-style Link is minted and attached automatically each time you add an Item. Change this in Settings → Link generation.
  • No page template of its own. A Collection created from one of the two cards has no stored page design. Until you build one in the Page Editor, Items in Page Mode render a built-in default page — the Item’s name, image, status and tags, plus the Collection’s own name, description and image. Collections created from a starter template do get a real page template, generated from that template’s fields.
  • No sample Items. Only starter templates seed example data.
Collections that predate the link-generation setting behave differently: their default is to mint no Link at all. Only Collections created through the current flow start on random.

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If you only want to print codes

If you have nothing to catalog yet and just need codes on physical items, you do not need a Collection first. The creation screen has a Start with physical codes link that takes you to Links instead, where you can generate and print Links now and attach them to Items whenever the Items exist. A Link can live on a QR code, an NFC tag or a plain short URL.