Compatibility issue between simplesoftwareio/simple-qrcode and Laravel Fortify on Laravel 12 (bacon/bacon-qr-code version conflict)

[ravi-374]

Hi 👋

I’m running into a dependency conflict when trying to use simplesoftwareio/simple-qrcode alongside Laravel Fortify on Laravel 12.

Laravel Fortify (v1.34+) depends on:
bacon/bacon-qr-code ^3.0

However, the latest stable version of simplesoftwareio/simple-qrcode requires:
bacon/bacon-qr-code ^2.0

This creates an unresolvable conflict when installing both packages together.

Conflict Details:

• laravel/framework: ^12.0
• laravel/fortify: ^1.34

requires bacon/bacon-qr-code ^3.0

• simplesoftwareio/simple-qrcode: ^4.2

requires bacon/bacon-qr-code ^2.0

Composer error (simplified):

You can only install one version of a package, so only one of these can be installed:
- bacon/bacon-qr-code ^2.0
- bacon/bacon-qr-code ^3.0

Because Laravel 12 + Fortify requires bacon/bacon-qr-code ^3, it’s currently impossible to use simple-qrcode in this setup.

Expected Behavior:

It should be possible to use simplesoftwareio/simple-qrcode with:

• Laravel 12
• Laravel Fortify
• bacon/bacon-qr-code ^3.0

Suggested Solutions:

One of the following would resolve the issue:

1. Release a new version of simplesoftwareio/simple-qrcode that supports bacon/bacon-qr-code ^3.0, or
2. Provide guidance or an alternative approach for using simple-qrcode alongside Laravel Fortify on Laravel 12.

Thanks for your work on this package 🙏
Please let me know if I can help test or provide additional details.

[khaled-sadek]

The package is not up to date, I don't know why I used this package for years, but needed faster fixes for my SaaS. I decided to maintain a compatible fork here that keeps the same API but adds Laravel 11 &12 support beside support till php8.5 and clean all messy bugs raised here

Edit 19th Mar 2026:
It supports Laravel 13 too. And has a blade component to render the qr code.

[tuncaybahadir]

@ravi-374 You can also try the following package for Laravel versions 10, 11, 12, and PHP versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5. Competition is good :)

https://packagist.org/packages/tuncaybahadir/quar

[ultrono]

I made a fork: https://github.com/f9webltd/simple-qrcode

Supports version 3 of bacon/bacon-qr-code and Laravel 13.