WhatsApp link generator
One tap opens a chat with you, with the first message already written.
A WhatsApp link opens a chat with your number, with your first message already typed. Put the number and the message in below and you get a wa.me address and a QR code for it. Put either on a card, a poster or a website.
Make your chat link
Pick the country, type the mobile number, and add the message you want waiting in the box.
Leave the message empty and the link simply opens a chat with an empty box, which is sometimes the friendlier thing to do.
Type a mobile number and the link appears here.
Nothing is messaged when you make a link, and nothing you type is sent to us.
How to make a WhatsApp link
Pick the country and type the number
Choose the dialling code, then the mobile number without its leading zero. Paste a full international number and the country is picked up for you.
Write the first message
This is the sentence sitting in the box when the chat opens. Write it as the person messaging you, not as yourself.
Take the link or the code
Copy the address for a website or a bio, or download the QR code for a printed card, a window or a poster.
What the link can and cannot do
The address is the one WhatsApp publishes: wa.me followed by your number in full international form, with the message added as text. It opens the app on a phone and the web version on a computer.
It has to be a mobile number that WhatsApp itself is running on. A landline is refused here rather than turned into a link that opens a chat with nobody.
Nobody is messaged when you make a link. The message is only ever sitting in the other person's box, and they send it or they do not.
Questions about WhatsApp links
Do I need WhatsApp Business?
No. The link works with an ordinary account. What it needs is the number the app is actually running on.
Why was my number refused?
Either it is a landline, which WhatsApp does not run on, or the digits do not match any real numbering plan for that country. Check the country and the digits.
Can I change the message later?
Only by making a new link. The message is written into the address, so a printed code carries the message that was in it when you printed it.
Is my number stored?
No. The link and the code are made in your own browser. Nothing you type is sent to us and nothing is kept.
Should I put this on a printed card?
You can, but a card with your own page behind it is safer: the page carries the chat button and everything else, and you can change the number behind it without reprinting.
Beyond one chat button
A chat link is one door. A card is all of them in one address.
WhatsApp business card
Your card and your chat button in one place, so a new contact can write to you at once.
WhatsApp business card→QR code generator
A link or a line of text in, a square code out, as a PNG or an SVG.
QR code generator→Digital business cards
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Digital business cards→Design a card free
Pick a template, type your details and download a print-ready file. No account, no watermark.
Design a card free→Put every way of reaching you in one place
A card of your own carries the chat button, your number, your email and your links, and a code that opens the lot.