WhatsApp Link Generator
Create a wa.me link that opens a chat with your number, with the first message already written. Get a matching QR code for print. Free, no account needed.
Include the country code. Spaces, dashes and the plus sign are stripped automatically, so paste it however you have it saved.
This text is waiting in the chat box when someone opens the link. They can still edit it before sending.
Your WhatsApp link
Enter a number with its country code to generate the link.
Your WhatsApp QR code appears here once the number is valid.
Generated in your browser. Nothing you type here is sent to QRLinkify.
What a wa.me link does
A WhatsApp link opens a chat with a specific number without the other person having to save it as a contact first. That sounds small, and it removes the single biggest drop-off in getting someone to message a business: the four-step detour of copying a number, opening contacts, saving it, then opening WhatsApp.
The link format is wa.me followed by the number in full international form. You can also attach a message that is already typed into the chat box when it opens, which the sender can edit or send as-is.
A pre-filled message is more useful than it looks. “Hi, I’d like to book a table for Saturday” gives a hesitant customer the first sentence for free, and it tells you which poster or page they came from if you vary the wording per placement.
The number format is where these usually break
WhatsApp links fail for one reason more than any other: the number is written the way people write phone numbers rather than the way wa.me expects. No plus sign, no spaces, no dashes, no brackets, no leading zero.
A UK number written 07700 900123 has to become 447700900123. A Pakistani number written 0300 1234567 becomes 923001234567. The leading zero is a domestic dialling convention and it is dropped in the international form — leaving it in produces a link that opens WhatsApp and then says the number is invalid.
The form above strips the formatting for you, so paste the number however you have it saved. Just make sure the country code is on the front, because that part cannot be guessed.
Where to put the link once you have it
The strongest placements are the ones where typing is painful. An Instagram or TikTok bio, where a phone number is unclickable. A “message us” button on a website. An email signature. A WhatsApp QR code on a menu, a shop window or a delivery box, which is why this tool generates the code alongside the link.
For anything printed, generate the QR code here and print that rather than the raw URL. Nobody types a wa.me link off a poster.
One thing this tool cannot do is tell you how many people used the link, because wa.me is WhatsApp’s domain and not yours. Running it through a QRLinkify short link first gives you scan and click counts by country, city and device, and lets you change the destination number later without reprinting anything. That is the difference between knowing the poster worked and assuming it did.