How to Create a WhatsApp Link to Start Chat

Here is how to create a WhatsApp link to start chat.

 

Purpose of WhatsApp Link to Start Chat

Let clients and customers start a chat with you through WhatsApp.

You can create a link anywhere on your website, email or app which will open a new WhatsApp chat to a specific number.

The link will open a chat with the number you specified and can include a default message as well. The user clicking the link doesn’t have to have you saved in their contacts list and doesn’t have to do anything else. They just click the link and start chatting with you.

Who Can Use This Link?

  1. Online retailers
  2. Marketing reps
  3. Sales reps
  4. Business owners
  5. Event organizers
  6. And many more…

How to Create the WhatsApp Link to Start Chat

To create the WhatsApp chat link, you need a specific URL.

The URL starts with https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone= followed by your phone number in international format. Make sure that you don’t include any other characters in the phone number, only numeric/integer values. Here is an example:

My Phone Number: 076 848 3016
My Country Code: +27

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=27768483016

Using a Default Message

You can specify a default message that should initially be sent by the person clicking the link to start the chat.

To do that, add text= to the URL with a urlencoded value. Here is an example:

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=27768483016&text=I%20want%20to%20find%20out%20about%20your%20products

To urlencode a string of text, go to urlencoder.org for free encoding and decoding.

WhatsApp Chat Button

To create a chat button, you can use the same URL instructions as above and apply it to a custom styled button or search the web for WhatsApp chat button images and use an image design available and apply the URL to it.

Here is an example of a button you can use on your website or in your app:

You can download the full resolution image here.

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Comments
  1. Rajendra on March 16, 2024

    Thank you for providing such an informative and well-structured blog post. The content was easy to follow, and I appreciated the additional resources you shared.

    Reply
  2. vivek singh on April 20, 2023

    How can I use WhatsApp newsletter in my blog?

    Reply
  3. Regina on September 2, 2020

    How can I add a WhatsApp group chat link in my blog

    Reply
  4. ravi on May 7, 2020

    thank you so much

    Reply
  5. Cesar on April 20, 2020

    Hi we have created a free too to generate your link to WhatsApp
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  6. Sanju Rauth on March 8, 2020

    It is very simple way for chatting in WhatsApp…thanks for this amazing tricks

    Reply
  7. G.L.Gurjar on January 10, 2020

    Wow really good information sir
    Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  8. charlie welson on December 30, 2019

    Thanks for sharing this important info and helping me indirectly with my project.
    keep sharing…

    Reply
  9. Arion on November 13, 2019

    Hi Andrea. I’m working on a similar project. Could you make progress? Let me know, maybe we can contribute on each others project …
    Best

    Reply
  10. Thanks for sharing this important info and helping me indirectly with my project.
    keep sharing…

    Reply
  11. Minilavoro online on April 8, 2019

    Hi,
    I was googling for whatsap chat to set on my site and landing pages and got here to your page.
    I found your suggestion on the click to chat very useful.
    The example shown in this article simplified my activity and gave me some ideas.
    Also appreciated the image download
    Thanks a lot

    Reply
  12. Andrea on February 12, 2019

    Hallo how are you? I need to add to my wordpress website a whatsapp button for every single product. Basically i have a website for man and woman dates and i want every man to be able to contact the girl via whatsapp
    I get lost in this step because i don’t know what you mean and how to do it:
    WhatsApp Chat Button
    To create a chat button, you can use the same URL instructions as above and apply it to a custom styled button or search the web for WhatsApp chat button images and use an image design available and apply the URL to it.

    Please can you help me on this? thanx

    Reply
  13. Mr Manish on December 19, 2018

    How can i use whatsapp newsletter in my blog

    Reply

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