
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?
- Online retailers
- Marketing reps
- Sales reps
- Business owners
- Event organizers
- 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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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
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
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