WhatsApp Link Generator

How to create a WhatsApp link

1. Pick the Country code of the number, or choose Already in the number (+…) if you type it in international format.
2. Type the WhatsApp number as you normally write it: spaces, dashes, dots and parentheses are fine. A number that starts with +, 00 (or 011 in North America) is treated as already international.
3. Optionally write a Prefilled message. It appears in the chat box when someone opens the link; they still have to press Send themselves.
4. Copy the WhatsApp link to paste into a social profile, an email, a text or a button on your website, or copy the HTML link to drop into a web page. Change the Link text to control the words people click.
5. Click Open the link to check it on your own phone or computer, and tick Show a QR code if you want a code for a flyer, a menu or a shop window. Download PNG gives a 1024-pixel image, Download SVG a vector file that stays sharp at any print size.

Load example fills in a sample restaurant booking and Clear empties the form. Everything is built in your browser: the number and the message are never sent anywhere.

How the wa.me link is built

WhatsApp’s official click-to-chat format is https://wa.me/<number>?text=<message>. The number must be in full international form (the E.164 standard) but written with digits only: no +, no spaces, no leading zeros. For a Montreal number, (514) 555-0123 becomes 15145550123; for a French mobile, 06 12 34 56 78 becomes 33612345678.

This tool does that conversion for you:

• It removes every character that is not a digit.
• It adds the country code you selected, unless the number already starts with + or an international prefix.
• For countries where national numbers begin with a trunk 0 (France, Belgium, Switzerland, the UK, Germany, Morocco and others in the list), that 0 is dropped after the country code, as international dialing requires. Italy and Côte d’Ivoire keep their leading 0, because it is part of the number there.
• For North America, an 11-digit number that already starts with 1 is not given a second 1.

The message is percent-encoded as UTF-8: spaces become %20, line breaks %0A, and accents, &, ? and emoji are encoded so they arrive exactly as typed. The Number used line under the outputs shows the final international number so you can double-check it.

Checks

The Checks list warns you when the number has no country code, when it has fewer than 7 digits or more than the 15 that E.164 allows, when letters were ignored (such as “ext. 4”: extensions do not exist on WhatsApp), and when the link passes 2,000 characters, a length some apps may cut.

If you leave the number empty and write only a message, the link becomes https://wa.me/?text=…. Opening it lets the sender choose any contact or group to share the message with, which is handy for “share this with a friend” buttons.