Whatsapp QR Code Generator

What this tool does

This tool makes a QR code that opens a WhatsApp chat with you when scanned. Point a phone at it and a conversation addressed to your number is ready to go, no saving a contact or copying digits first. Enter your number, set the size and colours, and download a PNG or SVG.

How to use it

1. Enter your WhatsApp number with the country code (more on getting this right below).
2. Set the size and colours if you want.
3. Choose PNG or SVG, create the code, and download it.

How it works

The tool encodes a WhatsApp click-to-chat link for your number into the QR pattern, in your browser. When someone scans it, WhatsApp opens with a new chat already addressed to you, and they type their message and send. The code is static and works on its own, with nothing uploaded. Since it opens the chat in WhatsApp, the person needs WhatsApp on their phone, which, for most of the world, they have.

A serious business channel

This is where a WhatsApp code really earns its place, because in much of the world WhatsApp is not a side channel, it is the main way people and businesses talk. A "Message us on WhatsApp" code on a shop door, a menu, product packaging, a receipt, a flyer, or an ad turns a passing moment of interest into an actual conversation: a question about stock, a booking, an order, a support request. It works because it meets people where they already are. Messaging feels lighter than a phone call and more immediate than email, the chat sits in their list so you can follow up, and there is no form to fill in or contact to save. For a small shop or a service business, it can quietly become the front door for enquiries. One honest point: the code opens an empty chat addressed to you, the person writes their own message, so a short prompt nearby ("Scan to ask us anything") helps them start.

Getting the number right

This is the one detail that decides whether the code works at all, so it is worth a moment. Enter your number in full international format with the country code, and ideally as digits only, with no spaces, brackets, dashes, or other punctuation. So a UK mobile would go in as 447911123456 rather than 07911 123456, and a US number as 15551234567. A number without its country code, or cluttered with formatting, can fail to open a chat, because the link needs a clean international number to find the right account. Get those digits right and test it once, and it will work for anyone who scans. For a plain text message instead of WhatsApp, the SMS QR Code Generator covers that, and for a voice call the Phone QR Code Generator sets one up.

Questions people ask