From your website
A visitor is on your pricing page with a question they won't fill a form for. A chat button takes them straight into WhatsApp with the product already named in the first line.
Click-to-chat & QR
WhatsApp click-to-chat links and QR codes
Turn your number into a link people can tap — with the opening message already written. Put it on your site, your bio, an ad or a printed card, and the conversation starts in your WhatsApp Web, where the rest of Wanova is waiting.
Free on every plan · QR drawn on your machine · no contact saved on either side
The moment
The hardest part of WhatsApp sales is the first message
Not the pitch — the friction before it. Someone has to copy a number, save it as a contact, open WhatsApp, find it, and think of an opening line. Most people don't. A link removes all five steps.
From something printed
A QR on a business card, a shop window, a trade-show banner, the last slide of a deck. They scan, the chat opens, and you get a real conversation instead of a photographed card that never gets typed in.
To someone you don't want to save
A one-off supplier, a delivery, a lead from a listing. You need one conversation, not a permanent contact in your phone. Open the chat from the number and leave your address book alone.
How it works
A link, a QR, and a first line that does some work
It's built into the Wanova panel in WhatsApp Web — type the number, type the message, take the link. Nothing to configure and nothing to sign up for beyond the extension itself.
Build the link
Enter a number in any format — spaces, dashes, brackets, a leading zero or a +. Wanova normalises it to the international form wa.me expects, so a link you paste into an ad doesn't quietly point at the wrong country.
Get the QR locally
The same link as a QR code, drawn by the extension on your own machine. No upload to a QR site, no redirect owned by someone else, nothing that can expire or start counting your scans. Save it and print it.
Prefill the opening line
Write what you want them to arrive with — "Hi, I'd like the 500-unit price". Use a different line per channel and the first message tells you where the lead came from, before you've asked a single question.
Link and QR building are entirely local: they're string and image work done in your browser, with no server involved and nothing recorded about who scans what. Wanova can't count your scans — which also means nobody else can.
While you're here
The link is the easy half
Getting people to write to you is one afternoon's work. Answering all of them, in their language, without losing the ones who go quiet — that's the part Wanova is actually built for.
Hi — what's your MOQ?
Keyword reply
Our minimum is 200 units — here's the price list.
The first reply can be instant
The questions that arrive through a click-to-chat link are the same five every time: price, minimum order, shipping, lead time, are you real. Keyword rules answer those the second they land — locally, no AI needed, on every plan.
See keyword auto-replies →Needs you 3
AKAhmed K.4d silent
MRMaria R.2h waiting
CWChen W.promised
And nobody falls through the floor
New leads from a link are exactly the ones that get forgotten — no history, no reminder, no CRM entry. Wanova works out who's still waiting and what you promised, from the chats themselves, on your machine.
See follow-up radar →
Plans
Links and QR codes are free, on every plan
One price per account — not per person and not per number. Every plan covers several WhatsApp numbers and as many teammates as share them. The AI co-pilot starts on Professional.
Starter$14.99/moup to 3 numbers · every local tool · 3,000 AI credits
Professional$24.99/moup to 10 numbers · AI co-pilot · 5,000 AI credits
Expert$34.99/mounlimited numbers · 7,000 AI credits · webhooks
Link and QR generation runs entirely on your machine · See full pricing
FAQ
Questions, answered
What is a WhatsApp click-to-chat link?
It's a plain web link in the form wa.me/<number> that opens a WhatsApp conversation with that number. Add ?text= and the first message is already typed when the chat opens, so the person only has to press send. It works from a website, an Instagram bio, an email signature, an ad, or a QR code on a printed menu — anywhere someone can tap.
Does the other person need to save my number first?
No. That's the entire point: the link opens the conversation directly, with no contact saved on either side. Wanova can also start a chat with a number you haven't saved, from inside WhatsApp Web — the same idea in the other direction.
Is the QR code generated online?
No. The QR is drawn on your own machine by the extension — no upload, no third-party generator, no tracking pixel baked into the image. Most free QR sites route the code through a redirect they own, which means they can count your scans and can break your code later. Yours is a plain image of a plain wa.me link.
Can I prefill what the person says to me?
Yes, and you usually should. A link that opens with “Hi — I'm interested in the 500-unit price” already tells you why they're writing, so your first reply can be useful instead of “how can I help?”. Use different prefilled text per channel and the first message tells you where the lead came from.
Does it work with a WhatsApp Business account?
Yes. A click-to-chat link is just a link to a phone number — it doesn't care whether that number is on WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business, or the Business API. If the number can receive messages, the link works.
Is it free?
Yes. Link and QR generation is in every plan, including the 7-day trial. It runs locally and costs us nothing to serve, so there's no reason to charge for it.
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