Quickstart

This guide takes you from nothing to a link that opens a WhatsApp chat with you, carries your own address and counts every click. You need your WhatsApp number or username.

Make a free link

A free link is the fastest way to see how a wa.link works. It needs no account.

1. Go to walink.com. The Create your WhatsApp link form is at the top of the page.
2. Under WhatsApp account, choose Phone number or Username and enter yours.
3. Optionally, write a Pre-filled message: the text the visitor sends you when the chat opens.
4. Select Generate my free wa.link.
5. Select Try it to open the chat, Copy link to share it, or Download PNG to save its QR code.

A free link gets a random address, can't be edited later and shows no analytics. Free links explains what you can do with one, including saving it to an account.

Sign in to the app

Walink's dashboard is at app.walink.com. There's no password and no separate sign-up: your account is created the first time you sign in.

1. Go to app.walink.com.
2. Enter your Email address and select Continue with email, or select Continue with Google.
3. With email, type the 6-digit code Walink sends you and select Sign in. The code expires after 5 minutes.

Create a Premium Link

1. Open Links, select New link, then Premium link.
2. In Custom Link, type your address, for example tiendaluna for wa.link/tiendaluna. Use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. The field tells you whether it's available.
3. Optionally, give it a Link Name. Only you see it.
4. In Destination Settings, keep Link Type on Chat and enter your WhatsApp account: a phone number or a username.
5. Write the Pre-filled Message.
6. Select Create link and review the summary.

Another Link Type opens your WhatsApp Business catalog, a channel or a group instead. Premium Links covers every setting.

Publish it

Publishing puts the link live, and it's what you pay for: $9 a year per link. Until then, the link is a draft, and drafts are free.

1. If you don't have a subscription yet, the summary says One step from publishing. Select Save as draft.
2. Open the menu under your initials, top right, and select Billing. On Premium Links, choose a Quantity and select Go to checkout. You pay on Stripe's secure checkout.
3. Back in Links, open your draft and select Publish.

Once your subscription has room, Create link in the summary publishes a new link straight away. Billing covers changing the quantity and canceling.

A draft doesn't hold its address: each address goes to whoever publishes it first, so publish soon after you pick one.

Share it

Your link's page has a Share Your Link card:

• Copy puts the link on your clipboard, ready for your bio, your website or a chat.
• The QR code below it opens the same link. The download button saves it as a PNG unless you pick another format, and Style adds your colors and logo.

The guides show where to put it: Instagram, your website, ads and print.

See your clicks

Clicks show up moments after they happen.

• Quick Stats, on the link's page, shows its clicks over the last 30 days and its top source.
• View Full Analytics opens the full report: clicks by day, Traffic Sources, countries and cities, devices and browsers, and QR Code Scans counted apart from taps.

Link previews and other automated visits that Walink detects are left out, so the numbers show real visitors. More in Analytics.