WHATSAPP CATALOGUE

QR code for a WhatsApp catalogue

Opens your catalogue rather than a chat — for a shop window, where browsing comes before asking.

A WhatsApp catalogue QR code stores a link to a business’s WhatsApp catalogue, so a phone opens its products in WhatsApp.

Add the content

WhatsApp Business numberWith the country code. The number must have a catalogue on WhatsApp Business.

Style this code

Style this code — colour, shape, branding, frame and output

Colour & contrastThe ink, the paper behind it, and the three eyes. Every choice is contrast-checked as you make it.

Foreground

18.0:1 against the background — clears the 4.5:1 a camera wants margin on.

Background

Transparency0%

Eye colours

ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.

Modules

Every shape here is decode-tested before it is offered. Shapes that lose the symbol — diamond, star, heart — are not on this list, however good they look.

Eye frame

Eye centre

BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.

Logo image

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PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2MB. The modules beneath it are cleared and error correction rises to cover the hole.

Background picture

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Sits behind the modules, quiet zone included. A busy picture is the classic reason a decorated code stops scanning — check the preview with a phone before printing.

Foreground texture

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Washes over the ink itself, so it is capped well below full strength — at full strength there is no code left to scan.

Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.

Frame style

A frame is drawn outside the quiet zone, never into it — the canvas grows instead, so the border cannot cost the code its margin.

OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.

Options

PNG size

Margin4 modulesError correctionEncoding

Automatic picks the smallest encoding that carries your text, and is right almost always. The other three exist for older scanners that expect one specific encoding; each refuses text it cannot carry rather than mangling it. Encodings we cannot convert to correctly are not offered at all.The margin never goes below 4 — ISO/IEC 18004's minimum; smaller is not a QR code. A logo raises error correction to at least Q. Encoding is chosen by the encoder per symbol and shown in the readout — a manual charset menu only makes codes bigger.

Embedded data

https://wa.me/c/910000000000The exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

Save this design — free account, the code stays editable →

Your code

v225×25 modulesmixedEC-M25/28mask 6

4/4 4 of 4 checks passHow we measure

Print-ready PDF

A press file at the finished size: 3mm bleed, crop marks and a trim box a print shop’s checks read. The code is drawn black on white whatever the design above — how a colour prints is something only a test print can show.

Format

No account · no watermark · no scan limits

Catalogue, not chat

A plain WhatsApp code opens an empty conversation, which asks the customer to start by typing. This one opens your product list instead. On a window at closing time that is the difference between a browse and nothing.

It publishes the number, permanently

The code contains your business number and a printed code cannot be unpublished. That is fine for a shop line and worth thinking about before putting a personal number on a sign.

An empty catalogue is a worse landing than a chat

The link resolves whether or not products are listed. Check the catalogue has items before the code goes to print, because the failure is silent and looks like a broken code to whoever scanned it.

WhatsApp catalogue QR codes

Does it need WhatsApp Business?

Yes. Catalogues are a Business feature; a personal account has nothing to open.

What if the customer has no WhatsApp?

The link opens in a browser, which shows the catalogue and offers the app.

Can I link one product?

This makes a catalogue link. A single product has its own URL — use the URL type if that is the destination.

Does the catalogue have to be published?

Yes. Products still in draft do not appear to anyone but you, so the link opens an empty shelf — publish the catalogue before the code goes to print.

Want to change it after it’s printed?

Make it a dynamic code: it carries a short link you can point somewhere new at any time, and it counts every scan. A free account includes 5 dynamic codes and needs no card — and a dynamic code keeps redirecting even if you never upgrade.

Make it dynamic, free How dynamic codes work