How To Send A WhatsApp Direct Message Without Adding A Contact

WhatsApp has become an indispensable tool for both personal and business communication. However, a common requirement on WhatsApp Business is that you need to add a contact to send messages. This can be inconvenient in certain situations.

Let’s take a look at how to send a WhatsApp Business message without needing to add or save a number to your contacts. We’ll also discuss some reasons why you might want to message contacts without saving them, and provide multiple methods for you to try.

How do I send a message on WhatsApp Business?

Just like the regular WhatsApp app, the WhatsApp Business app normally requires you to add the recipient’s phone number to your contacts. This ensures that the contact is saved in your phone’s address book, making it easy to initiate future conversations and save your communication history.

Usually, you would follow the steps below to send a message on WhatsApp Business:

1. Add the recipient’s phone number to your contacts.
2. Launch the WhatsApp Business app and allow it to sync your contacts.
3. Find the contact in the WhatsApp Business app and start a chat.

Why is it good practice to save a contact’s number when messaging on WhatsApp Business?

In general, it’s a good idea to save the number of new contacts when you message them on WhatsApp Business.

At YourBusinessNumber, our experts recommend saving each contact’s number where possible to avoid your account being temporarily banned by WhatsApp. WhatsApp has strict rules in place to protect users and stop accounts which send spam or unwanted messages. Unfortunately, regularly sending messages to contacts that you haven’t saved may be flagged by WhatsApp as spam usage.

Find out how to avoid a WhatsApp Business ban here.

With that said, there are some legitimate circumstances where you may consider sending a message without saving the contact details, and we’ll cover these in the rest of this article.

Why would I want to send a message without saving a contact’s number?

There are several reasons why you might want to send a message on WhatsApp Business without adding the recipient to your contacts. These include:

You’re rarely messaging this contact

When you need to send a message to someone only once or very occasionally, saving their contact might clutter your address book with unnecessary information. You might choose to send your message without saving the number to keep your contact list pared down to the bare minimum. This allows you to find the contacts you do message regularly more easily.

You’re concerned about privacy

Although WhatsApp Messenger and WhatsApp Business are very secure platforms for communication, you may have privacy concerns that mean you prefer to keep your saved contacts to a minimum. In this case, you might prefer not to save numbers of unknown individuals or temporary contacts to your contacts list.

You’re messaging the contact as a business

As a business owner, you’ll be well aware of the high volume of messages that you’re likely to get every day on WhatsApp Businesses. For businesses, frequent interactions with numerous clients or customers may make it impractical to save every number.

How can you send messages on WhatsApp Business without saving a contact’s number?

Here are several methods to send a WhatsApp message without saving a contact:

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Use the Click to Chat feature

WhatsApp provides a built-in Click to Chat feature that allows you to initiate a chat with any phone number. This can be used on smartphones or on computers, using WhatsApp Web.

1. Open your preferred web browser.
2. In the address bar, type https://wa.me/<number>, replacing <number> with the full phone number, including the country code. Make sure you leave out any zeroes, brackets or dashes. For example, to send a message to the YourBusinessNumber customer service team, you would enter https://wa.me/442080401100.
3. This will open a WhatsApp webpage with a Continue to Chat button.
4. Click the button, and it will open the chat in WhatsApp.

Send the number to yourself on WhatsApp

WhatsApp recently made it possible to send yourself messages on the app. This is a great way to send yourself information, reminders or notes that you might otherwise forget. It also makes it possible to send a message to an unsaved number by following the steps below.

How to send a number to yourself on iPhone

1. Open the WhatsApp app.
2. Click the green plus sign in the top right hand side of your Chats screen.
3. Search your own name in the search bar, then choose your number. This will display in a number format with the subheading Message Yourself underneath.
4. Enter or copy and paste the unsaved number into your chat with yourself. The number will appear in the chat screen.
5. Tap on the number and select the option to Chat with <number>.
6. A new chat window will open with the unsaved number. You can now enter your message to that number.

How to send a number to yourself on Android

1. Open the WhatsApp app.
2. Click the new chat icon in the top right hand side of your Chats screen.
3. Search your own name in the search bar, then choose your number.
4. Enter or copy and paste the unsaved number into your chat with yourself. The number will appear in the chat screen.
5. Tap on the number and select the option to Chat with <number>.
6. A new chat window will open with the unsaved number. You can now enter your message to that number.

Use a third-party app

There are several third-party apps that will allow you to send WhatsApp messages without saving contacts. Some popular ones include:

Click to Chat

Click to Chat is available on Google Play Store. This app allows you to input the phone number and start a WhatsApp chat directly with the recipient.

Find out more about Click to Chat.

WhatsDirect

WhatsDirect is another app that simplifies the process of starting a new WhatsApp chat by allowing you to enter the number and message directly within the app, without saving the contact.

Find out more about WhatsDirect.

Note: YourBusinessNumber has not tested these third-party apps, and is not affiliated with them. You are advised to carry out your own research to check that these solutions meet your requirements before using these apps.

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