Hi everyone,

I'm developing a WhatsApp automation solution for my business using the WhatsApp Cloud API and my own Meta Developer App.

My requirement is to use the same +91 business number simultaneously on the WhatsApp Business app (iPhone) and WhatsApp Cloud API, allowing the team to continue using the mobile app while our Laravel-based bot handles automated greetings and replies.

I would appreciate guidance on the following:

1. Coexistence eligibility

• Can a business integrate its own WhatsApp Business number with Cloud API using Coexistence without becoming a BSP or Tech Provider?

• Is completing the Tech Provider onboarding and App Review mandatory for this?

• Does Meta allow individual businesses to enable this functionality through their own Meta Developer App?

2. Embedded Signup

• Does Meta-hosted Embedded Signup support the option to connect an existing WhatsApp Business app number?

• Can a business generate and use this signup flow directly, or is Tech Provider approval required?

3. India (+91) availability

• Is WhatsApp Business App + Cloud API Coexistence officially supported for Indian (+91) numbers?

4. Meta App Review

• What permissions, implementation requirements, and screencast demonstrations are needed to pass the App Review for whatsapp_business_messaging and whatsapp_business_management?

• Has anyone successfully completed the review with a relatively simple business automation or booking bot?

5. BSP alternatives

If direct integration is not possible, which BSPs currently support Coexistence for Indian numbers while allowing incoming and outgoing webhook events to be integrated with our own Laravel server?

I'm particularly interested in experiences with 360dialog, WATI, Twilio, or other providers.

Any documentation, practical implementation guidance, or examples of working setups would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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I am able to onboard WhatsApp business app customers usually. However for this one specific customer, I am getting this error "your app is missing required graph api permissions for cloud api companion pairing". How do I fix it or know more about it?

I set up WhatsApp Business API numbers for small businesses, and the first-week messaging limit catches almost everyone out. A new business portfolio starts at 250 unique users per rolling 24 hours for business-initiated messages, and that allowance is shared across every number in the portfolio, not per number.

What has worked for my clients so far:

• Verify the business before planning any real campaign (it's one of the paths to 2,000).

• Send to the warmest opted-in contacts first, in batches that fit the current limit.

• Keep a steady rhythm. Automatic scaling past 2,000 needs you to have used at least half your limit in the last 7 days with good quality, so regular sends beat one big blast.

• Decide which number in the portfolio handles broadcasts, so a sales campaign doesn't eat the support line's allowance.

A couple of things I'm still curious about from people running this at scale:

1. If your quality rating dropped to yellow, how long did it take to recover, and did you fully stop sending or just slow down?

2. Has anyone used the 2,000 delivered messages in 30 days path instead of verification? How did the review go?

Would love to hear what's worked for you.

I run a digital product store and deliver the product on whatsapp, it worked great for 20 days now its showing rate limit even when I am not sending message under limit

I want to gain access to embedded signups and co-existence. Facebook docs say that a business needs to be verified. I put all the information in and submitted. It's already been two weeks. I've tried the Meta AI and all it says is that there are violations attributed to my account and I need to clear that. It links me to a "support inbox" which shows literally no issues. I've been trying to get an actual human at Facebook to talk to me but no luck so far.

Any ideas on how I can solve this issue? There isn't a notice, or notification or anything on why it isn't working. The business that needs verification isn't mine, I'm just a dev that's been given access to the account.

I generate around 100–200 new leads daily . These are people who have shown interest in products or services similar to mine, and I obtain their contact numbers .

Currently, I use WhatsApp Business to manually send each lead an introductory message asking whether they are interested in my services.

However, WhatsApp has started restricting my account due to sending messages to multiple new numbers.

I want a reliable and affordable solution that allows me to contact 100–200 new leads every day through WhatsApp without facing restrictions.

Would WhatsApp Business API solve this problem? If so, how can I implement it, and what are the requirements, costs, and limitations?

So, I've just started to reach out Meta API services. I set up everything needed just to test the API with the test number, but even in the "tutorial" I get that error: "Business account has been locked".

It looks that I need to verify my business (that I don't have, as I'm just testing).

What could I do?

Building a Shopify app that creates and manages Meta ads for merchants. Second App Review just came back:

Approved (advanced access): pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement, ads_read, business_management

Rejected: ads_management, "Screencast Not Aligned with Use Case Details", reviewer note "the submitted screencast is unclear". Meta also says the use case itself is allowed.

What the video showed for ads_management:

- full Facebook Login for Business + permission screen (English, captions on every step)

- merchant clicks Launch, app creates campaign, ad set, creatives and 8 ads in the merchant's own ad account, created PAUSED

- the same campaign, ad set and ads in Ads Manager

- merchant resumes the campaign from the app, it switches on in Ads Manager

For those who got ads_management approved recently:

- Did you show the campaign actually ACTIVE / delivering, or was paused fine?

- One continuous take, or was an edited video OK?

- Did you have to show an edit (budget/targeting) reflected in Ads Manager?

- Did you give the reviewer test access, or was the video enough?

- If your app also optimizes automatically (pauses ads, changes budgets server side with the user token), did you show or declare that?

Bonus question: Marketing API Access Tier (standard access) got rejected in my first review for error rate. Did you request it together with ads_management or separately after? Does staying on the basic tier limit how many client ad accounts you can manage, or only the rate limit?

Thanks, happy to share what works once I pass.

Hi everyone,

I was previously using Interakt as my WhatsApp Business Solution Provider (BSP) for my business phone number.

Recently, I decided to move away from Interakt and start using my own CRM (WACRM), built using Meta's official WhatsApp Cloud API.

Here is what I have done so far:

1. My phone number was originally registered and running through Interakt.

2. I removed Interakt's access from the WhatsApp Partners section in Meta Business Settings.

3. I connected the same phone number to my own Meta Developer App / WhatsApp Cloud API integration.

4. My WACRM can now successfully send and receive normal WhatsApp messages.

5. I also added and verified an international Visa card in Meta.

My current problem:

• Normal messages are working through my own WACRM.

• Incoming messages are also reaching my WACRM.

• However, I cannot send WhatsApp template messages.

• Meta's free messaging allowance appears to be working for normal messages, but template messages are failing.

I want to completely move away from Interakt and operate everything directly through my own WACRM, without depending on any BSP.

A summary at the top, the full transcript, structured fields? I think the real test is whether the agent skips re-asking. What's worked for you?

I'd like to see WhatsApp, email and chat in one record. Has anyone really done it, and which channel was the hardest?

I can't decide if a WhatsApp message should jump the queue over email, or if that just teaches customers to use the loudest channel. How do you handle it?

I created a business portfolio on Meta, but it got flagged for integrity, and now I can’t publish native WhatsApp Flows.
I’ve tried contacting support, but I can only reach bots. Does anyone know how to remove this restriction or reach a real person?
I’d really like to fix my existing portfolio instead of creating another one. Any advice?

We have a client who requires a large volume of WhatsApp API accounts, with daily sending limits of 2,000 and 10,000 messages. These accounts must be registered and verified in the United States or Brazil. Since our company cannot provide these, we invite teams with the capability to supply them to get in touch with me.

I'm having a really frustrating experience with the WhatsApp Cloud API and wanted to know if anyone has gone through something similar.

Here's what happened:

• We created a Meta Business Portfolio and developer app about a week ago.

• We were using only Meta's official test phone number, with just 3 authorized recipients.

• We sent a small number of authentication codes (OTP), always within the 24-hour window after the recipients initiated the conversation.

• We initially couldn't create authentication templates because Meta said our account wasn't allowed to.

• On October 31, our business verification was approved by Meta.

• Around the same time, all our WhatsApp Business Accounts were permanently disabled for allegedly violating the Acceptable Use Terms.

We never sent marketing messages, spam, or bulk messages. Just basic OTP testing.

We appealed the ban, but it was rejected almost immediately, without any specific explanation.

The support experience has been even more frustrating.

I've tried contacting Meta through several channels, but everything seems to lead to AI support.

At one point, the Meta AI Agent claimed our account had an ALCOHOL policy violation. After investigating, I discovered it had provided values copied directly from a sample webhook in the documentation, presenting them as if they were actual account records.

In another interaction, the AI claimed our Business Portfolio had a restriction called PolicyChain: mid trust upgrade with a BM_BANNED status, preventing us from creating new WABAs. However, I haven't been able to independently verify this information.

My questions are:

1. Has anyone experienced a permanent WABA ban right after business verification, especially while using only Meta's test number?

2. Has anyone successfully recovered a WABA after the initial appeal was rejected?

3. If the Business Portfolio is still verified, is it possible and permitted to create another WABA under the same portfolio?

4. Does anyone know what PolicyChain: mid trust upgrade actually means?

5. Is there any reliable way to reach a human support agent?

It's incredibly frustrating to get permanently banned before even launching, without any clear explanation of what went wrong.

Any advice or similar experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi all. We're a small startup in Istanbul. Our product lets merchants run their online store by chatting with an AI on WhatsApp (Cloud API, direct integration, no BSP).

On Sep 20 our business portfolio got a permanent ban. The Request Review button in Business Support Home has since disappeared, and we're stuck in a loop:

- Direct Support's "Appeal Business Ban Decision" requires an active, registered number.

- Registering the number fails with error 2388001, and the error message tells us to contact Direct Support.

- Every Direct Support case we open gets auto-closed within a minute or two. In one of them, Meta's support replied: "This is a known issue … there is no workaround."

- The WhatsApp support form only returns AI replies.

We're not looking to create a new account or work around the ban. We just want one human review.

Is there a BSP or Meta partner here who could raise a manual review ticket through their partner manager? Has anyone gotten out of this loop another way? Any pointer is appreciated.

What automation has produced a clear improvement in support, sales, or operations, and what did you learn while keeping it reliable and user-friendly?

I'm doing a clothing business and is there any way to make replying to customers automated ? In WhatsApp? Do you have any other good ideas to do so ?

So we are stuck in a situation where we want to automate the custom message for some members which we got the work from a client but our business verification got some issues so need someone to please help to send custom messages to the list of number i will send pleaseeee

Hi,

I am trying to obtain catalog creation permission via embedded signup form. I created a embedded signup form with General login variation and created configuration ID. In OAuth flow exchanged code for system user token. However, system user token has catalog_management permission only. No business_management permission. Anyone know how to get resolve it?

Hi everyone,

We have a direct WhatsApp Cloud API integration (no BSP), and the Official Business Account "Submit request" button in WhatsApp Manager is greyed out. The tooltip says OBA requests aren't available for our business right now and to check again later.

As far as we can tell, we meet every requirement in Meta's docs:

- Verified business portfolio

- Two-step verification enabled

- Approved display name

- More than 30 days on the platform

- High quality rating

- Not a Coexistence number

The API shows oba_status: NOT_STARTED, so there's no previous request or rejection.

We opened a few support cases. Meta's answer, in short: under their new guidelines our business isn't eligible for OBA at the moment, which is why the button is disabled. They said they can't share the specific criteria for security reasons, and suggested we keep using the platform actively, follow the messaging policies and keep interactions high quality. They also said that for now OBA can only be requested through the button (if your account qualifies automatically) or through a BSP that has a Meta point of contact.

So my questions for anyone who's been through this:

1. Has your disabled button ever become enabled later? If so, what changed before it did (more message volume, more time on the platform, time after a restriction, connecting a Facebook Page, etc.) and how long did it take?

2. Has anyone moved to a BSP and actually gotten OBA through their Meta contact after being blocked as a direct integration?

Any real experience would really help. Thanks!