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How do I verify a WhatsApp Business account?

In your Meta Business Portfolio: Security Centre → Business verification, with the legal name, address, a document that matches it, and a website or email on the business's domain; Meta answers in a few days and the messaging limit rises from 250.

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In your Meta Business Portfolio: Security Centre → Business verification, with the legal name, address, a document that matches it, and a website or email on the business's domain; Meta answers in a few days and the messaging limit rises from 250.

In your Meta Business Portfolio: Security Centre → Start verification. Meta asks for the legal business name and address, a document that carries them — a GST certificate, a registration, a utility bill — and a way to confirm you belong to the business: an email on its domain, a phone number, or a domain you can verify. Answers usually come within a few days.

Verification is what lifts the WhatsApp messaging limit from 250 conversations a day; the green tick is a separate application afterwards. It is free.

How to get the API covers where verification sits in the setup; business verification is the term.

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