WhatsApp Business API with Twilio

Learn how Twilio can be used for messaging with WhatsApp Business API.

To send messages with WhatsApp in production, WhatsApp has to approve our account formally. But, that doesn’t mean we have to wait to start building. Twilio Sandbox for WhatsApp lets us test our application in a developer environment.

Join the sandbox

We must first join the Sandbox to send or receive WhatsApp messages from the Sandbox. To do this, send the message join <your Sandbox keyword> to WhatsApp Sandbox number +1-415-523-8886. Our Sandbox keyword is a unique string that can be found on the WhatsApp Sandbox page, as shown below:

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