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WhatsApp Business API with Twilio

Explore how to use the WhatsApp Business API with Twilio Sandbox to send and receive messages. Understand joining the sandbox, sending outbound messages, and setting up webhook URLs to handle incoming messages, enabling development and testing before production deployment.

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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 ...