Connect Your Own Meta App

Connect Your Own Meta App Run WhatsApp through your own Meta app and pay Meta directly at their own rates. Relaytiv adds no per-message fees on this connection, and there is no Twilio account in the middle. Because the WhatsApp account is yours, your clients only ever see your business name. This is the most technical of the WhatsApp connection options — you will create an app inside Meta's developer site and copy four values back into Relaytiv . Plan for about 20 minutes. If that sounds like more than you want to deal with, the managed WhatsApp Business connection stays the simplest way to get started. What you need Access to your Meta Business Manager account. A phone number that is not already in use on the WhatsApp app. About 20 minutes. Part 1 — Set up your app in Meta Do these steps on Meta's side first. You will collect four values along the way: an App ID , an App secret , an Access token , and a WhatsApp account ID . 1. Create an app Go to developers.facebook.com , open My Apps and press Create App . Choose the Business type and give it any name — the name is only visible to you. 2. Add WhatsApp to the app On the app dashboard, find WhatsApp in the list of products and press Set up . Meta creates a test WhatsApp account with a free test number so you can try things out before connecting a real number. 3. Turn on the WhatsApp permissions This is the step most guides skip, and skipping it is the most common reason the connection fails later. In your app, open App Revie