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Start verifying today, before Meta approves your WhatsApp

By The Authevo Team5 min read

There’s an honest dependency in every WhatsApp verification setup: to send authentication codes from your own number, Meta has to verify your business first. That review can take days — and it shouldn’t hold your launch hostage. Here’s how to ship verification now and let WhatsApp switch itself on when it’s ready.

Why the wait exists

Meta requires a one-time Business Verification on your WhatsApp Business Account (WABA) before it can send authentication-category templates. It’s tied to your business, not to Authevo, and the timing is genuinely outside our hands. It’s the price of sending over official WhatsApp infrastructure rather than gray routes — but you don’t have to wait idle for it.

Telegram covers the gap

While your verification is pending, Authevo delivers your codes over Telegram automatically. The integration is identical either way — POST /v1/otp/send to deliver a code and POST /v1/otp/verify to check it — so nothing in your backend changes when the channel does. Your users get their codes today.

The switch is automatic

The moment Meta clears your Business Verification and your WABA can send auth templates, Authevo routes new codes over WhatsApp, with Telegram staying on as the fallback. There’s no redeploy and no code change — the same two calls simply start landing on WhatsApp.

What to do now

  • Create an account and generate your sk_ secret key.
  • Connect your WhatsApp Business Account and start Meta Business Verification.
  • Ship the two-call flow today — codes deliver over Telegram immediately, and WhatsApp turns on the moment you’re verified.