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A resilient WhatsApp Business API rollout should include:

  1. business verification and policy ownership
  2. template lifecycle controls and approvals
  3. webhook delivery and retry handling
  4. fallback paths to SMS and email channels
  5. release-gate tests for critical journeys

WhatsApp Business API implementation checklist

1) Account and compliance readiness

  • verify business profile and sender eligibility
  • assign policy and template approvers
  • define escalation paths for rejected templates

2) Conversation and template model

  • map transactional and support use cases to approved categories
  • create template versioning and change-control workflow
  • document required localization and legal review rules

3) Event ingestion and routing

  • consume delivery and reply events via webhook
  • apply idempotent processing for retries
  • route failures to operational runbooks and alerts

4) Reliability and fallback design

  • define fallback routing to SMS API
  • keep high-priority notifications available through Email API
  • test fallback behavior for outage and policy-failure scenarios

5) Release and QA gates