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WhatsApp

Step 1

Go to Facebook Developers Page by clicking on this link: https://developers.facebook.com. Login there using your account credentials by finding the "Log In" button or "Getting Started" Button under the navigation panel.

Login

Login to your facebook developers account if you already have one else if you are a new user register for it (its absolutely free) and then login.

Step 2

Click on "My Apps" panel if you are on the facebook developers home screen after logging in.

Click on "My Apps" panel

Step 3

Once you are in the "My apps" section click on “Create App” to create a new whatsapp app.

Click on “Create App”

Step 4

Choose Business App option then click on "Next" after scrolling down.

Choose Business App option

Step 5

Fill in your app name and email address. You can leave the Business account information to default "No Business Manager account selected". After filling in all the required information, click on "Create App".

Fill in your app name and email address

Step 6

Re-enter your password if prompted for security reasons. Then in the next screen choose "WhatsApp" after Scrolling down.

Re-enter your password

Step 7

Click on the "Continue" button, leaving everything to default values.

Click on the "Continue" button

Step 8

Click on "Start Using the API" button.

Click on "Start Using the API" button

Step 9

Copy and Save the following attributes: Temporary access token, Phone Number Id and Whatsapp Business Account ID. (Will be used in following steps)

Copy and Save the attributes

Also, Add your phone number on which you want to test the bot. (Click on the drop down button, choose manage phone numbers, add you number and country code, fill in the Otp received)

Copy and Save the attributes

Then Click on Send message to receive a test text message on your provided phone number.

Copy and Save the attributes

You can verify the message on your whatsapp application

Copy and Save the attributes

Step 10

Go to Ingest AI whatsapp bots page by clicking on this link https://app.ingestai.io/main/whatsapps. Click on "Add Whatsapp Bot".

Ingest AI whatsapp bots

Step 11

Fill in the bot name and other attributes (Access Token, Default Library, Phone ID, Facebook Business ID) that you saved in step 9. Leave the "Verify Token" to default value (No value) and click on save.

Fill in the bot name and other attributes

Step 12

After saving the bot you will receive a message as well as verify token.

After saving the bot you will receive a message

Save this Webhook Url and Verify Token (To be used in further steps)

Step 13

Go back to the facebook dashboard and click on Configure Webhooks after scrolling down a bit.

Go back to the facebook dashboard

Step 14

Click on Edit and enter the Webhook Url and Verify Token saved from step 12.

Click on Edit

Click on Edit

After that click on "Verify and Save"

Step 15

Now click on "Manage" under Webhook fields.

Click on "Manage" under Webhook fields

Step 16

Click on "Subscribe" under Messages to get messages using the bot.

Click on "Subscribe" under Messages

Step 17

You are all set now you can start using the bot on the Test Number.

Test Number

Step 18

To make your bot live click on this Live toggle button.

Click on this Live toggle button

Also enter your Privacy Policy Url under the basic section in settings if prompted and then click "save changes".

Enter your Privacy Policy Url

That's all \uD83C\uDF89 ! You’re amazing \uD83E\uDD29 ! Have fun!