I am trying to understand something about WhatsApp group messaging API for businesses. The question is: In order to send a message to a group as a business, does my business user have to explicitly be a member of that group? In other words, I want to create a group with a few of my customers via the API, but to post messages there without the need to have my business user to be explicitly listed among the group members.

I went over their official docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/api/messages/group/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/api/groups/

I also read this post (on which I would comment - if I had enough reputation) : How to send message on WhatsApp Group using official API

I didn't find an answer on this question there. Does anyone know?

Thanks :-)

Tag:whatsapp, messaging

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  1. Navjot Singh

    The feature that you're looking for is the equivalent of 'broadcast' feature on Android and iOS WhatsApp Apps. This is currently not supported by the WhatsApp API client.

    Sending a message through group is similar to creating a group on the phone Apps and sending the message. Just like you can't send a message to the group without being its member, you can't do that using the group API on the API client either.

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