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Graph API requests made with an application access token are counted against that app’s rate limit. An app’s call count is the number of calls it can make during a rolling one hour window and is calculated as follows: Calls within one hour = 200 * Number of Users The Number of Users is based on the number of unique daily active users an app has. In cases where there are slow periods of daily usage, such as if your app has high activity on weekends but low activity over weekdays, the weekly and monthly active Users are used to calculate the number of Users for your app. Apps with high daily engagement will have higher rate limits than apps with low daily engagement, regardless of the actual number of app installs.

We are building a platform for WhatsApp business messaging. For this, we need to test the product catalog messaging APIs.

However, it seems there is no way to do so without creating a public business account and adding a payment method.

Is there a means to access the APIs without going through the above steps? Especially the payment method as we do not wish to start paying for testing our product before going live.

We have created a product catalog and connected it to the WhatsApp business account on an actual phone number. But we cannot send messages without adding a payment method.

So when i create or edit my WhatsApp templates trough meta web portal, it seems that there is kind a problem with call to action buttons and dynamic URL.
My dynamic URL looks like:
https://www.my-website.com.co/payment?reference={{1}}
Where {{1}} is a alphanumeric value, for example:
https://www.my-website.com.co/payment?reference=12345678
But for some reason, when i submit the template, a slash is added between my URL and the dynamic value, so after the revision is confirmed, if go back and edit again the tempate, the slash is added:
https://www.my-website.com.co/payment?reference=/{{1}}
When I use the template to send an message, obviously the button is not working because URL is not well formed:
https://www.my-website.com.co/payment?reference=/12345678
Thing is that this was working fine some weeks ago as I was able to create templates with no slash automatically added, but now is completely broken, there is no way to change it.
I am going to try editing it trough API call, but do not thinks it going to help me.
Attached to this ticket you can find a screenshot for better understanding.
Will appreciate any help in case I am doing something wrong.
Regards. Max B