Connect a number from a link
Your AI app can give you, or email to a teammate, a link that connects a WhatsApp Business number to your Whatsable account with no login. The link works for 24 hours and is used up when a number connects.
When your AI app is connected to Whatsable and your account has no WhatsApp number yet, the AI app can give you a link to connect one. The link opens a Whatsable page that runs Meta's signup. The person who opens it does not need a Whatsable account, so you can also send it to the teammate who manages the business's WhatsApp.
What the link does
- It connects one WhatsApp Business number to the account that created the link. The page shows the account's name, so the person knows where the number goes.
- It works for 24 hours. After that, the page says that the link has expired.
- Opening the page does not use the link up. The link is used up only when a number connects through it. If Meta's signup is cancelled or fails, the same link still works.
- A used link shows that it was used. To connect another number, ask your AI app for a new link.
- The number counts like any other number. The trial starts when the account connects its first number, and the plan's number limit applies.
Only an AI app with Full access can create a link, because the link lets its holder add a number to your account. See Access and connections for the access levels.
Ask your AI app for a link
Ask in your own words, for example:
- "Give me the link to connect my WhatsApp number."
- "Send the WhatsApp connect link to ana@example.com."
Your AI app uses one tool, create_number_connect_link:
- Without an email address, it creates the link and gives it to you in the chat.
- With an email address, it also emails the link to that address, with you in CC. The email names your account and says that you asked.
The email only sends the link. Whatsable does not send it on WhatsApp yet.
When your account has no number, the AI app offers the link before anything else: that is the first step of the Get started workflow. During the trial, it also asks once whether the business has other numbers, and offers a link for each.
Connect the number
Open the link
The page shows the account the number will join and when the link stops working.
Choose Connect WhatsApp
Meta opens a window. Sign in with Facebook, choose the business, and confirm the number. It takes about 5 minutes.
Finish on the page
The page says when the number is connected. If WhatsApp asks for the number's six-digit two-step PIN, the page shows a box for it. If the page shows a two-step PIN, save it: it is shown once.
From the API
The same link comes from POST /v1/number-connect-links. Send an empty body to get the link, or email (and an optional name) to email it. The API key must have Full access; a key with a list of scopes answers 403 insufficient_scope.