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Changelog

The history of changes to the API and the documentation.

Updated November 12, 2026View as Markdown

November 13, 2026 — Per-number pricing and free trial#

  • Plans are now measured in WhatsApp numbers: included numbers (2 on Starter, 3 on Pro, 5 on Business), a per-number surcharge, a number cap per tier, and a message quota per number. Connected businesses are no longer limited on paid plans. The "Growth" and "Scale" plans were renamed Pro and Business.
  • Overage fees lowered: 1, 0.5 and 0.25 FCFA per message, separate from the Meta cost. Sending is never interrupted by a paid plan's quota.
  • 7-day free trial for every new account, no credit card required, with the Starter limits (capped quota, no fees). GET /billing/overview exposes numbers, monthlyAmount and trial.
  • plan_limit_reached applies to the account's total number of numbers, before the signup code is exchanged.

November 12, 2026 — Complete templates and statistics#

  • Template creation validates the structure of all components before calling Meta: text or media header, body and examples, footer, buttons (quick reply, link, call, copy code) and the authentication template. See Templates.
  • A body with variables and no example is now rejected (400), as Meta does.
  • GET /messages accepts the type filter (including media). New route GET /stats/overview.

November 12, 2026 — Console: connections, messages, webhooks#

  • The console offers the Connections, Messages and Webhooks pages, with an environment selector (sandbox / production).
  • API-key routes also accept the console session, with the X-Environment-Id header (see Authentication).

November 12, 2026 — Number limit per business#

  • Plans now limit the number of WhatsApp numbers per connected business (production only): 402 plan_limit_reached beyond it. The check happens before the Meta signup code is exchanged, so a rejection does not consume it.
  • GET /billing/overview exposes plan.maxNumbersPerBusiness (null = unlimited).

November 12, 2026 — API v1#

First version of the API.

Accounts and access

  • Signup, login, revocable sessions; salted password hashing.
  • Applications with two strictly separated environments, sandbox and production.
  • pk_test_… / pk_live_… API keys, with scopes, revocation and last-used date; secret shown only once.

WhatsApp connection

  • Connected businesses, completion of Meta's Embedded Signup, accounts and numbers, coexistence mode.
  • Encrypted Meta tokens, never returned by the API.
  • A WhatsApp account can only be connected once across the whole platform.

Messages

  • Asynchronous, idempotent sending of text, images, videos, audio, documents, location and templates.
  • 24-hour rule enforced, automatic retries, per-number rate limiting.
  • Statuses that never move backward; paginated history.

Templates

  • Create, list, delete, sync; immediate rejection of a non-approved template; template.status_updated event.

Webhooks

  • Endpoints per environment, timestamped signature (HMAC-SHA256), 8 attempts, history of every attempt, replay, signing secret rotation, automatic disabling.
  • Protection against internal endpoints.

Usage and billing

  • Usage by day, category, country or number; estimated Meta cost and Bref Point Inbox fees on separate lines.
  • Plan quotas and limits in production; the sandbox is neither limited nor billed.

Observability

  • Single error format with requestId; call log without content; scheduled maintenance (purge according to retention, recovery of lost sends).
  • Sandbox simulator to test your webhooks without WhatsApp.

Coming soon and known limitations

  • Validation against the real Meta platform (Embedded Signup, sending, templates) is in progress.
  • No media upload or download through the API yet.
  • No official SDKs: generate a client from the OpenAPI specification.
  • Online payment for subscriptions is not yet available.