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Message Template

Messaging & templates

Definition
A pre-approved WhatsApp message format that a business must use to start conversations or message customers outside the 24-hour window.

What Message Template means

A message template is a standardised message format that Meta reviews and approves before it can be sent. Templates are required whenever a business initiates a conversation, or replies to a customer more than 24 hours after their last message — that is, any time outside the customer-service window.

Templates can contain variable placeholders (like {{1}} for a customer name or order number), a header, a body, a footer and interactive buttons. Each template is submitted in a category — Marketing, Utility or Authentication — which determines how it may be used and how each delivered message is billed.

InfiQ offers a template library with over 1,000 ready-to-edit examples and a template playground to draft, preview and validate templates before submitting them for Meta approval.

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