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Maharashtra · Updated 2026-10-20

WhatsApp Business API for Achalpur and Paratwada's traders and travel desks

Ellichpur was a sultan's capital in 1490; today it is half of a twin town, with its old camp, Paratwada, for the other half.

Achalpur was Ellichpur, a sultan's capital from 1490 and later a district of its own. Today it is half of a twin town with Paratwada, and its firms answer growers, buyers and visitors from one counter.

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State
Maharashtra
District
Amravati: 12,210 sq km, 14 talukas, 2,027 villages[1]
Former name
Ellichpur, capital of Berar's Imad Shahi sultans[5],[2]
Twin town
Paratwada, the old Achalpur camp[5]
District ODOP
Textile; mandarin orange[6]
Billing
₹ with GST to your Maharashtra GSTIN

For the mandarin orange traders, cloth and yarn dealers, shops and Melghat travel desks of Achalpur and its twin town Paratwada: how one WhatsApp number can serve a firm's yard, counter, dispatch and accounts, which templates to write in Marathi and Hindi, and what each message costs.

Achalpur in seven lines

From the Amravati district administration, the National Textile Corporation and Invest India's ODOP list; Wikipedia only for the town's history and geography.

As Ellichpur, the town became the capital of the Imad Shahi dynasty of the Berar Sultanate when Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk declared independence in 1490; the district's history page captions it as Berar's capital.[5],[2]

Under British rule an Ellichpur district was separated in 1867 and merged back into Amravati district in 1905; the area joined Maharashtra in 1960.[2]

Paratwada, the old Achalpur camp, is its twin town, and the two are surrounded by the Sapan and Bichhan rivers, tributaries of the Chandrabhaga.[5]

In 1901 the town had ginning factories and a trade in cotton and forest produce, with roads to Amravati and Chikhaldara; Achalpur was also the northern end of the narrow-gauge Shakuntala Railway, closed after 2016.[5]

The National Textile Corporation lists Finlay Mill, Achalpur, on Amravati Road, among its production units.[4]

Invest India's One District One Product list names textile and mandarin orange for Amravati district.[6]

Amravati district counts 12,210 sq km, 14 talukas and 2,027 villages, and its Melghat Tiger Reserve lies on a southern offshoot of the Satpura range.[1],[3]

See it work

One number, four desks across the twin town

An illustrative Achalpur firm buys mandarin oranges at its yard, sells cloth from a counter in Paratwada, runs trucks and keeps one accounts desk. Switch the strategy to see how the morning's chats are shared out.

In InfiQ, a short Flows menu can ask whether a chat is about oranges, cloth, a truck or a payment and label it, and the shared inbox lets a manager assign and transfer conversations, with private notes so accounts sees what the yard promised a grower.

Every answer here follows a customer's message, so it needs no template and is charged at the service rate. Templates come in when the firm writes first: the truck number for a buyer, a payment note for a grower.

Routing a morning's chats in Achalpur and Paratwada

6 / 6

Only agents with the required skill are eligible; the least busy of them wins.

Incoming · 0 left

  1. All 6 conversations have been routed.

Conversation 6 of 6 · Skills-based

Please send the GST invoice for the cloth order(needs payment)goes toAccounts

Skills: needs payment, and only Accounts has it.

  • Achalpur orange yard

    2 of 3 open

    • orange
    1. Can I bring 40 crates of mandarins to the yard tomorrow?needs orange
    2. Rate for medium-size fruit this week?needs orange

  • Paratwada cloth counter

    1 of 2 open

    • cloth
    1. Do you have the new shirting in stock? Send photosneeds cloth

  • Dispatch

    1 of 2 open

    • truck
    1. Which truck is carrying our oranges to Nagpur?needs truck

  • Accounts

    2 of 2 open

    Full
    • payment
    1. Payment for last week's crates has not comeneeds payment
    2. Please send the GST invoice for the cloth orderneeds payment

Waiting · 0

  1. Nobody waiting: every conversation found an agent.
Same 6 conversations, each strategy
StrategyRoutedWaitingSkill mismatches
Skills-based600
Sticky604
Least busy601
An illustrative firm and illustrative chats. Skills send each chat to the desk that handles it; least-busy evens out the load; sticky keeps a grower or a shop with the person who served them last time.

Conversation 6 of 6, Please send the GST invoice for the cloth order: Skills: needs payment, and only Accounts has it.

Three names, one delivery address

Customers in the twin town give their address as Achalpur, Paratwada or, on old papers, Ellichpur, and the district itself lists them under Amravati. None of this matters to WhatsApp, which addresses a customer by phone number, but it matters to the templates a firm writes.

Keep the place out of the fixed text and put it in a variable. One approved delivery template then carries 'Paratwada camp' for one shop and 'Achalpur city' for the next, and Meta does not need to approve a version for each spelling. The same goes for the display name: it should be the firm's trading name, not the town's.

Who in Achalpur shares one number

Four kinds of business that follow from the district's ODOP entries, its mill and its forest.

Mandarin orange traders

Mandarin orange is one of Amravati district's ODOP entries; yards talk to growers about crates and rates, and to buyers about trucks.[6]

  • Rate replies to growers who ask
  • Truck number to the buyer
  • Payment note to the grower

Cloth and yarn dealers

Textile is the district's other ODOP entry, and the National Textile Corporation's Finlay Mill stands on Achalpur's Amravati Road.[6],[4]

  • Stock photos to shops that ask
  • Order confirmation and dispatch
  • New-stock offers to opted-in retailers

Shops across the twin town

Achalpur and Paratwada share customers, so one shop's deliveries go to addresses under either name.[5]

  • Order-ready notes
  • Delivery with the address as a variable
  • Bills on request

Travel desks for Melghat

The Melghat Tiger Reserve lies in Amravati district on a southern offshoot of the Satpura range.[3]

  • Trip booking confirmation
  • Driver and car details
  • Replies about timings

Marathi for growers, Hindi for buyers further north

Marathi is the language of most growers and customers in the twin town, and buyers in Hindi-speaking states often prefer Hindi. Both are Meta template languages, approved separately.

Inside the 24-hour window, staff can reply in whatever language the customer writes. InfiQ's own support works in English and Hindi.

Meta template languages relevant to Achalpur
LanguageMeta codeUse it for
MarathimrGrowers, shops and most customers in Achalpur and Paratwada
HindihiOrange and cloth buyers in Madhya Pradesh and the north
English (India)en_INInvoices and corporate buyers

Prices in ₹, with USD and EUR

What an Achalpur desk pays per message

A plan from ₹999 a month with 10 inbox users on Lite, then each delivered message at the India rate: ₹0.145 for a reply from any desk, ₹0.19 for a truck or payment note, ₹0.14 for a passcode and ₹0.94 for a season offer.

Snapshot rates · as of 20 Oct 2026, 00:02 UTC

Lite

₹999 / month≈ $10.51 USD

₹833 / month, billed yearly≈ $8.76 USD

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₹2,999 / month≈ $31.55 USD

₹2,499 / month, billed yearly≈ $26.29 USD

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Per message to Achalpur · India

InfiQ per-message rates for Achalpur in rupees and USD
Category₹ INRUSD
Marketing₹0.9435$0.0099
Utility₹0.1941$0.0020
Authentication₹0.1402$0.0015
Service₹0.1450$0.0015
Per-message rates for all 47 markets, in ₹ and USD
Per-message rates by market, effective 1 October 2026
MarketMarketingUtilityAuthenticationService
Argentina$0.0572₹5.4352$0.0241₹2.2874$0.0241₹2.2874$0.0241₹2.2874
Bangladesh$0.0678₹6.4397$0.0034₹0.3254$0.0034₹0.3254$0.0034₹0.3254
Brazil$0.0578₹5.4970$0.0063₹0.5981$0.0063₹0.5981$0.0063₹0.5981
Chile$0.0822₹7.8162$0.0185₹1.7585$0.0185₹1.7585$0.0185₹1.7585
Colombia$0.0116₹1.0993$0.0007₹0.0706$0.0007₹0.0706$0.0007₹0.0706
Egypt$0.0596₹5.6629$0.0033₹0.3167$0.0033₹0.3167$0.0033₹0.3167
France$0.0795₹7.5588$0.0278₹2.6393$0.0278₹2.6393$0.0278₹2.6393
Germany$0.126₹12.0088$0.0509₹4.8386$0.0509₹4.8386$0.0509₹4.8386
Hong Kong$0.0678₹6.4397$0.0241₹2.2867$0.0241₹2.2867$0.0241₹2.2867
Hungary$0.0795₹7.5596$0.0323₹3.0700$0.0323₹3.0700$0.0323₹3.0700
India$0.0099₹0.9435$0.0020₹0.1941$0.0015₹0.1402$0.0015₹0.1450
Indonesia$0.0380₹3.6133$0.0231₹2.1979$0.0231₹2.1979$0.0231₹2.1979
Iraq$0.0316₹2.9992$0.0073₹0.6943$0.0073₹0.6943$0.0073₹0.6943
Israel$0.0327₹3.1045$0.0049₹0.4662$0.0049₹0.4662$0.0049₹0.4662
Italy$0.0735₹6.9847$0.0277₹2.6369$0.0277₹2.6369$0.0277₹2.6369
Kazakhstan$0.0559₹5.3098$0.0166₹1.5824$0.0166₹1.5824$0.0166₹1.5824
Kuwait$0.0733₹6.9671$0.0407₹3.8671$0.0407₹3.8671$0.0407₹3.8671
Malaysia$0.0796₹7.5644$0.0130₹1.2314$0.0130₹1.2314$0.0130₹1.2314
Mexico$0.0367₹3.4877$0.0079₹0.7471$0.0079₹0.7471$0.0079₹0.7471
Morocco$0.0383₹3.6425$0.0213₹2.0218$0.0213₹2.0218$0.0213₹2.0218
Netherlands$0.148₹14.0494$0.0463₹4.3987$0.0463₹4.3987$0.0463₹4.3987
Nepal$0.0678₹6.4397$0.0031₹0.2990$0.0031₹0.2990$0.0031₹0.2990
Nigeria$0.0478₹4.5421$0.0062₹0.5898$0.0062₹0.5898$0.0062₹0.5898
Oman$0.0316₹2.9992$0.0228₹2.1709$0.0228₹2.1709$0.0228₹2.1709
Pakistan$0.0438₹4.1620$0.0139₹1.3200$0.0139₹1.3200$0.0139₹1.3200
Peru$0.0651₹6.1843$0.0278₹2.6392$0.0278₹2.6392$0.0278₹2.6392
Poland$0.0338₹3.2105$0.0113₹1.0702$0.0113₹1.0702$0.0113₹1.0702
Qatar$0.0316₹2.9992$0.0111₹1.0547$0.0111₹1.0547$0.0111₹1.0547
Romania$0.0795₹7.5596$0.0268₹2.5436$0.0268₹2.5436$0.0268₹2.5436
Russia$0.0742₹7.0520$0.0370₹3.5173$0.0370₹3.5173$0.0370₹3.5173
Saudi Arabia$0.0532₹5.0537$0.0099₹0.9401$0.0099₹0.9401$0.0099₹0.9401
Singapore$0.0678₹6.4397$0.0148₹1.4072$0.0148₹1.4072$0.0148₹1.4072
South Africa$0.0351₹3.3385$0.0088₹0.8369$0.0088₹0.8369$0.0088₹0.8369
Spain$0.0654₹6.2161$0.0185₹1.7578$0.0185₹1.7578$0.0185₹1.7578
Sri Lanka$0.0678₹6.4397$0.0019₹0.1759$0.0019₹0.1759$0.0019₹0.1759
Turkey$0.0101₹0.9587$0.0008₹0.0792$0.0008₹0.0792$0.0008₹0.0792
Ukraine$0.0795₹7.5596$0.0275₹2.6138$0.0275₹2.6138$0.0275₹2.6138
United Arab Emirates$0.0532₹5.0537$0.0145₹1.3811$0.0145₹1.3811$0.0145₹1.3811
United Kingdom$0.0587₹5.5795$0.0204₹1.9346$0.0204₹1.9346$0.0204₹1.9346
North America$0.0231₹2.1976$0.0031₹0.2989$0.0031₹0.2989$0.0031₹0.2989
Rest of Africa$0.0208₹1.9796$0.0037₹0.3516$0.0037₹0.3516$0.0037₹0.3516
Rest of Asia Pacific$0.0779₹7.4057$0.0105₹0.9938$0.0105₹0.9938$0.0105₹0.9938
Rest of Central & Eastern Europe$0.0795₹7.5596$0.0196₹1.8595$0.0196₹1.8595$0.0196₹1.8595
Rest of Latin America$0.0684₹6.5048$0.0105₹0.9934$0.0105₹0.9934$0.0105₹0.9934
Rest of Middle East$0.0363₹3.4490$0.0084₹0.7998$0.0084₹0.7998$0.0084₹0.7998
Rest of Western Europe$0.0548₹5.2054$0.0158₹1.5019$0.0158₹1.5019$0.0158₹1.5019
Other$0.0559₹5.3098$0.0071₹0.6769$0.0071₹0.6769$0.0071₹0.6769
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$10.51 USD

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Plan prices are monthly, in rupees, excluding GST; yearly billing is two months free. Messages are charged per delivered message on top of the plan, at the rate for the recipient’s country. Full details: InfiQ pricing. The desk that sends a message does not change its price, and a buyer in Nagpur costs the same as one in Paratwada. Growth raises the inbox to 25 users. Invoices carry your Maharashtra GSTIN.

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On InfiQ

What an Achalpur firm runs on InfiQ

The tools behind the router and the address variable.

  • Shared team inbox

    One WhatsApp number answered by a team: 10 users on Lite and 25 on Growth, agent and manager roles, transfers, private notes, labels and canned replies.

    The yard, the counter, dispatch and accounts answer one number, with assignment, transfers and private notes on each grower or shop.

  • InfiQ Flows chatbot builder

    A no-code builder for automated conversations (27 blocks, versioned publishing with rollback), priced per flow; the Growth plan includes one.

    A short menu asks whether the chat is about oranges, cloth, a truck or a payment and labels it before a person picks it up.

  • Template manager and library

    Draft, submit and track WhatsApp message templates for Meta's approval, starting from a library of 1,000+ ready templates in 27 categories.

    Approve one delivery template per language with the address as a variable, so 'Paratwada' and 'Achalpur' need no separate versions.

  • Consent records and opt-out enforcement

    Each contact's opt-in source and time are recorded, STOP replies are enforced at platform level (even against later imports), and the audit trail exports.

    Season offers go only to growers and retailers who agreed, with the source and time of each yes, and STOP replies are enforced.

Nearby

City pages near Achalpur

Neighbouring markets in Vidarbha and across the border in Madhya Pradesh.

Many twin-town firms buy from or sell to these cities; each page looks at its own trades. The India guide covers DPDP, DLT and the rules for the whole country.

Guides for Achalpur teams

Questions Achalpur businesses ask

  1. Q1

    Our Achalpur firm sends mandarin orange crates to buyers in Nagpur and further north. Can the truck number reach them on WhatsApp?

    Yes. A loading note for an order the buyer placed is a utility template at ₹0.19, with variables for the crates, the truck number and the expected arrival. Send it to buyers who agreed to receive order updates; their replies open a 24-hour window for free answers.

  2. Q2

    Customers give our shop addresses in Achalpur, in Paratwada camp and sometimes as Ellichpur. Do we need a delivery template for each name?

    No. Put the address in a variable, and one approved delivery template per language carries whichever name the customer gave. Meta reviews the fixed text, not each value, so the same template works across the twin town at ₹0.19 per delivered message.

  3. Q3

    Our cloth and yarn business on Achalpur's Amravati Road wants to tell retailers about new stock. Who can we send that to?

    Only retailers who agreed to hear about new stock and offers from you. A new-stock announcement is a marketing template at ₹0.94 per delivered message. Retailers who write to ask can be sent photos and prices freely inside the 24-hour window, and InfiQ records each opt-in.

  4. Q4

    Visitors ask our Paratwada travel desk about trips to the Melghat Tiger Reserve. Can the car and driver details go on WhatsApp?

    Yes. A pickup note for a trip the visitor booked is a utility template at ₹0.19, with the driver's name, the car number and the time. The visitor's questions before the trip are replies at ₹0.145 each, because they wrote first.

  5. Q5

    Orange growers write to our Achalpur yard in Marathi and buyers from Madhya Pradesh in Hindi. Do we keep two versions of each template?

    Of the templates you send them, yes: Meta approves Marathi (mr) and Hindi (hi) versions separately, so keep both and pick by the contact's preference. Replies inside the 24-hour window need no template, in either language.

  6. Q6

    Our orange yard in Achalpur and our counter in Paratwada answer the same number. Can each see the chats meant for it?

    Yes. A Flows menu can ask what each chat is about and label it, and in the shared team inbox a manager assigns and transfers conversations between the yard and the counter. Lite gives 10 users and Growth 25, with private notes on each thread.

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Sources

Facts on this page were checked against these sources on the dates shown. Page updated 2026-10-20.

  1. [1]Amravati district: official website · District Administration, Amravati · read 2026-10-20
  2. [2]History · District Administration, Amravati · read 2026-10-20
  3. [3]Tourist Places (Melghat) · District Administration, Amravati · read 2026-10-20
  4. [4]Production units (Finlay Mill, Achalpur) · National Textile Corporation · read 2026-10-20
  5. [5]Achalpur (general history and geography only) · Wikipedia · read 2026-10-20
  6. [6]ODOP product list, V33 (31 December 2025) · Invest India · read 2026-10-20

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