Sambalpuri sari weavers and sellers
Handloom is Bargarh's ODOP product, and the Sambalpuri sari is recorded as having begun here.[1],[3]
- Photos of the weave in reply
- Order and dispatch notes
- Payment reminders to boutiques
Odisha · 21.3° N, 83.6° E
WhatsApp Business API for Bargarh's sari weavers, lodges, caterers and shops
Bargarh is where the Sambalpuri sari is said to have begun, and for a few winter days each year it is Mathura. Its customers write in Odia and Sambalpuri; its templates have to be in Hindi or English.
For the Sambalpuri sari weavers and sellers of Bargarh, whose district's ODOP product is handloom, and for the lodges, caterers and cabs that fill when Dhanu Jatra turns the town into Mathura: how one festival offer passes consent, category, language and approval before it is sent, and what each message costs.
See it work
One Dhanu Jatra room offer, layer by layer
A Bargarh lodge wants to tell past guests that rooms are open for Dhanu Jatra. Drop the offer through each layer it must pass before it reaches a single phone.
The second layer stops most of the list, and that is the point. A guest who only booked a room last winter has not agreed to offers; a guest who said yes has. Sending the offer to the first group would be marketing nobody asked for.
Everything below the consent layer is settled once a year. The 24-hour service window explains what changes when a guest writes back.
What a festival offer passes through
6 / 6
PayloadOffer: rooms for Dhanu Jatra
Enters at the top, travels down through 6 layers
Hop 6 of 6: the payload is in layer 6, The guest's phone. Delivered at ₹0.94. A reply opens a 24-hour window for answers in Odia; a STOP ends the offers.
Bargarh in nine lines
From Invest India's ODOP list and IBEF's Odisha profile; the town's history, festival and railway are general background from Wikipedia, because the district's own website could not be reached.
Bargarh is the headquarters of Bargarh district; it was a subdivision of Sambalpur district before the district was formed.[3]
An eleventh-century inscription gives the place's original name as Bahgar Kota; the Chauhan king Balaram Dev later named it Bargarh.[3]
Old fort walls can still be traced near the Jeera river.[3]
The Sambalpuri sari is recorded as having originated in Bargarh, and the town is called the city of handloom.[3]
Invest India's ODOP list names handloom for Bargarh district, and IBEF lists handloom among Odisha's key industries.[1],[2]
Dhanu Jatra, a winter staging of Krishna Leela, turns the town into Mathura, the Jeera into the Yamuna and Ambapali into Gopapur.[3]
A network of canals from the Mahanadi runs through the area.[3]
Bargarh Road station serves the district on the Jharsuguda–Vizianagaram line, in the Sambalpur railway division.[3]
Who in Bargarh answers on WhatsApp
Four businesses that follow from the looms, the festival, the station and the town's shops.
Lodges and caterers for Dhanu Jatra
Each winter the town becomes Mathura for Dhanu Jatra's staging of Krishna Leela.[3]
- Room and menu replies
- Booking confirmations
- Festival offers to guests who opted in
Cabs and travel desks
Bargarh Road station is on the Jharsuguda–Vizianagaram line, and Dhanu Jatra's Gopapur is Ambapali.[3]
- Fare and train-time replies
- Pickup reminders
- Driver name and vehicle number
Shops of the district headquarters
Bargarh is the headquarters of its district, serving customers who write in Odia and Sambalpuri.[3]
- Stock and price replies
- Order-ready notes
- Offers to customers who opted in
When the town becomes Mathura
Dhanu Jatra is not held in one place. For its days the whole of Bargarh plays Mathura, the Jeera plays the Yamuna and Ambapali plays Gopapur. For a lodge, a caterer or a cab, that means a burst of questions from people who have never written before.
Every one of those questions is cheap to answer. A visitor's message opens a 24-hour window, and the room rate, the menu or the fare go back as replies at the service rate, in Odia, Sambalpuri, Hindi or English. The expensive and risky message is the one the business starts: the offer to last year's guests, which belongs only to those who said yes.
The looms work on a slower clock. A boutique in another city asks for a colour, the weaver sends photos, and weeks later the dispatch note goes as a utility template in Hindi or English, because Odia is not one of Meta's template languages.
Hindi and English templates, Odia and Sambalpuri in the replies
Neither Odia nor Sambalpuri is on Meta's list of template languages. Hindi and English are, and each is a separate template under the same name.
Each version must be approved before it is sent. Replies need no template, so staff answer in Odia, Sambalpuri or whatever a customer writes; InfiQ's own support works in English and Hindi.
| Language | Meta code | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | hi | Festival visitors and sari buyers from other states |
| English | en | Booking notes, bills and dispatch notes |
| English (India) | en_IN | Boutiques' and buyers' offices elsewhere in India |
Prices in ₹, with USD and EUR
What a Dhanu Jatra season costs a Bargarh lodge to message
Lite at ₹999 a month or Growth at ₹2,999, then each delivered message at the India rate: ₹0.145 for a reply to a visitor who wrote, ₹0.19 for a booking or dispatch note, ₹0.94 for an offer to guests who opted in and ₹0.14 for a passcode.
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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Growth
₹2,999 / month≈ $31.55 USD
₹2,499 / month, billed yearly≈ $26.29 USD
Lite, plus the API, automation and team scale serious senders need.
Enterprise
Custom volume pricing, custom SLA and dedicated infrastructure.
Per message to Bargarh · India
| Category | ₹ INR | USD |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Market | Marketing | Utility | Authentication | Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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. A visitor from Bhubaneswar or Raipur on an Indian number costs the same India rate as a customer in Bargarh. Invoices are in rupees and carry your Odisha GSTIN.
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What a Bargarh business runs on InfiQ
Matched to the layers above.
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.
The guest book is split into guests who said yes to offers and guests who did not; each yes is stored with its date and source, and STOP is enforced.
Learn moreInfiQ Flows chatbot builder
During Dhanu Jatra an InfiQ Flows menu can answer room, menu and fare questions at any hour and pass bookings to staff.
Template manager and library
The festival offer, the booking note and the weavers' dispatch note are written once in Hindi and English and approved before the season.
Nearby
City pages around Bargarh
Neighbouring markets in western Odisha and Chhattisgarh, on the map.
Brajarajnagar, in neighbouring Jharsuguda district, has its own page about coal and transport; this one stays with Bargarh's looms, festival and shops. The India guide covers DPDP, DLT and the rules for the whole country.
Guides for Bargarh teams
Questions Bargarh businesses ask
- Buyers ask our Bargarh handloom unit about Sambalpuri saris in Odia. Can our order and dispatch templates be in Odia?
- No. Odia is not on Meta's list of template languages, so templates must be in Hindi (hi) or English (en or en_IN). A buyer's own message opens a 24-hour window, and inside it your staff can answer in Odia at ₹0.145 per reply, with no template.
- Our Bargarh lodge fills when the town becomes Mathura for Dhanu Jatra. Can we send last winter's guests a room offer?
- Only the guests who agreed to hear about offers. A room offer is a marketing template at ₹0.94, approved in Hindi or English. A guest who only booked a room has not said yes; ask at checkout, and InfiQ records when and where each yes was given.
- Groups going between Bargarh and Ambapali during Dhanu Jatra ask our cab service about rides. Is answering them marketing?
- No. They asked, so the fare, the pickup point and the timing are replies at ₹0.145 each, in whatever language they wrote. A pickup reminder for a ride they booked, sent the next day, is a utility template at ₹0.19.
- We sell Bargarh's Sambalpuri saris to boutiques in other cities. Can the invoice PDF go with the dispatch note?
- Yes. A dispatch note for an order the boutique placed is a utility template at ₹0.19, with the invoice PDF in its header and the parcel number as a variable. Meta prices by the recipient's country calling code, so a boutique on a +91 number costs the India rate.
- Passengers ask our Bargarh travel desk about trains from Bargarh Road on the Jharsuguda–Vizianagaram line. Can a menu answer at night?
- Yes. An InfiQ Flows menu can answer train and fare questions automatically and hand bookings to staff in the morning. Each answer to a passenger who wrote is a reply at ₹0.145, and it needs no template.
- Customers write to our Bargarh shop in Sambalpuri. Can our staff reply in Sambalpuri?
- Yes. Replies inside the 24-hour window are not templates, so staff can answer in Sambalpuri, Odia or any language at ₹0.145 each. Only messages the shop starts after the window closes must be approved templates, in Hindi or English.
Sources
Facts on this page were checked against these sources on the dates shown. Page updated 2026-10-20.
- [1]ODOP product list, V33 (31 December 2025) · Invest India · read 2026-10-21
- [2]Odisha: state profile · India Brand Equity Foundation · read 2026-10-21
- [3]Bargarh (general history only) · Wikipedia · read 2026-10-21
- [4]WhatsApp Business Platform: pricing · Meta for Developers · read 2026-10-21
- [5]WhatsApp Business Platform: getting opt-in · Meta for Developers · read 2026-10-21
- [6]Message templates: supported languages · Meta for Developers · read 2026-10-21
- [7]WhatsApp Business Management API: message templates · Meta for Developers · read 2026-10-21
Get Bargarh's Dhanu Jatra templates approved early
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