WhatsApp Business API for Tonk's slate units, hotels and fair-week trade
Tonk was a Nawabi state until it joined Rajasthan in 1948, and its Nawab gathered a great library of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. Today its slate goes to builders and its fairs fill the calendar, and both run on messages.
For Tonk's slate stone units, hotels, guides and fair-week traders: which of the messages they send are replies, utility, marketing or authentication on the official WhatsApp Business API, which templates to write in Hindi or Urdu, and what each costs in rupees.
See it work
Which Tonk message is which
Meta prices and approves every message by its category. Focus a cell to see why a slate unit's, a hotel's or a fair stall's message falls where it does.
The test is simple. If the customer wrote to you in the last 24 hours, you can answer freely and pay the service rate. If you are writing first, or later, you need an approved template, and its category depends on what it says: an update about something the customer already bought or booked is utility, anything that sells is marketing.
The 24-hour service window explains the reply rule; the rates for each category are in the pricing block below.
Five Tonk messages, sorted by Meta's rules
| Category | Template needed? | Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slate tile photos, after a builder asks | |||
| Dispatch notice for a slate order | |||
| Jaldevi fair-week offer to past customers | |||
| Room confirmation for a Bisalpur visitor | |||
| Login passcode for a buyer's order portal |
Hover, tap or arrow-key through the cells — a dot in the corner means there is a note.
Login passcode for a buyer's order portal by Template needed?
Yes
Meta's fixed passcode format
Legend — press one to highlight its cells
Row 5 of 5. Login passcode for a buyer's order portal × Template needed?: Yes. Meta's fixed passcode format
Market brief
Tonk in seven lines
From Rajasthan Tourism's Tonk page, Invest India's ODOP list and IBEF's Rajasthan profile.
- 01
The modern town of Tonk was founded by Nawab Amir Khan; formerly a princely state, it became part of Rajasthan in 1948.[1]
- 02
The Nawab built a large library of Persian and Arabic manuscripts, and the Arabic and Persian Research Institute in central Tonk houses some of the oldest such collections, with an art gallery started in 2002.[1]
- 03
Sunehri Kothi, a 19th-century mansion near Bada Kuan on Najar Bagh Road known for its gold tones and glasswork, has been declared an important historical monument by the state.[1]
- 04
The Bisalpur dam, a gravity dam on the Banas near Deoli completed in 1999, supplies water to around half the areas under the Jaipur Municipal Corporation.[1]
- 05
Fairs fill the district's year: three days at the Jaldevi temple at Chaitra Purnima, Bori Vishal at Natwada on Akshaya Tritiya, and fairs at the Dhanna Bhagat gurudwara and Har Bhanwta ashram.[1]
- 06
Invest India's One District One Product list names slate stone products for Tonk.[2]
- 07
Rajasthan contributes significantly to India's dimensional and decorative stones, and marble and handicrafts are among its key industries.[3]
Industries
Who in Tonk starts first
Three kinds of business in the town and district, and the messages that fit each.
- 01
- 02
Hotels, guides and taxis
Sunehri Kothi, the stone elephant of Hathi Bhata, the manuscript institute and the Bisalpur dam draw visitors; the nearest airport is Jaipur's, 94 km away.[1]
On WhatsApp: Room and car booking confirmations · Pickup times from Jaipur airport · Day-trip notes to opted-in past guests
- 03
Fair-week traders and caterers
The Jaldevi, Bori Vishal and Dhanna Bhagat fairs bring crowds on fixed days, and stalls and caterers take orders before them.[1]
On WhatsApp: Stall and order confirmations · Fair-day timing notes · Offers to customers who opted in
Hindi, Urdu and English templates
All three are Meta template languages, each version approved separately; keep an Urdu version for customers who read it.
Inside the 24-hour window, replies can be in Hindi, Urdu, a local dialect or any language your staff write. InfiQ's own support works in English and Hindi.
| Language | Meta code | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | hi | Most customers, guests and fair-goers in the district |
| Urdu | ur | Customers in the old Nawabi town who read Urdu |
| English (India) | en_IN | Architects, builders' offices and visitors from cities |
Prices in ₹, with USD and EUR
What each Tonk message costs
A plan from ₹999 a month, then each delivered message at the India rate: ₹0.145 for a reply, ₹0.19 for a dispatch notice or booking confirmation, ₹0.94 for a fair-week offer 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
Everything a growing business needs to run WhatsApp properly.
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 Tonk · 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. These are the four rates in the matrix above. Invoices are in rupees with your Rajasthan GSTIN.
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What a Tonk business runs on InfiQ
Matched to the five messages in the matrix.
- 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.
Draft the dispatch, booking and fair-week templates from the library, in Hindi and Urdu, and track each through Meta's approval and category check.
- 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.
Fair-week and day-trip offers go only to customers who opted in, with the source and time of each opt-in kept and STOP replies enforced.
- 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 office and the owner can answer one number together, so a builder's question about slate never waits for the one person who knows the stock.
Nearby
Around Tonk, on the map
City pages for neighbouring markets in Rajasthan.
Jaipur has its own page, about the capital's own trades; this one stays with Tonk's slate, hotels and fairs. The India guide covers DPDP, DLT and the rules for the whole country.
Guides for Tonk teams
Questions Tonk businesses ask
Question: Our slate stone unit in Tonk sends builders photos of tiles after they ask. Do those photos need an approved template?
Answer: No, if the builder wrote to you in the last 24 hours. Photos, sizes and prices inside that window are ordinary replies at ₹0.145 each, and any new message from the builder restarts the 24 hours. If you are writing first after a phone call, start with an approved template.
Question: During the three-day Jaldevi fair at Chaitra Purnima our stall takes many orders. Can several of us answer one WhatsApp number?
Answer: Yes. The shared team inbox gives 10 users on Lite and 25 on Growth, with transfers, labels and private notes, so everyone at the stall and at home can answer the same number through the fair without promising the same thing twice.
Question: Visitors to the Bisalpur dam ask our hotel near Deoli for directions. Can we send a map link before they arrive?
Answer: Yes. If the guest wrote in the last 24 hours, a map link and directions are an ordinary reply. If they booked earlier, send a utility template with the address, the check-in time and the map link at ₹0.19, and answer their follow-up questions inside the window.
Question: Many of our customers near Sunehri Kothi read Urdu. Can our WhatsApp templates be in Urdu?
Answer: Yes. Urdu (ur) is a Meta template language, approved separately from the Hindi and English versions. Keep the same template in all three and send each customer the one they read; replies inside the window can be in Urdu without a template.
Question: Our guide service shows visitors Hathi Bhata and the Arabic and Persian Research Institute. Can we send past visitors a new day-trip offer?
Answer: Yes, to past visitors who agreed to hear from you. A day-trip offer is a marketing template at ₹0.94 per delivered message. A pickup reminder for a trip a visitor has already booked is utility at ₹0.19.
Question: Builders fly into Jaipur's Sanganer airport, 94 km from Tonk, to inspect our slate. Can we send them pickup details automatically?
Answer: Yes. A pickup notice for a visit the builder has arranged is a utility template at ₹0.19, with the driver's name, the car number and the time. Your booking sheet can trigger it through InfiQ's developer API, included on Growth, or staff can send it from the inbox.
Sources
Facts on this page were checked against these sources on the dates shown. Page updated 2026-10-20.
- [1]Tonk · Rajasthan Tourism, Government of Rajasthan · read 2026-10-20
- [2]ODOP product list, V33 (31 December 2025) · Invest India · read 2026-10-20
- [3]Rajasthan: state profile (updated July 2026) · India Brand Equity Foundation · read 2026-10-20
Sort Tonk's messages before you send them
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