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WhatsApp Business API for Indian suppliers and teams working with Toulouse

Toulouse is Airbus's headquarters city and home to a CNES space centre, and Indian suppliers meet its buyers at AEROMART. The same city holds students from India. On WhatsApp they are two different conversations.

From New Delhi
≈6,770 km
Toulouse clock
3 h 30 min behind India
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Dashed arc: the great-circle route from New Delhi to Toulouse.
Region
Occitanie (regional prefecture)
Country
France
Department
Haute-Garonne (31)
Population
514,819 in the commune (2023 census)[1]
Clock
CET, and CEST (UTC+2) from late March to late October[6]
Billing
₹ from InfiQ; € figures are indicative

For Indian aerospace, engineering and space firms with buyers in Toulouse, and education teams with students there: how a message to a supplier contact differs from one to a student, what French consent rules ask, which templates to write, when to send on Toulouse time, and the cost in rupees.

See it work

A buyer from AEROMART or a student from India?

Most Indian senders to Toulouse write to one of two people. Compare what changes, row by row, before you write your first template.

Get the left column wrong and a buyer receives a sales pitch they never asked for on a channel they use for colleagues. Get the right column wrong and a student's loan update is billed at the wrong rate or arrives at three in the morning.

Both threads run through the developer API when a request, an order or a file changes state, and both land in the shared team inbox, split by label.

Two Toulouse contacts, side by side

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Supplier contact met at AEROMART

A +33 number and a professional relationship

Student from India in Toulouse

A +33 or a +91 number and a personal one

  1. Supplier contact met at AEROMARTA reply to the question they sent you, or a utility template about their request for quote
    Student from India in ToulouseA utility template from your admissions, loan or housing desk about their own file
  2. Supplier contact met at AEROMARTThe CNIL's professional rule is written for email; on WhatsApp, Meta's opt-in still applies
    Student from India in ToulousePrior, specific consent; no pre-ticked box and no consent buried in the terms
  3. Supplier contact met at AEROMARTFrench (fr), or English (en) if they write in English
    Student from India in ToulouseEnglish (en) or Hindi (hi)
  4. Supplier contact met at AEROMARTFrance, on Meta's rate card
    Student from India in ToulouseFrance for a +33 number, India for a +91 number
  5. Supplier contact met at AEROMARTToulouse office hours: the Indian afternoon
    Student from India in ToulouseToulouse evenings: the Indian night
  6. Supplier contact met at AEROMARTThe account manager, from the shared inbox
    Student from India in ToulouseThe student desk, with transfers to a night shift

Verdict

Same city, same API: the relationship decides the category, and the country code decides the price.

The API, the templates and the inbox are the same for both. What differs is the relationship, which decides the category and the consent you need, and the number, which decides the rate.

Verdict: Same city, same API: the relationship decides the category, and the country code decides the price.

Why an Indian supplier ends up writing to Toulouse

The city's aerospace and space institutions, the events that bring buyers and suppliers together, and the India–France numbers behind the student thread.

Toulouse is the headquarters city of Airbus and hosts CNES's Toulouse Space Centre; it is the prefecture of Haute-Garonne and of Occitanie.[5]

Aerospace Valley, the aeronautics, space and drones cluster for Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, has offices in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Rochefort and Bayonne.[2]

AEROMART Toulouse runs on 1–3 December 2026 at MEETT, listing 800 exhibitors, 1,200 companies, 5,000 participants and 40 countries; the same series runs Aeromart Hyderabad.[3]

Industry accounted for 13.0% of salaried jobs in the commune of Toulouse at the end of 2024, 45,572 of 349,860.[1]

India's Consulate General in Marseille, inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi and President Macron in February 2025, estimates about 10,000 Indian students in France, against a target of 30,000 by 2030.[4]

The same brief describes more than fifty years of ISRO–CNES cooperation and a joint declaration on future launch-vehicle technologies.[4]

Indian businesses with Toulouse contacts

The readers this page is written for, and their first message to a +33 number.

Aerospace suppliers and MRO

Indian parts makers and engineering firms meet Toulouse buyers at AEROMART and keep the thread going between visits.[3],[2]

  • Request-for-quote acknowledgement
  • First-article and shipment notices
  • Visit and audit scheduling

Space and engineering services

With ISRO and CNES cooperating for decades, Indian space and engineering firms often have partners at Toulouse's space institutions.[4],[5]

  • Milestone and document-ready alerts
  • Meeting confirmations across two clocks
  • Test-campaign logistics

Admissions, loans and student services

With a target of 30,000 Indian students in France by 2030, the desks in India that manage each student's file need a channel the student reads.[4]

  • Offer and visa-document reminders
  • Disbursement notices
  • Housing and arrival details

Prices in ₹ and EUR

What a message to a Toulouse number costs

+33 numbers are billed at France's line on Meta's rate card: ₹2.64 for a utility template, ₹7.56 for marketing, ₹2.64 for authentication and ₹2.64 for a service reply, in rupees before GST. Plans start at ₹999 a month.

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

Lite

₹999 / month≈ €9.38 EUR

₹833 / month, billed yearly≈ €7.83 EUR

Growth

₹2,999 / month≈ €28.17 EUR

₹2,499 / month, billed yearly≈ €23.48 EUR

Enterprise

Custom volume pricing, custom SLA and dedicated infrastructure.

Per message to Toulouse · France

InfiQ per-message rates for Toulouse in rupees and EUR
Category₹ INREUR
Marketing₹7.5588€0.0710
Utility₹2.6393€0.0248
Authentication₹2.6393€0.0248
Service₹2.6393€0.0248
Per-message rates for all 47 markets, in ₹ and EUR
Per-message rates by market, effective 1 October 2026
MarketMarketingUtilityAuthenticationService
Argentina€0.0511₹5.4352€0.0215₹2.2874€0.0215₹2.2874€0.0215₹2.2874
Bangladesh€0.0605₹6.4397€0.0031₹0.3254€0.0031₹0.3254€0.0031₹0.3254
Brazil€0.0516₹5.4970€0.0056₹0.5981€0.0056₹0.5981€0.0056₹0.5981
Chile€0.0734₹7.8162€0.0165₹1.7585€0.0165₹1.7585€0.0165₹1.7585
Colombia€0.0103₹1.0993€0.0007₹0.0706€0.0007₹0.0706€0.0007₹0.0706
Egypt€0.0532₹5.6629€0.0030₹0.3167€0.0030₹0.3167€0.0030₹0.3167
France€0.0710₹7.5588€0.0248₹2.6393€0.0248₹2.6393€0.0248₹2.6393
Germany€0.113₹12.0088€0.0455₹4.8386€0.0455₹4.8386€0.0455₹4.8386
Hong Kong€0.0605₹6.4397€0.0215₹2.2867€0.0215₹2.2867€0.0215₹2.2867
Hungary€0.0710₹7.5596€0.0288₹3.0700€0.0288₹3.0700€0.0288₹3.0700
India€0.0089₹0.9435€0.0018₹0.1941€0.0013₹0.1402€0.0014₹0.1450
Indonesia€0.0339₹3.6133€0.0206₹2.1979€0.0206₹2.1979€0.0206₹2.1979
Iraq€0.0282₹2.9992€0.0065₹0.6943€0.0065₹0.6943€0.0065₹0.6943
Israel€0.0292₹3.1045€0.0044₹0.4662€0.0044₹0.4662€0.0044₹0.4662
Italy€0.0656₹6.9847€0.0248₹2.6369€0.0248₹2.6369€0.0248₹2.6369
Kazakhstan€0.0499₹5.3098€0.0149₹1.5824€0.0149₹1.5824€0.0149₹1.5824
Kuwait€0.0654₹6.9671€0.0363₹3.8671€0.0363₹3.8671€0.0363₹3.8671
Malaysia€0.0711₹7.5644€0.0116₹1.2314€0.0116₹1.2314€0.0116₹1.2314
Mexico€0.0328₹3.4877€0.0070₹0.7471€0.0070₹0.7471€0.0070₹0.7471
Morocco€0.0342₹3.6425€0.0190₹2.0218€0.0190₹2.0218€0.0190₹2.0218
Netherlands€0.132₹14.0494€0.0413₹4.3987€0.0413₹4.3987€0.0413₹4.3987
Nepal€0.0605₹6.4397€0.0028₹0.2990€0.0028₹0.2990€0.0028₹0.2990
Nigeria€0.0427₹4.5421€0.0055₹0.5898€0.0055₹0.5898€0.0055₹0.5898
Oman€0.0282₹2.9992€0.0204₹2.1709€0.0204₹2.1709€0.0204₹2.1709
Pakistan€0.0391₹4.1620€0.0124₹1.3200€0.0124₹1.3200€0.0124₹1.3200
Peru€0.0581₹6.1843€0.0248₹2.6392€0.0248₹2.6392€0.0248₹2.6392
Poland€0.0302₹3.2105€0.0101₹1.0702€0.0101₹1.0702€0.0101₹1.0702
Qatar€0.0282₹2.9992€0.0099₹1.0547€0.0099₹1.0547€0.0099₹1.0547
Romania€0.0710₹7.5596€0.0239₹2.5436€0.0239₹2.5436€0.0239₹2.5436
Russia€0.0662₹7.0520€0.0330₹3.5173€0.0330₹3.5173€0.0330₹3.5173
Saudi Arabia€0.0475₹5.0537€0.0088₹0.9401€0.0088₹0.9401€0.0088₹0.9401
Singapore€0.0605₹6.4397€0.0132₹1.4072€0.0132₹1.4072€0.0132₹1.4072
South Africa€0.0314₹3.3385€0.0079₹0.8369€0.0079₹0.8369€0.0079₹0.8369
Spain€0.0584₹6.2161€0.0165₹1.7578€0.0165₹1.7578€0.0165₹1.7578
Sri Lanka€0.0605₹6.4397€0.0017₹0.1759€0.0017₹0.1759€0.0017₹0.1759
Turkey€0.0090₹0.9587€0.0007₹0.0792€0.0007₹0.0792€0.0007₹0.0792
Ukraine€0.0710₹7.5596€0.0246₹2.6138€0.0246₹2.6138€0.0246₹2.6138
United Arab Emirates€0.0475₹5.0537€0.0130₹1.3811€0.0130₹1.3811€0.0130₹1.3811
United Kingdom€0.0524₹5.5795€0.0182₹1.9346€0.0182₹1.9346€0.0182₹1.9346
North America€0.0206₹2.1976€0.0028₹0.2989€0.0028₹0.2989€0.0028₹0.2989
Rest of Africa€0.0186₹1.9796€0.0033₹0.3516€0.0033₹0.3516€0.0033₹0.3516
Rest of Asia Pacific€0.0696₹7.4057€0.0093₹0.9938€0.0093₹0.9938€0.0093₹0.9938
Rest of Central & Eastern Europe€0.0710₹7.5596€0.0175₹1.8595€0.0175₹1.8595€0.0175₹1.8595
Rest of Latin America€0.0611₹6.5048€0.0093₹0.9934€0.0093₹0.9934€0.0093₹0.9934
Rest of Middle East€0.0324₹3.4490€0.0075₹0.7998€0.0075₹0.7998€0.0075₹0.7998
Rest of Western Europe€0.0489₹5.2054€0.0141₹1.5019€0.0141₹1.5019€0.0141₹1.5019
Other€0.0499₹5.3098€0.0064₹0.6769€0.0064₹0.6769€0.0064₹0.6769
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€9.38 EUR

Indicative conversion at reference rates (ExchangeRate-API snapshot). InfiQ sets and invoices prices in Indian rupees, excluding GST; your bank’s rate on the day you pay will differ. Rates By Exchange Rate API.

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 student still on a +91 number is billed at the India rate, ₹0.19 for the same notice. Euro amounts in the converter are indicative; InfiQ invoices in rupees, with GST for Indian businesses.

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What an Indian team uses for Toulouse

The parts of InfiQ that matter when one number serves buyers and students in the same city.

  1. Template manager and library

    Keep RFQ, shipment and visit templates in fr and en, and student-file templates in en and hi, each tracked through Meta's approval.

  2. Consent records and opt-out enforcement

    Each Toulouse contact's opt-in source and time is stored, so a buyer who agreed at AEROMART and one who did not are never mixed up.

  3. Shared team inbox

    Labels split buyer and student threads; roles and transfers let the day desk hand a Toulouse evening to the night shift.

Nearby

City pages near Toulouse

Other city guides in France and its neighbours, nearest first.

The French consent rules and the France rate apply from Toulouse to Lille; the France guide covers them once.

Guides for Toulouse teams

Questions Toulouse businesses ask

We exhibit at AEROMART Toulouse in December. Can buyers who visited our stand get a WhatsApp follow-up?
If a buyer scanned your stand's QR code and wrote to you, you can answer freely for 24 hours and send utility templates about what they asked for. A general follow-up with your capability deck is marketing: get their opt-in to WhatsApp messages at the stand, record it, and send an approved template, ₹7.56 each to a +33 number.
During AEROMART week at MEETT, what time should our follow-ups leave India to land at 9:00 in Toulouse?
At 13:30 IST. AEROMART runs on 1–3 December, after France has left summer time, so Toulouse is four and a half hours behind India. Between late March and late October the same 9:00 send leaves India at 12:30 IST.
A Toulouse buyer asked for our quote on WhatsApp. Is sending the quote a marketing message?
No. Their message opens a 24-hour window, and your reply with the quote inside it is a service reply, charged per message. If the window has closed, send a utility template about their request, ₹2.64 to a +33 number, and the conversation reopens when they reply.
Should notices to Toulouse aerospace buyers be in French or English?
Use French (fr) for French buyers and keep an English (en) version for international teams and for anyone who writes to you in English. Each language version is a separate template that Meta approves on its own, so submit both before AEROMART rather than during it.
Indian students in Toulouse often switch to French +33 numbers. Which rate do we pay for their updates?
Meta charges by the recipient's country code. A student on a +33 number is billed at France's rate, ₹2.64 for a utility template; a student, or a parent, on a +91 number is billed at the India rate, ₹0.19. Store the country code with every number so your costs are known in advance.
We are an engineering firm registered in Toulouse with an Indian parent. Which company should hold the InfiQ account?
InfiQ serves India-based businesses: it bills in rupees with GST and keeps customer data in India, so the Indian parent is the natural account holder and can message Toulouse numbers at France's rate. If the account must belong to the business based in Toulouse, talk to sales about whether InfiQ fits.
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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]Dossier complet: Commune de Toulouse (31555) · INSEE · read 2026-10-20
  2. [2]Aerospace Valley: home page · Aerospace Valley · read 2026-10-20
  3. [3]AEROMART Toulouse 2026 (1–3 December, MEETT) · AEROMART Toulouse · read 2026-10-20
  4. [4]India–France Bilateral Brief · Consulate General of India, Marseille · read 2026-10-20
  5. [5]Toulouse (general facts: Airbus, CNES, prefecture) · Wikipedia · read 2026-10-20
  6. [6]tzdb 'europe' file: Europe/Paris and EU daylight-saving rules · IANA Time Zone Database · read 2026-10-20

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