r/WhatsappBusinessAPI rules, stats, and what to post

This is an unofficial forum for people who use and build on Meta's Whatsapp Business API. The description names two groups, users and developers, so you will find people setting up business messaging alongside people writing code against the API. The rules tell you a lot about who shows up too. There is a market for selling accounts, hashes, phone number sessions, and virtual numbers, and the moderators spend their energy keeping that trade either out or tightly controlled. So the room is really two rooms in one, a genuine technical help forum, and a place the moderators work hard to keep from turning into a marketplace.

Three rules decide everything here. “No unofficial service selling” bans selling hash access, phone number sessions, and virtual numbers, and it says repeat offenders get banned from the sub, not just their posts removed. “Account selling will require image proof” allows account sales in one narrow case, and only with a screenshot of a browser window showing two tabs, one being the Facebook BM business info page with the middle numbers and name blurred but the first three and last three digits visible, the other being your own Reddit profile page. “No DM requests on “Solution only” flair” means that when a post carries the solution only flair, you cannot comment anything about taking the conversation to DMs.

Post like a user or developer of the API, because that is who the description says belongs here. A good post is a specific technical question about your setup, a walkthrough of a problem you solved, or a clear answer to someone else's thread, all kept public. If you are a founder, share what you learned while building on the API, like an integration fix or a gotcha you hit, and let that be the whole post. If you ever need to sell an account, follow “Account selling will require image proof” to the letter, with both tabs visible in one browser screenshot and the required digits showing. When you help someone on a solution only post, write the full answer in the comments and never mention DMs.

The fastest way out is posting any kind of unofficial service sale, meaning hash selling, phone number session selling, or virtual number selling, because those posts are removed and doing it repeatedly gets you banned. The second trap is selling an account without the exact image proof the rule demands, or with a screenshot that hides too much, since the rule requires the first three and last three digits of the BM identifier to stay visible. The third trap is replying to a solution only post with any mention of DMs, which the rule bans outright. In short, sell nothing unofficial, prove everything official, and keep answers in public comments.

The two tab screenshot rule is the most specific proof requirement I have seen in any of these guides, and it tells you the moderators here have been burned by fake sellers before. I also like the solution only flair, because it shows the community wants answers kept public where everyone can read them. If you market around this API, treat those two rules as the whole rulebook and you will be fine.