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# From Meta 

Meta has recently started offering WhatsApp APIs directly (which otherwise used to take place via their dealers)

Benefit of getting WhatsApp API from Meta is that it guarantees 100% uptime and no overhead costs on session messaging. Dealers do add a small margine while charging users for session consumption.

The whole process of obtaining WhatsApp Business APIs from Meta can be divided into 4 steps;

1. Creating a Facebook App
2. Adding the phone number
3. Generating permanent token
4. Configuring the webhook on Buraq