What is a channel in Wapito?

In more depth

The word is overloaded in the WhatsApp world, so it is worth being precise. A Wapito channel is an account-level object, roughly what other tools call a session, an instance or a number. When you create one you get a token that works for that channel and no other, which is why no endpoint takes a channel id in its path: the token already says which channel you mean. Pairing links a real phone to the channel, and from then on the channel has a status you can read and subscribe to. Quotas, the warm-up ladder, send spacing and the cold-send guard are all tracked per channel, so a staging channel cannot exhaust the production one's allowance and a new number always starts its warm-up from day zero even if your account is old. Deleting a channel revokes its token and releases the linked-device slot on the phone. The other meaning of channel - WhatsApp's own broadcast feature - is called a newsletter in the protocol and has its own endpoints in Wapito.

In the Wapito API

On the wire it is the field status:

{
  "status": "connected",
  "phone": "441234567890",
  "engine": "gows"
}

On the official Cloud API

Meta's equivalent unit is a phone number id inside a WhatsApp Business Account, which is registered with Meta rather than paired from a phone and cannot be used in the WhatsApp app afterwards.

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Related terms

• Session
• Pairing code
• Sandbox

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