What is WhatsApp number warm-up?
Definition
Warm-up is the practice of raising a newly linked number's sending volume gradually over its first days instead of starting at full speed. Wapito enforces it with a ladder: a low cap on day zero that rises each day until the plan's normal ceiling takes over, and the ladder is never bypassed for paying customers.
In more depth
A brand-new WhatsApp number that sends a thousand messages on its first day is indistinguishable from a spammer, because that is exactly what spammers do with the disposable numbers they buy. The abuse systems weight recency heavily, so the same volume that is unremarkable from a two-year-old business line will get a day-old line banned. Warming up is the cheapest insurance there is: send tens of messages on the first day, a few hundred by the middle of the week, and full volume only after the number has accumulated real two-way conversations. Wapito implements this as a hard ladder counted from the moment the number was first connected, and a banned premium number helps nobody, so there is no paid exemption from it. Reconnecting an existing number keeps its position on the ladder; linking a different phone number starts a new one from day zero. The most valuable warm-up traffic is genuine inbound conversation, so seed the number with real replies rather than with messages to yourself.
In the Wapito API
On the wire it is the field warmup_day:
{
"warmup_day": 2,
"daily_cap": 200,
"sent_today": 41
}On the official Cloud API
Meta runs its own quality-based tiering, where a phone number's messaging limit rises as it maintains good quality, so the underlying idea of earning volume over time is not unique to unofficial APIs.
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