WhatsApp Templates API

13. Rate limits

Public Developer API for Meta template lifecycle on Cloud WhatsApp accounts. Same Meta engine as the Washeej dashboard. Access requires explicit template scopes; Device/QR management is rejected. Provider Meta delete stays deferred.

1. Overview

2. Authentication & scopes

3. Account capabilities

4. Validate a template

5. Create and submit

6. List and inspect status

7. Sync

8. Edit

9. Delete

10. Send approved template

11. Status webhooks

12. Error codes

13. Rate limits

14. Idempotency

15. Migration from /templates/send

Account auth: 120 req/min (shared by /v1 and /external-api) → 429 rate_limit_exceeded with Retry-After: 60. Template writes are additionally throttled per tenant → 429 rate_limited. Sync is rate limited.