Campaigns and marketing
Conversation-based pricing
Conversation-based pricing was Meta's earlier WhatsApp billing model, which charged for a 24-hour conversation window rather than for each individual message.
Also calledconversation pricing
Under it, a conversation was opened by the first message and covered everything sent within the following 24 hours, priced by category. Meta has since moved to charging per delivered template message. When you are quoted a price, check which of the two it refers to.
Worth knowing alongside it.
- Per-message pricing
- Per-message pricing is Meta's current WhatsApp billing model, which charges for each delivered template message according to its category and the recipient's country.
- Conversation window
- The conversation window is the period, 24 hours on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, during which a business may send free-form messages after a customer's most recent message.
- Template category
- Template category is Meta's classification of a WhatsApp template as marketing, utility, or authentication, which determines both what it may contain and what it costs.