Groups

The WhatsApp API lets you create and manage groups, and send messages to them.

Groups are invite-only: when you create a group, an invite link (invite_link) is generated for you to share with users, who then decide whether to join. You can't add participants directly.

• Only eligible phone numbers can create groups: the number must be an Official Business Account (OBA), be integrated with the Cloud API (not the WhatsApp Business app, Coexistence, or Multi-solution Conversations), and have a messaging limit of at least 100,000 business-initiated conversations in a 24-hour period.
• Each group supports a maximum of 8 participants.
• Each phone number can create up to 10,000 groups.
• There is no endpoint to add participants directly: users always join by invitation. A user who is removed from a group can't rejoin that same group.
• WhatsApp groups only support text messages, media messages, text-based templates, and media-based templates.

For the notifications related to group management (creation, deletion, participant changes, settings, and so on), see Group notifications.

The group management endpoints (create, delete, list, and so on) use the admin token. To send, pin or unpin messages in a group, use the messaging token. See Generate authentication token.

Pages in this section:

• Manage groups: create, list, query, update and delete groups.
• Participants and invitations: invite link, join requests and participant removal.

To send, pin or unpin messages in a group, see Messaging → Group messages.