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title: "WhatsApp Marketing Guide: Free PDF"
description: "A free guide to WhatsApp marketing messages on Meta's Cloud API: set-up, messaging limits, campaign management and measurement, in 29 pages."
url: https://getrapio.com/resources/whatsapp-marketing-guide/
updated: 2026-10-01
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PDF · 29 pages · 4 parts · Updated 1 October 2026

[Resources](https://getrapio.com/resources/) › Marketing guide

# WhatsApp marketing guide: end-to-end campaign management

A free guide for marketing teams sending WhatsApp marketing messages on Meta's Cloud API: how to set up, grow your sending limits, run campaigns and measure the results.

## What's inside

Four parts, one path: from the first set-up step to reading the results of a campaign.

### 01 Preparation and getting started

Before the first marketing message there are eight things to get right, and two of them take weeks. The guide walks through each one in order.

- The sectors Meta's Commerce Policy keeps off the channel
- The Meta Business Account, the WhatsApp Business Account and the payment method
- Your first message template, and the consent Meta requires

### 02 Growing the limits

Every account starts at 250 people a day. How that number grows to 2,000, 10,000, 100,000 and unlimited, and what keeps it from growing.

- What the messaging limit actually counts
- Two routes to 2,000, and the two conditions after it
- Template quality, number quality and the template limit

### 03 Campaign management

Segment, offer and message have to fit each other. Then each part of the message has one job, and Meta's review has its own rules.

- The anatomy of a marketing message
- Six common reasons templates are rejected, and six habits that help
- Action buttons and opt-out

### 04 Measurement

Each button leaves its trace somewhere different. Where to read the result of a website link, an offer code and a quick reply.

- The four numbers Meta reports for every template
- UTM links, and why Meta's clicks and GA4's sessions never match
- A measurement plan to choose before you send

Free PDF, 29 pages

Everything above, with every figure, in one file you can share with your team.