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WhatsApp business software — India

WhatsApp business software for India

For a great many Indian businesses WhatsApp is not a channel bolted onto the business — it is where the business happens. The catalogue, the order, the payment link, the complaint and the follow-up all live in one thread, very often on the owner's personal number, which works beautifully until there are two people trying to answer it.

Two things have changed underneath that. Meta moved the WhatsApp Business Platform from conversation-based to per-message pricing on 1 July 2025, with separate rates for marketing, utility and authentication templates and no charge for utility templates sent inside an open customer service window — so the difference between a utility message and a marketing one is now a line on an invoice. And India's Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were notified in November 2025 with a phased compliance clock running behind them.

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Before anything else

Chatori is in early access, not general availability, and it is being built in the open. It also does not make you DPDP-compliant — no product does. Compliance is a set of decisions about consent, retention, notices and deletion that you make and that software then has to support; a vendor selling 'DPDP-compliant messaging' as a feature is describing a checkbox, not a legal position. And your WhatsApp messaging costs are Meta's, charged on Meta's per-message rates: we are a system you run on that platform, not a reseller pretending those rates do not exist.

India — what is actually different

The things that change the work here

  1. Messages are priced individually now

    Since 1 July 2025 the platform charges per message rather than per 24-hour conversation, and template category decides the rate. Utility templates sent while a customer service window is open are not charged. The consequence is unglamorous but real: how your system categorises and sequences templates is now a cost decision, and 'unlimited messaging' from any vendor deserves a follow-up question.

  2. The DPDP compliance clock is running

    The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were notified in November 2025, with consent-manager provisions and the main substantive obligations — notice, security safeguards, breach reporting, data-principal rights — phasing in over the following months rather than immediately. Consent records, retention and deletion move from good practice to build requirements, and the time to design for that is before the deadline rather than after it.

  3. DLT registration is an SMS rule, not a WhatsApp one

    TRAI's DLT registration regime governs commercial SMS and voice traffic through access providers. WhatsApp is a different pipe: the gatekeeper there is Meta's own template review and quality rating. Businesses regularly conflate the two and then wonder why their DLT-approved copy is rejected as a template.

  4. The payment lives in the same thread as the order

    UPI is India's dominant retail payment rail, and in practice the payment link sits in the conversation next to the product photo. Which means a failed payment is not a dashboard event — it is a message thread that went quiet, and recovering it is a messaging problem as much as a payments one.

  5. Customers do not type in one language

    The same business handles Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and English on one number, mostly code-mixed and increasingly as voice notes. Software that only understands clean, single-language text is understanding a minority of its inbox.

Chatori against that list

What the software does about it

Twelve channels, one inbox, one contact record

WhatsApp first, with RCS, Instagram, Messenger, TikTok, SMS, email, Telegram, Viber, Line, web chat and voice landing in the same place — which is what ends the 'who replied to this one' problem.

Nine prebuilt AI Employees, with guardrails

SDR, CSR, Booker, Cart-Recovery, Collector, Reactivator, Receptionist, Survey Runner and Onboarder, each with its own role and limits, routed by an intent classifier — and every handoff to a human arrives with the full conversation context.

Answers that cite their source, and a trust score

Replies are grounded in your own uploaded knowledge base with cited sources, and every reply is scored for grounding before it sends; low-scoring replies are held for a human instead of going out. Given what an unsupervised bot can say to a customer in your name, this is the feature that matters most.

A UPI retry waterfall, not a failed-payment report

Failed payments walk through GPay, PhonePe and Paytm deep links to hosted checkout and cash on delivery, with every attempt logged — treating recovery as a conversation, because in India it is one.

Built for how customers actually type

Code-mixed fluency including Hinglish and Arabizi, voice-note comprehension, and voice AI with mandatory AI disclosure — the disclosure being deliberate: people are entitled to know when they are talking to a machine.

Everything above is a Chatori capability, described on its own page in full detail — and the fastest way to find out whether it fits India is to put your actual workflow in front of us.

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Asked in India

Questions that only come up in this market

Can we use Chatori now?

It is in early access. If WhatsApp-first, AI-worked conversations fit how you already sell, get in touch and we will tell you exactly what is ready today and what is not — that conversation is more useful than a signup form.

How much does the WhatsApp messaging itself cost?

That is Meta's charge, not ours, and since 1 July 2025 it is priced per message with different rates by template category and no charge for utility templates inside an open service window. Meta publishes the rates, and we have linked them below. Any vendor quoting you a flat all-in messaging price should be asked precisely what happens when your volume moves.

Do we need DLT registration for WhatsApp?

DLT registration applies to commercial SMS and voice through Indian access providers. WhatsApp templates go through Meta's own review and quality system instead. If you run both channels you will deal with both processes, and they are not interchangeable.

How do you stop the AI inventing an answer to a customer?

Answers come from your own uploaded knowledge base and cite their sources, and every reply is scored for grounding before it is sent — anything that scores low is held for a human rather than delivered. It is not a claim that a language model cannot be wrong; it is a gate in front of the ones we can detect.

Where these facts come from

Every regulation, rate and deadline on this page is the published position as of August 2026, linked so you can check it yourself. Rules move, so verify anything you are about to make a decision on — and none of this is tax or legal advice.

Facts last re-checked against these sources on 2026-08-31.

WhatsApp business software — India

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