How to Get Verified With Badge on WhatsApp (for Business)
Smart people like me, you and Mark Zuckerberg already knew right from day one when WhatsApp was launched that the future has already arrived for instant messaging applications. The Founder and CEO of the world leading social networking website Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg who earns $1 salary a year from Facebook but still ranks number five in the list of top ten 2018 billionaires in the world seized the opportunity in 2014 to acquire this fast-growing application that requires no username, email and or password to sign up or login.
With over 1.5 billion active users and 60 billion messages sent daily across the platform from one user to another end to end there is absolutely no doubt that the acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion was really a smart choice for Facebook for stepping in when the app was just on its 450 million monthly active users of which over 315m are active every day. Today this awesome instant message app has not only grown in a number of active users but has also given birth to a sister application called WhatsApp for Business or simply WA for Business.
Gradually WhatsApp developers are rolling out incredible feature businesses and companies have been anticipating to have – on WhatsApp to put them and their customers closer than ever in terms of communication – in the newly released WA for Business. This instant messaging platform is indeed a perfect way for WhatsApp to be monetized as well as a better option for a business to reach their customers because that’s where they are at. And the most essential application they have installed on their devices.
Again, as businesses begin to get closer between service providers, problem solvers (like THE UP SPOT always on the frontline to solving your information problem be it on tech-related issues or news worth sharing and more) and their clients. There is a need to really know who is who and who is somewhat trying to pretend to be a business or company they are not while WhatsApp aim is simply to connect us with businesses that matter to us.
As usual, on signup for WA for Business, WhatsApp verifies the mobile number of the contact that it belongs to the associated business. But that only is more like the when you are just creating a non-business WhatsApp account which is not good enough because anyone can do same. This is where the green badge comes to play. You probably might have seen a green badge by now except you haven’t communicated with any verified account so far. These green badges sitting next to a contact name according to WhatsApp means that the business you are connecting to is a verified business account.
Business owners who intend to get verified should keep in mind that “WA business verification is currently limited to a small number of businesses participating in a pilot program.” – WhatsApp
A detail explanation about WA verification was mailed to my friend who contacted WhatsApp about getting his business verified. He was told that: “WhatsApp follows a process to assess if a business can be verified. And he doesn’t have to do anything for him to be considered for either account confirmation or verification.”
See the full reply from WhatsApp in the photo below:
