Validate if a number exists on WhatsApp

Wassenger
3 min readJul 1, 2024

Have you ever wanted to know if your company’s client numbers are on WhatsApp so you can send them your messages directly? For businesses, it’s crucial to ensure their phone numbers are valid and active on WhatsApp. Validating numbers can save time, reduce costs, and improve marketing effectiveness by maintaining a clean contact list and ensuring messages reach the right audience.

Wassenger provides a reliable way to validate phone numbers on WhatsApp, streamlining communication efforts and enhancing customer engagement. This article will explore the importance of number validation and how Wassenger can help.

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Validate numbers from the Wassenger webpage

You can easily validate any number from our webpage here.

How to validate the number

  1. Enter the number with the country prefix. A phone number in full international format includes a plus sign (+), then country code, city code, and local phone number.
  2. Press enter and all the relevant information will be displayed.
Validate your number here

Do you want to automate number validation?

The API provides an endpoint that can validate whether a given phone number exists in WhatsApp.

The only requirement is to have at least one WhatsApp number connected to the platform in your current account.

For more details, please check out the API endpoint documentation here.

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FAQs

How to validate if a phone number can receive WhatsApp messages?

You can validate if a given phone number is linked to a WhatsApp account and can receive messages.

The API provides an endpoint that can validate whether a given phone number exists in WhatsApp.

The only requirement is to have at least one WhatsApp number connected to the platform in your current account.

For more details, please check out the API endpoint documentation here.

WhatsApp number checks are limited per plan

Before you check if a phone number exists on WhatsApp, you can also validate and normalize the format of a list of phone numbers using the numbers validator API endpoint. This endpoint only validates the correct E164 format, but it does not check whether the phone number effectively exists on WhatsApp.

How can I validate phone numbers?

We provide the Number validator API endpoint that allows you to validate the E164 format up to 500 phone numbers per API request. This API endpoint has no limit and can be called at no additional cost.

Please note this validation only validates of the given phone number format is valid or not, but it will not validate whether it’s linked or not to an existing WhatsApp account.

For WhatsApp numbers existing validation please check the article below.

How can I validate if a phone number exists in WhatsApp?

You can validate whether a given phone number exists in WhatsApp or not, and therefore can receive messages in WhatsApp, by using the Number exists API endpoint.

Please note you must have at least one WhatsApp number connected to the platform to perform the validation.

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