Platform · 6 min read · Savina Bansal
White-label WhatsApp Business API: what your clients really see
Agencies want a white-label WhatsApp Business API so clients see their brand. What a white label changes, what it does not, and how Ohanvi’s partner model works.
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An agency that sells WhatsApp automation to clinics, gyms or shops usually asks the same question early: can we white-label it? The wish behind it is reasonable. The agency wants the client relationship to stay theirs, and wants their own name on what the client uses.
Before choosing a platform for that, it helps to separate the two audiences a white label is supposed to impress, because they see very different things.
What your client’s customers see
Nothing of the platform. A customer chatting with a clinic on the WhatsApp Business API sees the clinic’s business name and profile photo, on the clinic’s own number. No API provider’s name appears in the chat, white-label or not. That is how Meta’s platform works.
So for the end customer, every official API platform is already “white-label”. The brand they see is the one that matters to your client.
What your client sees
This is what a white-label platform changes: the dashboard your client logs into carries your agency’s logo and domain instead of the provider’s. It is a real benefit if your agency’s business is the software itself. It matters less if your business is the setup, the flows, the templates and the support, because that is what the client is paying you for.
Questions to ask any white-label provider
Whose name is the WhatsApp Business Account registered in? It should be your client’s. If it is registered to you or the provider, your client cannot leave without losing the number’s history, and neither can you.
Is it on Meta’s official platform? Bulk-message tools on unofficial connections get numbers banned without warning, and a ban takes the client’s contacts and chats with it.
How are message charges priced? You will be quoting them to clients. You need the provider’s per-message price, how it relates to Meta’s published rate, and whether you are allowed to add your own margin on top.
Who supports the client at 11 pm? A white-label usually means the support is yours. Make sure the provider supports you fast enough to make that possible.
What Ohanvi offers agencies today
Ohanvi does not rebrand its dashboard: your clients log into Ohanvi. What it offers instead is a partner programme built around keeping the client relationship yours.
Your client’s WhatsApp Business Account is registered in their own business name. Setup, migration and training are free on every paid plan, done on a call with you and your client. You earn a recurring share of each client’s subscription every month they stay, with no joining fee, no exclusivity and no minimum. WhatsApp message charges are billed at the published price for the client’s plan, with nothing added for being a partner.
Your partner account shows your invite link and referral code, how many clients you have referred and how many are active and paying, your monthly commission, and your lifetime earnings. Withdrawals go to your bank in 3–5 working days.
Where the client’s brand does lead
Every WhatsApp message carries the client’s own business name. And in the parts of Ohanvi that face their customers directly, the client leads: on an Events guest gallery, for example, the studio’s name is the heading and Ohanvi is a small credit in the footer.
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Questions this answers
- Does Ohanvi offer a white-label WhatsApp API?
- Not a rebranded dashboard: clients log into Ohanvi. Agencies join the partner programme instead, earn a recurring share of each client’s subscription, and the client’s WhatsApp messages carry the client’s own business name.
- Do customers see the WhatsApp API provider’s name?
- No. On the official WhatsApp Business API, customers see the business’s name and profile photo on its own number. The provider’s name does not appear in the chat.
