# One-time codes, on WhatsApp.

WhatsApp verification sends the code as an authentication-template message to a user's WhatsApp account — rich, Authifly-branded, and delivered in an app they already use. It's an orderable channel in the same per-country plan, so a verification can lead with WhatsApp and keep SMS in reserve.

## A channel in the plan, not a new integration.

WhatsApp is a phone-family channel on the Bird Verify API: the recipient is the same phone number, the create and check calls are unchanged, and WhatsApp simply becomes an orderable entry in the per-country channel plan. You order it ahead of SMS where it converts, with SMS next in the plan everywhere else.

## What WhatsApp verification adds.

An orderable channel in the per-country plan.

## Lead with WhatsApp, keep SMS next in line.

The channel order lives on the configuration, so choosing WhatsApp first is a config change, not a code change. The create call stays the same.

## One verification API, every channel your users reach for.

WhatsApp joins email and SMS as a channel in the same per-country plan — ordered the way that converts, on the same two endpoints.