# Engage customers worldwide with WhatsApp API

Connect marketing, service, and ops teams with customers on the world's most popular messaging app.

## 5 minutes from npm install to first send

## Send a WhatsApp from the language you already use.

SDKs in every major runtime. The first send goes out on a Bird-managed template like bird_delivery_update, already approved by Meta and picking its own sender, so you watch a real message land before you author one of your own.

## Eight things we handle between you and Meta.

WhatsApp is gated: an approved template, an opted-in recipient, a verified business. Those gates do not move. Your provider decides whether they show up in your code or get buried in a dashboard.