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GoPromoteNow or the WhatsApp Business app?
If one person handles every chat on one phone, the WhatsApp Business app may be all you need. When several people must share one number, answer in the business's name and keep a record of who said what, you need the WhatsApp Business API through a provider, and GoPromoteNow is a shared inbox built on it.
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How they compare
The table puts what we can state about GoPromoteNow beside what Meta says about the WhatsApp Business app on its own pages, as of October 2026, with a link to check each one. We do not quote another company's prices or customer numbers, because they change; check those on its site before you decide.
| Question | GoPromoteNow | WhatsApp Business app (as of October 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A shared WhatsApp inbox for any business, on WhatsApp's official Business Platform (Cloud API). WhatsApp is the only channel today. | Meta's own app for small businesses, installed on a phone, with linked devices. Source |
| Who connects your number | Our team, with you, on a short call while Meta sends a one-time code to the number. | You register the number in the app yourself, on the phone it lives on. Source |
| Team inbox | One shared inbox: assignment, internal notes, labels, filters, built-in roles and custom roles. | Chats live on the phone and the devices linked to it. Source |
| Automatic replies | Greeting and away messages from your own number, and quick replies that can carry a photo or a document. | Greeting and away messages and quick replies are built in. Source |
| Templates and broadcasts | Templates written and submitted from the inbox; Broadcast to a pasted list, scheduled, kept out of night hours, with STOP honoured. | Broadcast lists, which reach only people who have saved your number. Source |
| Catalog | Products, services, plans or rooms sent as cards or a tap-to-choose list, and the whole catalog as one public link. | A catalog is built into the app. Source |
| AI | An assistant that answers only from your documents and names its source: coming soon. | See WhatsApp’s own pages for what the app offers. Source |
| Meta's charges | Billed by Meta to your own WhatsApp Business Account; not part of our plan and never passed through us. | See WhatsApp’s own pages. Source |
| Trying it first | A live demo on sample data with no sign-in, and a free trial with no payment details. | Download it from your phone’s app store. Source |
| Prices | One price list, the same on our pricing page and at checkout, paid monthly or yearly. | See WhatsApp’s own pages. Source |
| Partners and white-label | Partners can offer the inbox under their own name, logo and address, with no code and no app build. | Not applicable: it is an app for one business. |
When the app is the better choice
If one person answers every customer on one phone, your volume is small and you never need to write first at scale, the WhatsApp Business app does the job: it has greeting and away messages, quick replies, labels and a catalog. Move to a shared inbox when the phone becomes the bottleneck.
Moving from the app
Your number can move from the app to the shared inbox once it is removed from the app, or you can start with a new number, which most businesses do. Either way, our team connects it with you on a short call while Meta sends a one-time code, and the WhatsApp account page then shows anything Meta still needs.
Questions about switching
Two questions come up every time a business compares GoPromoteNow with the WhatsApp Business app, so here are the direct answers. Anything else, ask us on WhatsApp, book a demo with our team, or look around the whole product on sample data first, with no sign-in and nothing sent to anyone.
Can I keep using the app on the same number?
Not with GoPromoteNow: a number can only live in one place at a time, so it leaves the app when it is connected to us. Most businesses use a new number for the shared inbox, which also keeps work off a personal phone. Our team connects it with you on a short call.
What do I gain by moving from the app?
Everyone on your team answers from one inbox with their own sign-in, chats can be assigned and noted, roles limit who can do what, templates let you write first to anyone, and Broadcast reaches people who agreed to hear from you, whether or not they saved your number.
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Try GoPromoteNow before you decide
Look around the whole product on sample data, with no sign-in, or start a free trial that needs no payment details and keep your current tool while you do. When you are ready, our team connects your number with you on a short call.