# Dedicated Broadcast Number ## How Dedicated Broadcast Number works? You can use back your existing WhatsApp Business number to blast your marketing campaign without worrying about having blocked by WhatsApp. However, we need to submit an application to Facebook to move your existing number from WhatsApp Business to WhatsApp Business API. Once the number has successfully moved over to WhatsApp Business API, you can blast your promotional message to your target audience with a 100% delivery rate (as long as WhatsApp approved your content before you blast, then it will be ok). ## Benefits * Blast WhatsApp message without worry the number will ever get blocked. As long as Facebook approves your content before blasting, you can blast without worry anything. * Have a dedicated number where your customers can revert back to you with inquiries. * Able to perform 2-way communication. You can even monitor who receives, reads & reply to your WhatsApp message. * Do not need to share sim cards with other people. Your number is solely dedicated to your brand/company. * Using an official way of blasting. Using the official WhatsApp Business API to blast your promotional campaign. * Use your existing number as brand recognition for your company. ## There are 3 costs which need to pay: 1. [Software subscription fee](https://www.ochats.io/pricing): * You need software to connect your new WhatsApp Business API. After connecting, only you can do the above benefits. You can check the price of the software here, ochats.io/pricing. 2. [WhatsApp fee](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/pricing/): * WhatsApp will charge your company around US$0.08 per message. WhatsApp is US company so the charge will be in US dollar. However, WhatsApp is giving 1st 1000 messages for free every month. There are no charges. Exceed 1000 messages per month, the charges will be around US$0.08 per message. 3. WhatsApp service provider fee: * WhatsApp has appointed 2 service providers to help WhatsApp to distribute their API to businesses like yourself. These service providers also charge a fee. The 2 service providers are Gupshup & 360dialog. Gupshup charges US$0.001 for every incoming & outgoing message. 360dialog charges US$25/mth for unlimited incoming & outgoing messages. {% embed url="" %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.yaeris.com/services/dedicated-broadcast-number.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.