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Migrate to Unified WhatsApp
Migrate from a business service provider, Marketing Cloud Engagement WhatsApp, or Service Cloud WhatsApp. After migration, your existing message templates are available in Unified WhatsApp.
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Migrate From A Business Service Provider or Marketing Cloud Engagement WhatsApp Channel
When migrating from a BSP or Marketing Cloud Engagement WhatsApp channel, you'll create a new WABA and phone number.
- Contact your account executive to discuss moving to Unified Messaging. They can verify that you have the right number of entitlements to support your messaging activity.
- In Setup, enter WhatsApp in the Quick Find box and select Your Numbers under WhatsApp.
- Click Add Number.
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Select the migration source, and click Next.
- To migrate from another business service provider, select Bring a number from somewhere else.
- To migrate from Marketing Cloud Engagement, select Use a Marketing Cloud Engagement number.
- Review the setup steps you can expect, and click Next.
- Sign into Meta.
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Ensure that your WABA migration requirements are
met.
- In the WhatsApp Business Account field, create a new WABA, and click Next.
- Fill in the details of your new WABA, and click Next.
- Select Add a new number, fill in the details, and click Next.
- Back in Salesforce, select the WABA and phone number that you just created in Meta, and click Finish.
- You'll land in the Number Details page for your Unified WhatsApp channel. From here, complete Unified WhatsApp setup.
Migrate From A Service Cloud WhatsApp Channel
When migrating from a Service Cloud WhatsApp channel, you'll use the existing WABA and phone number from that Service Cloud WhatsApp channel in Unified WhatsApp.
- Contact your account executive to discuss moving to Unified Messaging. They can verify that you have the right number of entitlements to support your messaging activity.
- In Setup, enter WhatsApp in the Quick Find box and select Your Numbers under WhatsApp.
- Click Add Number.
- To migrate from Service Cloud WhatsApp, select Use a Digital Engagement number.
- Review the setup steps you can expect, and click Next.
- Select the WABA and phone number that you just created in Meta, and click Finish.
- You'll land in the Number Details page for your Unified WhatsApp channel. From here, complete Unified WhatsApp setup.

