How to Get the WhatsApp Green Tick

• A WhatsApp Business Platform account
• A verified Meta Business account
• Genuine third-party press coverage of the business

1. 01Know what the tick actually isThe green tick — officially the Official Business Account badge — tells a customer that Meta has confirmed this account is the business it claims to be. It is granted at Meta’s discretion to businesses it considers notable, not issued on request. Confusingly, people search for it as the WhatsApp blue tick; on WhatsApp the badge is green, and the blue tick is the read receipt on a message, which is unrelated.
2. 02Get on the WhatsApp Business Platform firstThe badge is only available to accounts on the WhatsApp Business Platform, reached through a provider. The free WhatsApp Business app cannot get one at all, however established the business is. If you are on the free app, that is the first gap to close, and it is the reason most searches for this end in confusion.
3. 03Complete Meta Business verificationSeparate from the badge and a prerequisite for it. Meta Business verification confirms your legal entity using registration documents, a utility bill or bank statement showing the business name and address, and a domain that matches. Get the details consistent across all of it before submitting — a company name on the registration that differs from the one on the utility bill is a common and slow-to-fix rejection.
4. 04Fix the display name before you applyThis decides more applications than anything else. The display name must be the name customers know the business by, and must match your website, your other social profiles and your registration. Generic names, keyword-stuffed names, names containing a phone number or a URL, and names in all capitals are refused. Changing it later triggers another review, so get it right first.
5. 05Understand the notability barThis is the part nobody can help you with. Meta looks for evidence the business is notable — meaningful coverage in independent news sources it recognises, not paid placements, not press releases you distributed, and not your own blog. A profitable local business with no press coverage will usually not qualify, and no amount of reapplying changes that. It is a media-presence test more than a business-quality one.
6. 06Apply, then leave it aloneThe application is submitted through your provider or the Meta Business interface. Reviews take days to weeks. If it is refused you can normally apply again after a waiting period, but reapplying with nothing changed produces the same answer — the useful move is to close whichever gap caused it, usually notability or name consistency, and that takes months rather than days.
7. 07What Meta Verified changed, and what it did notMeta introduced a paid subscription that gives businesses a verified badge across its apps, which has muddied this considerably. It is a different thing from the Official Business Account green tick, with different criteria and a monthly fee. Check what your provider is actually offering when a badge is mentioned, because the two are frequently conflated in sales conversations.

• The badge on WhatsApp is green — the blue tick is a read receipt and unrelated
• The free WhatsApp Business app can never get a green tick, whatever the business
• Display name consistency across website, socials and registration decides most applications
• Notability means independent press coverage, not paid placements or your own announcements
• Reapplying without changing anything gets the same refusal — fix the gap instead

A realistic view of whether your business qualifies, the two prerequisites in place, and a display name that will not be the reason it fails.