Whatomate Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Whatomate hosting and run WhatsApp Business messaging, campaigns and chatbots from your own instance. xCloud runs the pinned Whatomate 0.1.1-beta-0.16.1 image with private PostgreSQL 17 and Redis 7, creates the admin account from the email and password you enter, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the web UI, API and Meta webhook over HTTPS, so customer conversations stay on your own server.

Deploy your Whatomate

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What is Whatomate?

Whatomate is a modern, open-source WhatsApp Business platform that runs on Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API. It gives a team a real-time shared inbox, a manager for Meta-approved message templates, bulk campaigns and chatbot automation in one web app.

Because you host it yourself, contacts, conversations and campaigns live in your own PostgreSQL database instead of a per-seat SaaS account. You still need your own Meta developer account to connect a WhatsApp Business number.

From Sign-Up to a Live WhatsApp Inbox In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Whatomate stack normally means an app container, PostgreSQL, Redis, generated secrets, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the Meta webhook can be pointed at it. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Whatomate from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain, then enter the administrator email, full name and password; xCloud can generate a 24-character password for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Whatomate image, pinned by immutable digest, with PostgreSQL 17 and a password-protected Redis 7 on a private network with no published ports, mount the whatomate_postgres, whatomate_uploads, whatomate_audio and whatomate_redis volumes, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Connect Meta
Open your HTTPS Whatomate URL and sign in with your admin email and password, then change that password in the app. In Meta Developer settings, set the WhatsApp Cloud API callback URL to https://your-domain/api/webhook with the verify token shown in your installation credentials, and add your Meta app credentials in Whatomate.

Everything Whatomate Does, On Your Own Server

Whatomate runs here with its text messaging features: a shared inbox, templates, campaigns and chatbots on a database you own.

Real-Time Shared Inbox
Handle customer chats in a live inbox, with WebSocket messaging over the WhatsApp Cloud API.
Templates And Bulk Campaigns
Create and manage Meta-approved message templates and send bulk campaigns, with retry support for failed messages.
Chatbot Automation
Automate replies with keyword auto-replies, branching conversation flows and AI-powered responses from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
Canned Responses
Give agents slash-command shortcuts with dynamic placeholders such as the contact's name, so common answers take seconds.
Multi-Tenant Roles
Serve several organizations with multi-tenant isolation, and set roles and permissions down to the action level.
Private PostgreSQL And Redis
PostgreSQL 17 and a password-protected Redis 7 run on the install's private network, with no published ports.

Everything You Need To Run Your WhatsApp Inbox 24/7

Managed hosting for Whatomate, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Whatomate 0.1.1-beta-0.16.1 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin account from your own email and password
Private PostgreSQL and Redis
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Whatomate

Run a support inbox on WhatsApp
Let agents answer customers in one live inbox, with canned responses for the questions they get every day.
Send template campaigns to a contact list
Use Meta-approved templates for bulk sends and let failed messages be retried instead of re-running the whole campaign.
Answer common questions automatically
Set keyword auto-replies and branching flows, or add an AI model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google for open-ended replies.
Manage WhatsApp for several clients
Agencies can keep each client in its own organization, with roles and permissions set per action.

Whatomate Screenshots

Whatomate canned response form with a name, slash shortcut and content with a contact name placeholder

Whatomate canned responses list showing a saved response with its shortcut and active status

Whatomate contacts list with a saved contact still present after an xCloud restart

Whatomate vs Alternatives

Hosted WhatsApp inbox tools: Software-as-a-service inboxes charge per seat and hold your conversations on their servers; Whatomate runs as your own instance with your own data.
Chatwoot: An open-source customer engagement platform with live chat, email and social inboxes, where Whatomate is built specifically around the WhatsApp Cloud API, templates and campaigns.
Evolution API: A WhatsApp API with a Manager UI aimed at developers integrating messaging into their own apps; Whatomate ships the inbox, campaigns and chatbot builder itself.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Whatomate hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Whatomate sits alongside other support and automation tools.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Whatomate itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own WhatsApp Inbox?

Whatomate on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What makes Whatomate different from hosted WhatsApp inbox tools?

It is open source and runs as your own instance, so conversation data, contacts and campaigns stay on your server and you connect directly to Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API.

How do I sign in?

Use the administrator email and password you set during installation, then change the password in the app. The first super-admin is created from those values instead of upstream's default login, and a wrong password is rejected.

What do I need to start messaging?

A Meta developer app with WhatsApp Cloud API access. Point its webhook at https://your-domain/api/webhook using the verify token shown in your installation credentials, and add your Meta app credentials in Whatomate.

What runs alongside Whatomate?

A private PostgreSQL 17 database and a password-protected Redis 7 cache. Neither has a public port.

Does it support WhatsApp voice calls?

Not on this deployment. Calling and IVR need a UDP media port range that is not published here. The inbox, templates, campaigns, chatbots and the webhook all work.

Can anyone create an agent account?

Anyone who knows your organization ID can self-register as an agent, and upstream has no setting to turn this off. Review Settings > Users regularly and remove accounts you do not recognize.

What happens if I change the admin password or email later?

Editing the password in the environment does not rotate an existing account, so change it inside Whatomate after the first sign-in. Changing the admin email creates an additional super-admin rather than renaming the original.

Which secrets should I keep stable?

The encryption key and the JWT secret. Changing the encryption key makes secrets already stored in the app unreadable, and changing the JWT secret signs everyone out.

What should I back up?

All four volumes together: whatomate_postgres, whatomate_uploads, whatomate_audio and whatomate_redis, along with the environment values.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Users, contacts, canned responses and sessions. QA confirmed they were still present after restarting the app, database and Redis containers.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Whatomate?

No. The template pins Whatomate 0.1.1-beta-0.16.1 by immutable digest, and existing sites are not upgraded automatically. Whatomate is pre-release software upstream, so read the release notes first, back up, then change the image tag and digest together. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 512 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 42 to 53 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is there an upload size limit?

Uploads are capped at 16 MB.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Whatomate?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Whatomate project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Whatomate project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.