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Why Messages Fail Due to WhatsApp Per-User Marketing Limits

Why Messages Fail Due to WhatsApp Per-User Marketing Limits

Understand WhatsApp’s per-user marketing limit, why your messages may fail, and how Spur’s Delivery Boost helps solve this.

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⚠️ Why the Message Is Failing to Deliver

You’re seeing the error:

“Couldn’t deliver because of WhatsApp Per-User Limit.”

That means the recipient (your customer) has already hit the daily limit of marketing messages that Meta allows them to receive from any business — not just yours.


💬 This Limit Is Not Specific to Your Business

  • It’s about the recipient’s number, not your sender reputation.

  • Meta sets a cap on how many total marketing messages one person can receive in a 24-hour period.

  • For example, if Meta allows a person to receive 4 marketing messages in a day, and they’ve already received messages from:

    • Amazon

    • Pizza Hut

    • Domino’s

…and now you try sending a broadcast — your message will be blocked because they’ve hit their limit.


🧠 Simple Analogy

Let’s say a person:

  1. Orders from Amazon

  2. Gets a coupon from Pizza Hut

  3. Gets an update from Domino’s

Now your brand tries to message them.

Meta steps in and says:

“That’s too many for today — this one won’t go through.”


🔄 What Happens Next

  • This isn’t related to your per 24 hours conversations quota.

  • This limit is set per recipient by Meta.

  • It resets every 24 hours automatically.

  • Your number isn’t blocked, and your templates aren’t flagged. You have nothing to worry about.


🚀 How Spur Helps — Delivery Boost

Good news: Delivery Boost is already active on your account.

  • Messages are retried for up to 48 hours (previously 24).

  • That’s 16 retry attempts instead of 8, every 3 hours.

  • As soon as the user’s message limit resets, your message will retry and most likely deliver.


✅ What You Can Do

  • Encourage replies: Users who engage are less likely to be filtered Because they've shown in the past that they like to receive messages from you.

  • Use utility templates (e.g. order updates): These are not subject to per-user limits.


If you still have questions, feel free to reach out to our team — we’re happy to help.

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