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## Description
WhatsApp's migration to usernames / **Business-Scoped User IDs (BSUID)**
means a contact can become addressable only by a BSUID (format
`CC.<id>`, e.g. `BR.1393...`) when no phone number is exposed. Per
Meta's Cloud API, a BSUID recipient must be sent in the **`recipient`**
field (with `recipient_type: "individual"`), **not** in `to`.
Today `Whatsapp::Providers::WhatsappCloudService` always places the
recipient in `to`. When `to` carries a BSUID, the Graph API returns
**HTTP 200 with a message id** but **silently drops the message**: it
strips the country prefix and treats the remainder as a phone number
(`wa_id`), which never resolves, so nothing is delivered and **no error
is surfaced**. In the username-only era this means agents reply into the
void — Chatwoot marks the message as sent while the customer receives
nothing.
This PR adds a small helper, `recipient_params`, that routes the
outgoing identifier to the correct field:
- a **BSUID** → `{ recipient_type: "individual", recipient: <bsuid> }`
- a **phone number** → `{ to: <phone> }` (unchanged behaviour)
It is applied to all four Cloud send paths: text, attachment, template
and interactive. BSUID detection reuses the existing
`RegexHelper::WHATSAPP_BSUID_REGEX`. No Graph API version bump is
required (see testing below).
Related to #13837 (this covers the **outbound sending** part).
### References
- Meta — *Business-scoped user IDs*:
https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/business-scoped-user-ids/
— "set `recipient` to the user's BSUID or parent BSUID"; when both `to`
and `recipient` are present, `to` takes precedence.
- BSUIDs began appearing in webhooks in April 2026; sending **to** a
BSUID was enabled by Meta in July 2026.
## Type of change
- [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to not work as expected)
- [ ] This change requires a documentation update
## How Has This Been Tested?
Verified **live** against a real, Meta-registered WhatsApp Cloud number,
sending to a real BSUID captured from an inbound webhook, on **both
Graph API v13.0 (the current default in this service) and v22.0**:
| # | API version | recipient field | Meta response | delivered? |
|---|-------------|-----------------|---------------|:----------:|
| 1 | v22.0 | `recipient` = BSUID | `200` · `contacts[].user_id` echoed
| ✅ |
| 2 | v22.0 | `to` = BSUID | `200` · `contacts[].wa_id` (prefix
stripped) | ❌ |
| 3 | v13.0 | `recipient` = BSUID | `200` · `contacts[].user_id` echoed
| ✅ |
- When the API echoes `user_id`, the BSUID is accepted and the message
**is delivered**; when it echoes `wa_id` (prefix stripped), it is
**not** — confirmed on the receiving handset.
- **v13.0 already accepts `recipient`**, so no Graph API version bump is
needed.
- Added unit specs asserting the request body uses `recipient` +
`recipient_type` for a BSUID and `to` for a phone number, across the
send paths.
## Checklist:
- [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
- [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
- [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream
modules
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Co-authored-by: Muhsin Keloth <muhsinkeramam@gmail.com>
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