---
title: "Send interactive flow message"
method: POST
path: "/messages/interactive/flow"
tags: ["Messages"]
---

# Send interactive flow message

`POST /messages/interactive/flow`

Sends a message with a button that opens a published WhatsApp flow.

Requires an open service window: the recipient must have messaged the business in the last 24 hours. Use `POST /messages/template` to reach recipients outside that window.

## Request body

- object
  - `from` string, required — WhatsApp id of the sender phone number
  - `to` string, required — Recipient phone number, digits only, including country code
  - `interactive` object, required
    - `type` 'flow'
    - `header` object
      - `type` 'text' | 'image' | 'video' | 'document', required
    - `body` object, required
      - `text` string, required
    - `footer` object
      - `text` string, required
    - `action` object, required
      - `name` 'flow'
      - `parameters` object, required
        - `flow_cta` string, required — Label of the button that opens the flow
        - `flow_name` string, required — Name of the published WhatsApp flow
        - `flow_message_version` number
        - `flow_action` 'navigate' | 'data_exchange'
        - `flow_action_payload` object
        - `flow_token` string — Token used to identify the flow

## Response `200`

Message sent successfully

- object
  - `id` string, uuid, required — Id of the created message

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad request — invalid input data, or the message was rejected by the WhatsApp Cloud API (e.g. invalid template)
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `404` — Sender phone number not found or not linked to a WhatsApp Business Account

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[API](https://skmtc.net/indigohive/apis/cogfy-messenger-public-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/indigohive/apis/cogfy-messenger-public-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/indigohive/cogfy-messenger-public-api/versions/30bd33ee45c9/schema)