> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://plivo.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Send Templated Location Messages

> Send WhatsApp templated messages with location header components

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Node">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## Prerequisites

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a Node.js development environment.

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/waba-onboarding) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA and have a template in an approved state.

    If your phone number is in `connected` state and a template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## Create send WhatsApp application

    Create a file called `send_whatsapp.js` and paste into it this code.

    ```javascript theme={null}
    let plivo = require('plivo');

    var client = new plivo.Client("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");

    const template = {
            "name": "plivo_order_pickup",
            "language": "en_US",
            "components": [
                {
                    "type": "header",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "type": "location",
                            "location": {
                                "longitude": "122.148981",
                                "latitude": "37.483307",
                                "name": "Pablo Morales",
                                "address": "1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }

    client.messages.create({src:"++14151112221",dst:"+14151112222",type:"whatsapp",template:template})
    .then(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
      });
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234). `src` should be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp Business Account. `dst` should be the destination WhatsApp number that you want to receive the message. 

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the `auth_id` and `auth_token` environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use `process.env` to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.
    </Note>

    ## Test

    Save the file and run it.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can send messages only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Ruby">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## **Prerequisites**

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a Ruby development environment.

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA, and have a template in an approved state.

    If you phone number is in `connected` state and template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## **Create the send WhatsApp application**

    Create a file called `WhatsappMessageCreate.rb` and paste into it this code.

    ```rb theme={null}
    require "rubygems"
    require "/usr/src/app/lib/plivo.rb"
    require "/usr/src/app/lib/plivo/template.rb"
    include Plivo

    api = RestClient.new("<auth_id>","<auth_token>")

    template= {
            "name": "plivo_order_pickup",
            "language": "en_US",
            "components": [
                {
                    "type": "header",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "type": "location",
                            "location": {
                                "longitude": "122.148981",
                                "latitude": "37.483307",
                                "name": "Pablo Morales",
                                "address": "1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }

    response = api.messages.create( src: "+14151112221",dst:"+14151112222",type:"whatsapp", template:template)
    puts response
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234).  `src` would be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp business account.  `dst`   would be the destination WhatsApp number that would receive the message. 

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the `auth_id` and `auth_token` environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use process.env to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.
    </Note>

    ## **Test**

    Save the file and run it.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can send messages only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Python">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## Prerequisites

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a Python development environment.

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/waba-onboarding) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA and have a template in approved state.

    If you phone number is in `connected` state and template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## Create send WhatsApp application

    Create a file called `send_whatsapp.py` and paste into it this code.

    ```python theme={null}
    import plivo
    from plivo.utils.template import Template

    client = plivo.RestClient('<auth_id>','<auth_token>')

    template=Template(**{
            "name": "plivo_order_pickup",
            "language": "en_US",
            "components": [
                {
                    "type": "header",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "type": "location",
                            "location": {
                                "longitude": "122.148981",
                                "latitude": "37.483307",
                                "name": "Pablo Morales",
                                "address": "1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        })

    response= client.messages.create(src="+14151112221",dst="+14151112222",type_="whatsapp", template=template)
    print(response)
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234). src should be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp Business Account. dst should be the destination WhatsApp number that you want to receive the message.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the auth\_id and auth\_token environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use process.env to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.
    </Note>

    ## Test

    Save the file and run it.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can make calls only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="PHP">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## **Prerequisites**

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to [set up a PHP development environment](/docs/sdk/server/php-sdk/).

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA, and have a template in an approved state.

    If you phone number is in `connected` state and template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## **Create the send WhatsApp application**

    Create a file called `send_whatsapp.php` and paste into it this code.

    ```php theme={null}
    <?php
    require '/usr/src/app/vendor/autoload.php';
    use Plivo\RestClient;

    $client = new RestClient("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");

    $template = '{
            "name": "plivo_order_pickup",
            "language": "en_US",
            "components": [
                {
                    "type": "header",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "type": "location",
                            "location": {
                                "longitude": "122.148981",
                                "latitude": "37.483307",
                                "name": "Pablo Morales",
                                "address": "1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }';

    $response = $client->messages->create(["src"=>"+14151112221","dst"=>"+14151112222","type"=>"whatsapp","template"=>$template]);
    print_r($response);
    ?>
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234).  `src` would be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp business account.  `dst`   would be the destination WhatsApp number that would receive the message. 

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the `auth_id` and `auth_token` environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use process.env to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.
    </Note>

    ## **Test**

    Save the file and run it.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can send messages only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title=".NET">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## **Prerequisites**

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a .NET development environment.

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA, and have a template in an approved state.

    If you phone number is in `connected` state and template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## **Create the send WhatsApp application**

    Create a file called `WhatsappMessageCreate.net` and paste into it this code.

    ```c# theme={null}
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using Plivo;

    namespace PlivoExamples
    {
        internal class Program
        {
            public static void Main(string[] args)
            {
                var api = new PlivoApi("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");

               string jsonString = "{\"name\":\"plivo_order_pickup\",\"language\":\"en_US\",\"components\":[{\"type\":\"header\",\"parameters\":[{\"type\":\"location\",\"location\":{\"longitude\":\"122.148981\",\"latitude\":\"37.483307\",\"name\":\"PabloMorales\",\"address\":\"1HackerWay,MenloPark,CA94025\"}}]}]}";

                var response = api.Message.Create(src: "+14151112221", dst: "+14151112222", type: "whatsapp", template_json_string: jsonString);
                Console.WriteLine(response);
            }
        }
    }
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234).  `src` would be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp business account.  `dst`   would be the destination WhatsApp number that would receive the message. 

    <div class="notice-box"><strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the `auth_id` and `auth_token` environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use process.env to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.</div>

    ## **Test**

    Save the file and run it.

    <div class="notice-box">Note: If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can send messages only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.</div>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Java">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## **Prerequisites**

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to [set up a Java development environment](/docs/sdk/server/java-sdk).

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA, and have a template in an approved state.

    If you phone number is in `connected` state and template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## **Create the send WhatsApp application**

    Create a file called `WhatsappMessageCreate.java` and paste into it this code.

    ```java theme={null}

    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.net.URL;
    import java.util.Collections;

    import com.plivo.api.Plivo;
    import com.plivo.api.exceptions.PlivoRestException;
    import com.plivo.api.models.message.Message;
    import com.plivo.api.models.message.MessageCreateResponse;
    import com.plivo.api.models.message.MessageType;
    import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

    class Test
    {
        public static void main(String [] args)
        {
            Plivo.init("<auth_id>","<auth_token>");
            try
            {
                String templateJson = "{\"name\":\"plivo_order_pickup\",\"language\":\"en_US\",\"components\":[{\"type\":\"header\",\"parameters\":[{\"type\":\"location\",\"location\":{\"longitude\":\"122.148981\",\"latitude\":\"37.483307\",\"name\":\"PabloMorales\",\"address\":\"1HackerWay,MenloPark,CA94025\"}}]}]}";

              MessageCreateResponse response = Message.creator("+14151112221","+14151112222").template_json_string(templateJson).type(MessageType.WHATSAPP).create();
              ObjectMapper ow = new ObjectMapper();
              String json_output = ow.writeValueAsString(response);
              System.out.println(json_output);

            }
            catch (PlivoRestException | IOException e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234).  `src` would be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp business account.  `dst`   would be the destination WhatsApp number that would receive the message. 

    <div class="notice-box"><strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the `auth_id` and `auth_token` environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use process.env to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.</div>

    ## **Test**

    Save the file and run it.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can send messages only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Go">
    ## Overview

    This guide shows how to send a templated location message to any destination WhatsApp numbers. Templated messages are a crucial to your WhatsApp messaging experience, as businesses can only initiate WhatsApp conversation with their customers using templated messages.

    WhatsApp templates support 4 components: `header`, `body`, `footer` and `button`. At the point of sending messages, the template object you see in the code acts as a way to pass the dynamic values within these components. 

    `header` can accomodate `text` or `media` (images, video, documents) content or `location`. `body` can accomodate `text` content. `button` can support dynamic values in a `url` button or to specify a developer-defined payload which will be returned when the WhatsApp user clicks on the `quick_reply` button. `footer` cannot have any dynamic variables.

    You can start sending templated location messages using our APIs. Follow the instructions below.

    ## Prerequisites

    To get started, you need a Plivo account — [sign up](https://cx.plivo.com/signup) with your work email address if you don’t have one already. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a Go development environment.

    Once you have a Plivo account, follow our [WhatsApp guide](/docs/messaging/concepts/whatsapp/waba-onboarding) to onboard your WhatsApp account, register a number against your WABA and have a template in approved state.

    If you phone number is in `connected` state and template is in `approved` state, you can send your first message.

    ## Create the send WhatsApp application

    Create a file called `SendWhatsApp.go` and paste into it this code.

    ```go theme={null}
    package main

    import (
            "fmt"
            "github.com/plivo/plivo-go"
    )

    func main() {
            client, err := plivo.NewClient("<auth_id>","<auth_token>", &plivo.ClientOptions{})
            if err != nil {
                    fmt.Print("Error", err.Error())
                    return
            }

            template, err := plivo.CreateWhatsappTemplate(`{
            "name": "plivo_order_pickup",
            "language": "en_US",
            "components": [
                {
                    "type": "header",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "type": "location",
                            "location": {
                                "longitude": "122.148981",
                                "latitude": "37.483307",
                                "name": "Pablo Morales",
                                "address": "1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }`)
             if err != nil {
                panic(err)
             }

            response, err := client.Messages.Create(
            plivo.MessageCreateParams{Src:"+14151112221",Dst:"+14151112222",Type:"whatsapp", Template:&template},
             )
             if err != nil {
                    fmt.Print("Error", err.Error())
                    return
            }
            fmt.Printf("Response: %#v\n", response)
    }
    ```

    Replace the auth placeholders with your authentication credentials from the [Plivo console](https://cx.plivo.com/home). Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in [E.164 format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) (for example, +12025551234).  `src` would be your phone number registered against your WhatsApp business account.  `dst`   would be the destination WhatsApp number that would receive the message. 

    <div class="notice-box"><strong>Note:</strong> We recommend that you store your credentials in the `auth_id` and `auth_token` environment variables to avoid the possibility of accidentally committing them to source control. If you do this, you can initialize the client with no arguments and Plivo will automatically fetch the values from the environment variables. You can use `os.Setenv` and `os.Getenv` functions to store environment variables and fetch them when initializing the client.</div>

    ## Test

    Save the file and run it.

    <Note>
      <strong>Note:</strong> If you’re using a Plivo Trial account, you can send messages only to phone numbers that have been verified with Plivo. You can verify (sandbox) a number by going to the console’s Phone Numbers > <a href="https://cx.plivo.com/home">Sandbox Numbers</a> page.
    </Note>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>