Hi, viewers in this video I am going to show you how you can fix the problem which is that when you try to create a Whatsapp business profile name a pop-up appears showing the text that your business name doesn't follow our naming guidelines. This may prevent your account from being listed as an official business account. So, in order to fix this problem watch the video till the end.
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00:00Hi viewers, if you are facing the problem which is that when you try to create the name
00:10for your WhatsApp business profile and when you tap or click on the next button, the popup
00:20shows up on which it is written that your business name does not follow our naming guidelines.
00:30This may prevent your account from being listed as an official business account.
00:37So viewers, if you watch this video till the end, you will get rid of this problem.
00:42My name is Sajam Anthanali, welcome to GetInformation and Knowledge YouTube channel, let's get started.
00:48Viewers, you can see that I have typed SAK store for my business profile.
00:55So I will then tap on the next button, you can see that the popup appears which says
01:03that your business name does not follow our naming guidelines.
01:07This may prevent your account from being listed as an official business account.
01:12Do you still want to use it?
01:15So what I will do is tap on the learn more text.
01:21As I tapped on it, you can see that this page opens on which the rules for creating a business
01:29name has been shown up.
01:32So to be eligible for an official business account, business names can't include all
01:38capital letters except for acronyms.
01:42What is acronym?
01:44Acronym is a word formed by abbreviating a phrase by combining certain letters of words
01:52in the phrase into a single term.
01:55Examples of acronyms are ATM, ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine, DOB which stands
02:07for DOB, ASAP which stands for As Soon As Possible, etc.
02:17So viewers, these are acronyms.
02:19Reading further, the rules for creating a business name, only the first letter of each
02:26word can be capitalized.
02:29Conjections may not be capitalized.
02:31What are conjections?
02:32Conjections are AND, FOR, BUT, etc.
02:38You can also read the examples which has been displayed on the help center.
02:47The first one is correct one and the second one is incorrect.
02:52The second rule for creating a business name is that you must not add any extra spaces
03:00between words.
03:02Business names must use single spacing.
03:06Third rule is that you must not use unnecessary punctuation.
03:12Now what is punctuation?
03:15Punctuation are the marks such as brackets, colon, exclamation mark, full stop, etc. which
03:24are used in writing to separate sentences and their elements.
03:29And to clarify meaning.
03:31The next rule for creating a business name on WhatsApp is that you can't include emoji.
03:39The fifth rule is symbols and the sixth rule is consecutive non-alphanumeric characters.
03:49Characters which are neither numbers nor letters are known as consecutive non-alphanumeric
03:56characters.
03:59The seventh rule is any of these special characters you can't include for creating a WhatsApp
04:08profile business name.
04:09With this there is also a note that these formatting guidelines do not apply to businesses
04:15who already brand this way externally.
04:19In that case the business name used on WhatsApp business app may incorporate punctuation,
04:26capitalization, etc. that matches the external branding.
04:31Also business names can't consist of only a person's full name, a generic term, example
04:38fashion, a generic geographic location, example New York, three or fewer characters.
04:46Finally business names can't include any variation of the word WhatsApp.
04:51Learn more by visiting our brand guidelines.
04:54So if you tap on the brand guidelines text you will be taken to the page where you will
05:02be able to read about the brand guidelines.
05:06So the last one is note if your business account is listed as an official business account
05:13changing your business name might result in your account losing its official business
05:17account status.
05:19So viewers these are the rules that you must follow in order to create your WhatsApp business
05:29account profile name.
05:31As you can see viewers I am now able to keep my store name as sztstore because I have followed
05:39all the rules for creating a WhatsApp business account profile name.
05:45So like this you can also create a WhatsApp business profile name if you follow the rules.