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description: Achieve a higher return on investment and delivery rates by transitioning to the user-friendly Marketing Messages Lite (MMLite) API to execute large-scale campaigns.
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# Enable Marketing Messages Lite API

Achieve a higher return on investment and delivery rates by transitioning to the user-friendly Marketing Messages Lite (MMLite) API to execute large-scale campaigns.

### Required Editions

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d36903e39">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d36903e39 ">To create messages: </td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d36903e39 ">Marketing Cloud Administrator, Marketing Cloud Channel Manager, or Marketing Cloud
              Content Editor/Publisher </td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d36903e39 ">To manage journeys: </td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d36903e39 ">Marketing Cloud Administrator, Marketing Cloud Channel Manager, or Marketing Cloud
              Content Editor/Publisher </td>

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Note MMLite is available in both WhatsApp Unified Messaging and WhatsApp Direct. For more information, contact your Account Executive.

1. In the WhatsApp dashboard, under Business Portfolios, click **Enable MM Lite** next to the business portfolio that you want to use.
2. Log in to your Meta (Facebook) account, and click **Continue** to grant Meta consent to use MMLite.
3. Select the business portfolio to onboard. When the setup is complete, click **Finish**.