Pair your dedicated phone

One-time setup. Pair a SIM-only burner phone via WhatsApp Web, then the worker can send on your behalf without you opening WhatsApp again.

1. Get a SIM-only burner phone. A cheap second-hand Android, fresh SIM, only used for this storefront's marketing. Never your personal number.
2. Install WhatsApp on the burner. Verify with the new SIM. Don't link to any other identity.
3. Click "Generate QR" below. The worker on VM5 boots a headless browser, opens WhatsApp Web, and shows a QR code.
4. On the burner phone: WhatsApp → Settings → Linked Devices → Link a Device → scan the QR.
5. Done. Session persists indefinitely until WhatsApp logs out or bans the number. Re-pair if either happens.

Ban-risk hygiene rules the worker enforces

Hard cap of 100 messages per day per paired phone, ramping from 30 over the first week
Random 30–90s delay between each message, plus a 5–15 min break every 25 messages
Light text variations on each send (random emoji, "Hi" vs "Hey", trailing punctuation)
Stops automatically if WhatsApp web throws errors or rate limits

The dedicated worker process is being built next session — see the WhatsApp worker scaffold at C:\Nexus\storefront\worker-whatsapp\. UI surface is ready; pairing flow comes online when the worker is deployed to VM5.