How to interact with users through WhatsApp

Index:

1. Calendar contacts
2. Sending notifications (Message templates)
3. Click Ads for WhatsApp
4. Links wa.me
5. Duplicate messages on WhatsApp

The WhatsApp Business API solution allows the interaction between bot and customers to happen in several ways.

Calendar contacts

Any user who has your bot contact saved in the phone book can start a conversation with your company in the same way that you start with any other user.

Sending notifications (Message templates)

The WhatsApp channel is one of the few channels that allows bots to actively contact customers, even if they have never interacted with the company's contact.

Despite this, remember to follow the Opt-in policies defined by the channel. Click here to see more about notifications.

Click Ads for WhatsApp

You can use click-through ads for WhatsApp to start conversations at scale, taking advantage of Facebook's targeting to find relevant customers for your companies.

Links wa.me

You can add wa.me links wherever hyperlinks work. They link people to the bot, whether they are on mobile or on the desktop. To learn more about setting up WhatsApp access links click here.

Duplicate messages on WhatsApp

The WhatsApp channel has a very careful message delivery policy, which aims to deliver the best customer experience. Sometimes, however, a message duplication problem occurs: that is, the contact receives the same message more than once.

This is because the channel prefers to make sure that the contact receives the message sent, even if it means sending it twice. The rate of duplicate messages is 0.05%, and reaches less than 2% of users.

It is worth mentioning that the sending of duplicate messages does not represent any problem within the flow of the smart contact, and the contact information is captured by Blip in the same way.