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September 29, 2020
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Triggers and automations on Whatsapp

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  • September 29, 2020
  • 25 replies
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Hello,

 

Even though I have no problems creating tickets and automations that send a notification to the requester when the ticket comes via Facebook messenger, I cannot do the same if they come through Whatsapp.

Your support tells me it can't be helped at the time.

This is very inconvenient, since I can't establish automatic messages (via triggers) for messages that get received out of working hours, satisfaction rating request, and so on. I can only set one general automated message for all incoming Whatsapp texts we receive, which is not for specific purposes and doesn't help so much.

There doesn't seem to be a logical reason for notifications via trigger in Whatsapp not to work, please fix it.

 

Thanks.

    25 replies

    Maria17
    October 2, 2022

    Hi everyone.

    Same here. My company has a WhatsApp number which is impossible to send offline message that we could send before migration to Agent Workspace. I don't know what to say to the partner because it worked before but now it doesn't. 

    I did not find the way, on the weekend I manually send messages to WhatsApp users who write to us to send us the email address to contact them by email on Monday.

    At least give us the option to send on weekends a different welcome message.

    This is a very big problem to us.

    Thanks.

    Maria

    Product Manager
    November 8, 2022

    Hi everyone, 

    Wanted to drop an update on this post. 

    We plan to continue to invest in Triggers and Automations for messaging channels, including WhatsApp. Please use this thread to discuss / comment and provide feedback. 

    - Prakruti

    April 11, 2023

    Have a scenario. When the Agent accept incoming WhatsApp message, we want it to send an auto response to the end-user or customer on who will be assisting them which is assignee name. for example : "Good day Requester Name, my name is  Assignee Name and will be assisting you today". But on WhatsApp. Yes on email, SMS this feature is there because we do have email action, text user action but we do not have WhatsApp action where we can use these trigger. Please look into it this specifically for WhatsApp incoming messages triggers  

    Cesar15
    Newcomer
    April 11, 2023

    You can definitely do it using the WhatsApp Connector by Respira. You can either make a Macro that would send a WhatsApp templated message, or use a trigger that would be triggered when a message is created by WhatsApp channel.

    I don´t think you can avoid the 24h limit by Facebook if you don´t use WhatsApp templated messages.

    Send me an email if you want to see it live in a Zoom meeting.

    Sheyla11
    July 6, 2024

    Hi,

    When the chat is will atribuit to agent (in my company, we dont use the accept functionality), we need to have an automatically sending about the enter agent on chat, but this is it will work only for when the chat is atribuit. That's possible?