WhatsApp

WhatsApp chats next to Telegram and Instagram

Connect your own WhatsApp Business number: client messages arrive in Messages, and your replies go out in WhatsApp. Booking confirmations and reminders can go there too.

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Gulnoza Mirzayeva

WhatsApp

“Reminder” template
Gulnoza, a reminder about your booking tomorrow at 11:00. See you!
09:00
Hi, can I come 15 minutes earlier?
09:12
24-hour window is openThe client wrote at 09:12: you can reply with plain text until tomorrow

What WhatsApp can do

Client chats and booking reminders in WhatsApp through your own WhatsApp Business number.

Your own number via Meta’s official API

The number connects through Meta’s WhatsApp Cloud API: account ID, phone number ID and a permanent token. Deskflow checks the number and shows whether messages are coming in.

  • Three fields from WhatsApp Manager
  • The token is stored encrypted
  • Number status and the latest event

WhatsApp

Deskflow Beauty

Connected
+998 90 123-45-67WhatsApp Business number
1029384756WhatsApp Business account ID
••••a1b2Access token
Latest Meta event5 minutes ago: message delivered

The business connects its own number through Meta’s official WhatsApp Cloud API.

Reminders after the 24-hour window

WhatsApp allows free-form messages only for 24 hours after the client last wrote. After that, Meta-approved templates are sent, and you choose which template goes with which notification.

  • Templates are created in WhatsApp Manager
  • A template for Russian, Uzbek and English
  • No template, no message after 24 hours

Notification templates

Approved in WhatsApp Manager

Booking createdbooking_createdApproved
Booking reminderbooking_reminderApproved
Booking cancelledbooking_cancelledApproved
Review requestNo template selectedChoose

Outside the 24-hour window WhatsApp only accepts approved templates. Without one, the notification goes through another channel.

WhatsApp among notification channels

Once the number is connected, WhatsApp appears in notifications next to Telegram and SMS. The delivery log shows whether a message was delivered and read.

  • Booking confirmations and reminders
  • Next to Telegram and SMS
  • “Delivered” and “Read” marks

Booking reminder

24 h before the booking

Salon’s Telegram bot
Deskflow Beauty
Nigora, a reminder of your booking at Deskflow Beauty: 02.10 at 11:00, AirTouch colouring with Dilnoza. Address: 12 Bunyodkor St, next to Novza metro. https://deskflow-beauty.deskflow.uz/r/7Kq2
09:00
Characters: 193
When to send

How it works

Three steps to get WhatsApp running in your business.

  1. Step 1

    Set up a number with Meta

    You need a number on the WhatsApp Business Platform and a permanent access token.

  2. Step 2

    Connect the number in Deskflow

    Under Settings → Integrations → WhatsApp, paste the account ID, phone number ID and token.

  3. Step 3

    Pick templates

    Assign approved templates to notifications and turn on WhatsApp as a channel.

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Frequently asked questions

Short answers to what people ask about WhatsApp.

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