After linking and verifying your WhatsApp Business Account, you can receive and answer your customers' WhatsApp messages in real-time with the Conversations app that gathers all your messages from your different communication platforms (Chat widget, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct). To learn more about the Conversations app, check our dedicated section in the Help Center. 

Good to know

• Conversations is not a community management tool: It allows you to manage your private messages and provide support to your customers.
• You can use the Saved replies, Agents, and Groups features from Conversations for WhatsApp messages. 
• The Conversations features below are not available for WhatsApp in Conversations: 
  • Targeted chats & triggers
  • Chatbot scenarios
  • Contact form
• We recommend that you use the Conversations mobile app (for Android or Apple/iOS) to never miss a message from your customers and reply to them on the go. To learn more about the Conversations mobile app, check our dedicated article.
• Use Facebook ads or CTAs on your website or communications containing your WhatsApp business phone number as a free entry point of conversation for your users. To learn more, check our WhatsApp pricing calculator.

Before you start

• Link your WhatsApp Business account to Brevo through the embedded signup. 
• Verify your WhatsApp Business account. 

💰 How does WhatsApp in Conversations work, and how is it charged?

When a contact messages you via Conversations, a 24-hour messaging window is activated. During this period, you can reply with free-form messages at no cost, as long as it's within 24 hours of their last message.

If you don’t respond within this window, it closes. To message the contact after the 24-hour window has expired, you have to use a WhatsApp template created in Conversations. This message will be charged as a utility template, with pricing based on the recipient’s country code.

➡️ To learn more about the different pricing and credits applied per country and template type, check our WhatsApp pricing calculator.

💬 Reply to WhatsApp messages after the 24-hour messaging window

To be able to reply to your customers' WhatsApp messages after the 24-hour messaging window, Conversations allows you to create WhatsApp templates that can be used for this specific situation.

Creating WhatsApp templates for Conversations saves you time, as they will already be approved by Meta and can be used directly from Conversations. To create a WhatsApp template for Conversations and reply to your customers' WhatsApp messages:

1. Go to Conversations > Inbox.
2. Access one of your customer's WhatsApp messages and click Restart the conversation. 
   
3. From the WhatsApp template drop-down list, click Create a template. 
   
4. The WhatsApp template creation page opens in a new tab. Set up, design, and send your WhatsApp template for approval. 
   
   💡 Good to know

   Create a WhatsApp template for each type of reply you usually type in your WhatsApp conversations such as a template to restart a conversation about customers' tickets or order information.
5. Once your WhatsApp template is validated by Meta, go back to Conversations > Inbox and refresh the page or click Restart the conversation from a WhatsApp conversation.
6. From the WhatsApp template drop-down list, select the WhatsApp template you've just created for Conversations. 
7. Click Send WhatsApp template. 
   

Congratulations! 🎉 You've replied to your customer's WhatsApp message. You can now wait for them to reply to start a new 24-hour messaging window. 

👀 Recognize WhatsApp messages in Conversations

There are three ways of recognizing a WhatsApp message in Conversations:

1. WhatsApp logo next to the sender name.
2. WhatsApp logo next to the time the message was sent.
3. WhatsApp logo and page name under the Channel section.

You can easily know if your customer received and viewed your message by looking at your message display:

• Not seen 
  You will know that your customer received your message if a tick displays for a few seconds next to your name above the message you sent. When the message has been received but not read yet, the message block is grey and the mention (not seen) displays.
• Seen
  Once your customer read your message, the message block becomes white, and the mention (seen) displays for a few seconds before disappearing. 

⏭ What's next? 

• Pricing for WhatsApp messages
• About add-ons or Pay as you go (WhatsApp, SMS and email credits, and Dedicated IP)

🤔 Have a question?

If you have a question, feel free to contact our support team by creating a ticket from your account. If you don't have an account yet, you can contact us here.

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