WHMCS Feature Requests - Whatsapp Client Notifications

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Whatsapp Client Notifications

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bookandhost shared this idea 6 years ago
Integrations
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Is it possible this way that a customer who registers the domain or a service gets an auto message in their Whatsapp and renewal notice also in the whatsapp.

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Whatsapp feature adding
Can we have a feature where a user can place a request from whatsapp and the update can come to his whatsapp, and the user renewal informations and registration information can be shared on his / her whatsapp number.

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WHMCS commented 9th January 20

Thanks for your requests and comments here.
Our team has been researching what we can do with WhatsApp and have come back with the following potential points of concern:
1. WhatsApp say they restrict the number of businesses that have access to the WhatsApp API (Reference: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/26000171/?category=5245235), and that access to the API is restricted to Medium and Large businesses only. What have your experiences been in relation to this?
2. Twilio may be an easier path for getting access, albeit Paid access with per message sending costs, however, Twilio states that use must adhere to the WhatsApp Commerce Policy. The WhatsApp Commerce Policy states that WhatsApp Messaging cannot be used by businesses that transact in the sale of, including renewals and upgrades, of digital content, digital subscriptions, or digital accounts (Reference: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/commerce-policy/). We believe that web hosting would fall under this category. What are your experiences related to this?
Thanks for your feedback!

59 Comments

Evolve Web Hosting commented 3rd April 22

Please do not add this. Unless it can remain completely isolated from the rest of WHMCS. Facebook / META is such a creepy company.

Shahid Malla commented 24th March 22

WhatsApp has updated policy, it can be consider for next level.

Jafar Muhammed commented 23rd October 21

Most people won't check emails often. And there are barriers like sp@m folder, promotions/notifications tabs, etc.

Some people's email addresses will not receive new emails because they may be full or have other issues.

In any case, people will be checking WhatsApp very often and will be engaging back.

I recently started sending WhatsApp notifications manually only for invoice due reminders, and I started seeing that they are immediately renewing their services compared with the email notifications.

Unlike email, WhatsApp is personal and direct. It has some emotional connections than emails.

ramf commented 23rd October 21

This is already doable in so many other similar systems... please do your best to truly investigate it and find a solution to make it part of WHMCS.

HYper Layer commented 1st December 20

is it not possible for whmcs to integrate something like https://www.twilio.com/whatsapp

digitall commented 28th October 20

Here in Italy, strangely, people use WhatsApp so much more than the other messaging systems that some of them do not even know how to read an SMS. That said, even if I would love a native integration and actually use an external module to send SMS messages, WhatsApp seems a little difficult to include, because:

1. People can chat you back, so you would need to be able to answer them into WHMCS
2. There are template messages and session messages, and a 24 hours window for answers
3. People can send and receive multimedia messages like files, voice messages, images and so on, so that would need to be managed somehow

bluesteam commented 2nd June 20

Sigh .. who in their right mind would down vote this one? /facepalm

Michael commented 24th February 20

Yes, I also believe telegram is the way to go with that. We already use it for admin notification.

Eduardofsj commented 28th January 20

due to the whatsapp policy being very complicated, you could also receive via SMS, invoices due, and some other notifications, SMS would only use whoever you want but it would be a good resource too.

Tristan Lerisse commented 14th January 20

Basically bring https://whmcs.community/topic/290845-whmcs-notify-extended-stop-relying-on-emails-for-client-area-notifications/ to the core of WHMCS

Eugene Van Staden commented 10th January 20

Telegram seems to have much more relaxed rules on API use:
https://core.telegram.org/api

Telegram might be a better option than WhatsApp, please will you look into it WHMCS Team.

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WHMCS commented 9th January 20