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You can use WhatsApp Channel to manage inbound and outbound interactions, by configuring Meta Connector as provider.
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💡 How to Create an App for WhatsApp
🎬 Video Tutorial
To set up Meta Connector, you need to be registered as Meta Developers on http://developers.facebook.com and create an App for WhatsApp
By entering in your Meta account as Meta for Developers, you need to create an app.
Firstly, you can click on My App → Create an app
Choose Other option
Select Business
Choose display name for your app and app contact email
Connect the app with your Account Business Manager
Create the app
You will see the created app on the relative section
Then, on the App Dashboard you have to choose WhatsApp to configure integration and click on Set up
(Find our Meta documentation here)
Create or select your Meta Business Account and click on Continue to accept terms and conditions. You will receive a WhatsApp test phone number to send test messages
And click on “Start using the API” to proceed with API Configuration
Send a test message to your phone number to verify if the integration works correctly (maximum of 5 recipients numbers)
Then on step 5 you will be able to click on section Add a phone number
You can insert:
Profile Name of WhatsApp Business
Choose a time zone
Business category
You add WhatsApp phone number, by choosing prefix and, according to the selected option, you will receive a text message with a pin code or a phone call to verify your number
Moreover, it is mandatory to configure a payment method
⚙️ Creation of WhatsApp Account on XCALLY
By entering in your XCALLY environment, you can go on WhatsApp Connector → WhatsApp Accounts to create a new account for outbound campaign
Click on button and enter:
Account Name
Key: identification code of maximum 5 characters
List: Contact Manager list used to associate contacts. When you run campaigns, contacts are added to this Master List, so it’s possible to have a unique customer journey with all customer touchpoints with outbound campaigns.
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For all contacts in the Master List to be usable, it is necessary that they contain in the Phone Field the WhatsApp number |
Proxy or Motion Domain: server address
Type Meta
You can copy these data from your Business Meta account
Account SID = ID Account WhatsApp Business
Auth Token = Access Token ( you need to create a Permanent Access Token to use WhatsApp correctly because access token expires after 24 hours. Follow these guidelines)
AppId = ID app
Phone number Id = ID phone number
Phone number with prefix (with +)
Click on Add
How to create a permanent token
With your Developer Account, to create a Permanent Access Token, you can follow Meta guidelines at this link to create a System User with specific permissions.
Go to your Apps list page on your Meta for Developers account you can open Business settings and go to Users → System users to create a new one, clicking on Add.
Then you give a System Username and you choose “Admin” as User Role
You can click on Add Assets and on Select asset type you choose Apps
You select WhatsApp created app, by enabling full control
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Remember that you can create only 1 system user for Business account. However, if you generate more WhatsApp apps, and you click on Generate new token, the system allows you to select the app for which you want to create a permanent token |
So you can click on Generate new Token, by selecting your App
Set “Never” as token expiration
In addition to the
WhatsApp_business_messaging
permission indicated in the guide, you need to add also these permits:pages_show_list
pages_messaging
WhatsApp_business_management
pages_manage_metadata
And click on "Generate Token" to obtain a permanent token to paste on auth token section
Configuration of created account
After account creation, you can edit it:
on Settings tab you will see all information inserted before
Moreover, you will view Receive URL, an auto-generated API string you need to use to receive the messages inside your account from your WhatsApp Connector provider: click the clipboard button to copy it and then on your Meta Account you need to Configure webhook
By clicking on Configure webhook, you need to insert callback URL (paste here code copied before) + verify token that you can copy from advanced tab of your XCALLY account
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To configure correctly your callback URL, your server must have HTTPS certificate |
In addition to Callback URL, it is necessary to subscribe these webhook fields:
account_alerts
account_update
message_template_status_update
messages
template_category_update
on Advanced tab
You can see info about proxy and token number
You can enable mandatory disposition and you can select Recontact Template
on Dispositions and Canned Answers you can create specific dispositions/canned answers for this account
on Actions you have to create dialplan to pass interactions to relative queue
Obviously, you have to associate agents to queue and WhatsApp account that you want, otherwise they can’t manage interactions
on Interactions tab, you can see campaign interactions and relative status (explore more here)
🔌 Use WhatsApp Connector with Meta for Agents
For Agents, the feature is available on WhatsApp Connector section, from which they have to select accounts.
In fact, agents need to be associated to the created Meta account to receive new interactions
When a new inbound interaction arrives, the agent will see a popup with information about the account, queue and sender phone number.
Agent can manage the conversation directly on Omnidesktop interface
For outbound campaigns, explore the relative section, at this link
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