How to Configure WhatsApp with your Online Store
Sales Channel
Use the WhatsApp Conversational Commerce sales channel to drive more sales and reach a wider audience! With this app, you can send order notifications to the customers that opt-in for that choice during checkout.
Why should you consider it as an important sales channel for your business? Well, here are some stats:
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81% of people message a business to ask about a product or service.
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74% of people message a business to make a purchase.
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75% message a business to get support for a product or service.
As of today, it exclusively uses a Jumpseller number to send all notifications. As a store owner you have the option to include a link at the bottom of every message that redirects the customer to your business/personal whatsapp account.
Content
- Benefits of this Sales Channel
- Conditions to send Notifications
- How to Install
- Pricing and Store Credit
- FAQs
Benefits of this Sales Channel
Some of the main benefits of this Sales Channel for your store are:
- Notify your customers in real time, regarding the status of their orders;
- Send payment information through a WhatsApp message (example: ATM reference, transaction information, etc.) to make it easier for the client to pay, even when he loses access to the internet;
- Increase in sales due to the recovery of abandoned orders, through a notification with a link sent to WhatsApp;
- Facilitate a more direct and personal contact with your clients after the checkout.
Conditions to send Notifications
The different types of notifications are only sent if all these conditions apply:
- The phone number custom field needs to be activated in the checkout settings.
- The checkout custom field to receive the whatsapp notifications must be checked by the customer during checkout.
- The client must input a valid number in the checkout custom field of the phone number (this includes the country code / international number e.g. +351 911911911, we recommend that you use version 2 of checkout since there is a special field for the country code, to ensure that the phone number is properly set).
- All the fields necessary to send the message can’t be empty.
Types of Notifications
We currently have 4 different types of notifications:
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Order Abandoned - When an order changes to the abandoned status we send a message (which includes a link to the abandoned order). The following variables are included in the message: store_name, customer_name, recover_order_url.
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Order Confirmed - When an order changes to the paid status we send the message. The following variables are included in the message: store_name, customer_name, order_number, order_total (currency depending on the template).
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Order Information - When an order changes to the pending_payment status we send a message. The following variables are included in the message: store_name, customer_name, order_number, order_total, payment_method and payment_details. The store owner can choose the payment methods that will trigger this notification. Currently only activated for the payment methods: manual, ifthenpay_multibanco, sibs_multibanc.
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Order Shipped - When an order changes to the shipped status we send a message. The following variables are included in the message: store_name, order_number, shipping_address and shipping_method.
There are also other messages that we send:
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Auto-reply - sent when a customer sends a whatsapp message to the Jumpseller Bot number.. We will proceed to look for the last store the customer interacted with through Whatsapp and send an auto-reply message containing the link for direct conversation (wa.me link) and an url to the store.
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Unsubscribe Message - sent as a success auto-reply message if the client unsubscribes the promotional notifications (this is only an option for order abandoned notifications at the moment).
How to Install
- From your admin panel, go to Sales Channels from the left menu and install WhatsApp Notifications.
- It will be prompted to accept the app to access a certain amount of scopes (e.g. read orders).
- A new screen will be prompted. When setup is done it will automatically create a Checkout Custom Field of checkbox type in the Contact part for the clients to opt-in on the checkout process. We recommend that you make the phone field required in the checkout settings to prevent customers from forgetting to fill this field.
Configure Settings
You can activate each of the notifications available. When activating an option it will automatically create a webhook for that specific notification in the store (e.g. Order Confirmed notification will create a webhook for the Order Paid).
You can activate the option to include a link to talk directly to your WhatsApp account:
You need to enter next a valid number with the + and the country code (all numbers and without special chars). This will only be a wa.me link (wa.me link explained).
Inside each type of notification there are some extra, more specific, options:
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Message Template - you can see the template of the message that will be sent. It includes variables between that will be changed with the values corresponding to that notification
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Test Message - Each customer starts with 5 global test messages. The number that appears is the number introduced in the previous page. Here you can send a whatsapp test message for your own number to see it work.
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Message Settings - some notifications include extra settings. Example: Order Information includes an option for which manual payment methods will be sent the message).
Once the service starts working, your clients will receive messages through WhatsApp like this:
You can also suspend the service to disable the app, this will automatically delete the checkout custom field created during the application setup.
Statistics
There is also a section inside the Application where you can track message statistics.
In the top of this section you will see the amount of existing messages for each state (sent, failed, delivered, read). By default the statistics shown are relative to the last 30 days for all messages statuses and types. You can change these filters according to the information you wish to be displayed.
The messages displayed are also influenced by the filters selected. Each row represents a single message and contains detailed information regarding it: type, associated order, phone number, date and also a column indicating whether the message is paid or not (more about this is the pricing section).
Failed messages have a retry button at the end of the row, by clicking this button our system will try to resend the failed message.
Pricing and Store Credit
You can use store credit to pay for these messages. In order for the service to work your balance needs to be positive.
You are able to send 5 test messages from the set templates when you enable this App. This will you allow you to check if the integration is working as intended.
Each message sent has a fixed cost based on the receiver country. Additionally Jumpseller charges a 0.01€ fee for each paid message. We later convert the total price to the store’s currency.
Cost per Message in EUR
| Country Where the Message is Received | Cost per Message |
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| Chile | € 0.0524 |
| Colombia | € 0.0089 |
| Brazil | € 0.0422 |
| Portugal | € 0.0671 |
FAQs
Why are this paid messages?
In order to be able to provide this feature, we use WhatsApp Business, a paid service owned by WhatsApp, which charges for each message of this type sent.
This sales channel allows only unidirectional (store > customer) or bidirectional communication (store - customer and customer - store)?
This sales channel works in both ways, taking into account that, for example, one message sent to the customer, saying the order has been payed, includes a link to enter a chat with your store’s WhatsApp number. Besides that, in case a customer replies to the message sent, a link is auntomcativally sent to enter into chat with your store.
Is it necessary to have a phone number to associate to WhatsApp Business?
No, it’s not necessary, because currently the number from which the WhatsApp messages are sent to your client, is a number belonging to Jumpseller.
Is it possible to personalize the message to be sent to the customers?
No, currently it is only possible to use one of the 4 message notification templates.
When a customer receives a message, what is the name that appears as the sender?
Right now, a non-identifiable number appears, which belongs to Jumpseller, in the future the store’s will appear.
For more information about pricing and eligible countries visit Facebook Support.
We are here to help you, so if you have any questions, you can contact us at any time.