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The 24-hour countdown in your inbox, explained
"Why can't I type?" is the most common question a new agent asks. The answer is a Meta rule, and the clock is showing it to you.
02
Quick replies: stop retyping the same answer
Your team types the same six answers all day. Ten minutes turns them into keystrokes.
03
Drafting a reply with AI, without letting it send
AI that drafts and never sends is a different proposition from a bot. This is the one an agent will actually use.
04
Sending photos, documents and voice notes
Everything works as you would expect, except one thing that makes your invoice arrive nameless.
05
Internal notes and @mentions in a chat
The conversation is the record. A note is how the next person knows what happened without reading all of it.
06
Finding a conversation again: search, tags and tidying up
Everything your customers ever told you is in there. Whether you can get it out again depends on habits, not features.
07
Assigning WhatsApp chats to the right agent
A shared inbox where everyone can see everything is a shared inbox where nobody is responsible for anything.
08
Agent shifts and out-of-hours cover
Rostered, present and available are three different things. Confusing them is why chats sit unanswered with everyone technically on duty.
09
Open, pending, resolved: conversation status that means something
Status is the cheapest reporting you will ever have, and the easiest to make meaningless.
10
Who can see what: roles in a shared WhatsApp inbox
A new agent does not need your billing page. Setting that up should take two minutes, not a policy document.
11
Measuring response time and agent workload
Most inbox dashboards flatter you. Here is how to read yours honestly.
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What to do with WhatsApp chats that arrive overnight
A Friday-evening message can be unanswerable by Monday. The fix is a queue habit, not a bigger team.
13
Handing a WhatsApp chat from the bot to a person
The bot keeps answering after your colleague has taken over. Here is why, and the two-step flow that fixes it permanently.
14
Running one WhatsApp number across a whole team
Two staff sharing one phone is the problem that pushes most stores onto the API in the first place.
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Measuring whether your WhatsApp automation actually works
A channel can report a lot of recovered carts while claiming orders that would have arrived anyway.
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Collecting satisfaction scores inside a WhatsApp chat
A rating question costs nothing to ask and catches the unhappy customer before a public review does.