WhatsApp Ops

Automate the channel your customers actually use.

WhatsApp automation for booking confirmations, ops alerts, and customer comms — without touching Meta's proprietary Business API.

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Automated Ops Flow Active
Booking #4821 confirmed for 14:00. Your PDF is attached. ✓
09:01 · Delivered Booking Confirm
Reminder: Tour departs in 2 hours. Meeting point: Pier 7. 📍
12:00 · Delivered Day-of Reminder
Internal: Group of 8 running 5 min late. Crew notified.
13:52 · Ops Alert
Thanks for joining us today! Leave us a review → [link] ⭐
16:30 · Delivered Review Request
The Problem

WhatsApp is where your
customers live. You're not keeping up.

Manual messages, delayed confirmations, and missed follow-ups are eroding customer trust one booking at a time.

01

Someone manually sends every confirmation

Your ops team copies booking data into WhatsApp. Every. Single. Time. That's 2–3 minutes per booking, multiplied by every reservation.

~3 min per booking, human error rate
02

Missed messages = lost trust

A customer waited 4 hours for a confirmation. They left a 3-star review. The booking itself was fine — the silence was the problem.

Lost reviews, lost rebookings
03

Meta's Business API is expensive and restrictive

Template messages only. Per-message fees. 24-hour conversation windows. Approval queues for every message type. It's built for enterprise, not operators.

Vendor lock-in + per-msg costs
What's Included

Every customer touch.
Automated.

Booking confirmation automation

The moment a booking lands in your system, a branded confirmation with all details goes to the customer's WhatsApp — including PDF attachment if needed.

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Ops alerts to internal team

Late arrivals, capacity changes, crew updates — pushed to your internal WhatsApp or Telegram group automatically. No more group chat chaos.

Reminder sequences

Pre-event reminder the night before. Day-of reminder 2 hours out. Meeting point, what to bring, how to cancel. All sent automatically, zero manual work.

Post-service review requests

After the service ends, a personalised review request goes out automatically. Timed correctly — not too soon, not too late. Uplift on review volume, measurably.

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Self-hosted via Waha

No Meta Business API. No per-message fees. No template approval queues. Waha runs on your server — you own the connection. Free messages, your rules.

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Telegram fallback for internal ops

Internal team notifications can run on Telegram where WhatsApp isn't ideal. One integration layer, two output channels — customer-facing and ops-facing.

Tech Stack
Booking System FareHarbor · custom API · webhook
Source
Automation Layer n8n / Cloudflare Workers
Logic
Waha (Self-hosted) WhatsApp Web bridge · no Meta API
WA
Telegram Bot Internal ops channel fallback
Ops
PDF Generation Confirmation docs attached on send
Docs
In Production
~90% Reduction in manual WhatsApp messages sent by staff
< 30s Average confirmation delivery time after booking
0 Per-message fees — self-hosted Waha
Review volume uplift from automated post-service requests

Currently deployed for service operators.

This stack — Waha + automation layer + Telegram fallback — is running in production for a service operator managing multi-person group experiences. Not a prototype.

The booking confirmation flow triggers from a webhook, formats the message, attaches the PDF if configured, and delivers to the customer's WhatsApp in under 30 seconds — fully unattended.

Internal alerts route to a Telegram group so the ops team has a clean, separate channel for time-sensitive operational information.

Waha Self-hosted n8n Automation Telegram Bot FareHarbor Webhook PDF Attachments
Pricing

Up and running in
days, not months.

Own the setup outright or subscribe to a managed service. Either way, no Meta Business API required.

SaaS / Retainer

We host it.
Messages just work.

We run the infrastructure and keep the automation running. You focus on the business — we handle uptime, updates, and connection monitoring.

  • Hosted and managed by us
  • Connection monitoring + auto-reconnect
  • Message delivery reporting
  • Flow updates included
  • Priority support on €199/mo plan
Starting from €99/mo €199/mo incl. priority support
Start Subscription  →
Next Step

See the first message
send automatically.

We'll connect to your booking system, set up a test flow, and show you a real confirmation land in a test WhatsApp — in a 45-minute call.

Book a Demo  →

Or write directly: whatsapp@orangebaytech.com