WhatsApp Integration with Salesforce: A Step-by-Step Guide for Smarter Customer Messaging

- Businesses that incorporate WhatsApp in Salesforce will be able to:
- View chat logs in real time under CRM.
- Send messages based on trigger logic out of native Salesforce workflows.
- Enhance service query response time.
- Ensure that there will be data integrity in marketing, service, and sales.
Major Platforms that provide Salesforce WhatsApp Add-on
Some vendors can offer comprehensive, enterprise-scale solutions to WhatsApp messaging within Salesforce:
- 360 SMS App: Native WhatsApp integration, templates, drip flows, and multichannel messages via SMS, Viber, KakaoTalk and the rest. It is natively built on Salesforce and enables dynamic message routing, object-based automation and regulatory controls.
- Twilio Salesforce: Supports WhatsApp API as well as programmable message flows, supporting more advanced use cases through Apex development, or third-party middleware.
- MessageBird: Cloud Communication Platform in the group of companies that incorporate WhatsApp and SMS channels into Salesforce via API-based connectors and Bots.
Step by step: WhatsApp Salesforce implementation (smart approach)
Object & Trigger Logic definition of Use Case
- Install a Salesforce-native application such as 360 SMS that supports WhatsApp as one of the channels.
- Confirm compatibility with your Salesforce version and volume requirements of messages.
- Intent authorized message templates (to be used as mandated on WhatsApp Business API).
- Sign up with and confirm your business listing and phone number with the messaging provider.
- Create business logic triggers to WhatsApp on any native Salesforce tool, e.g., Process Builder, or Flow.
- Use merge fields to send contextual messages (e.g. ). Leverage merge fields to do contextual messaging (e.g. )
- Monitor areas like success of delivery, the time of response and failure rates using dashboards.
- Create queues or alerts on messages that have to be handled manually.
Differentiating characteristics in the WhatsApp-Salesforce combination
- Intent-Based Opt-Outs: Auto-detect opt-out language from end-users across channels.
- Cross-Channel Drip Campaigns: Drip campaigns are cross-channel, and they have escalation logic within them.
- What: Click-to-Chat & Bulk Messaging: Game-changing way to launch 1:1 or 1:many WhatsApp messages from List Views or Reports.
- Consent Tracking: Track all the permissions and compliance checkpoints about WhatsApp messages in a full audit trail.
- Lead Qualification: Auto-send follow-up messages through WhatsApp depending on lead score or status change.
- Order Confirmation: Using template-based WhatsApp messages after a purchase has occurred on the Opportunity or Order object.
- Service Notifications: Case update, RMA instructions or SLA alerts via WhatsApp with full synchronicity with the Salesforce Case data.
- Make sure that you have access to WhatsApp Business API (through a provider such as 360 SMS or Twilio).
- Match your Salesforce models integration so that you do not create duplicates, or have interrupted flows.
- Choose over native-integrated platforms instead of API-patchwork to reduce development times.
- See the WhatsApp policy on messages and the approval process of templates.
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