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Send guest notifications on WhatsApp

You can send your guests their booking reminders, cancellation messages and your own messages on WhatsApp — where many guests read their messages first. Each message is sent from Understory's WhatsApp account, with your company name at the top so guests know who it is from.


What is sent on WhatsApp

When WhatsApp is switched on, these messages go out on WhatsApp as well:

  • Booking reminders — sent at the time you set under Booking reminders → Time before event

  • Cancellation messages — when a booking or an event is cancelled

  • Messages you send to guests — with Message guests on an event

Guests need a phone number on their booking to receive WhatsApp messages. If phone numbers are optional on your storefront, Understory offers to require them across all your storefronts when you switch WhatsApp on.


How to switch on WhatsApp notifications

  1. Click Sales in the navigation bar – The Sales page opens

  2. Click Manage (top right) – Your booking settings open

  3. Find Guest notifications and switch on WhatsApp – A prompt shows the price per WhatsApp message

  4. Accept the price – WhatsApp notifications are on

  5. Choose which notifications to send on WhatsApp


What it costs

WhatsApp messages are charged per message sent. You pay €0.07 per message sent to a guest. Messages are added to your invoice at the end of the month.

Text messages (SMS) are a separate setting just above WhatsApp, and you can use both at the same time.


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