Click to WhatsApp

Click-to-WhatsApp ads that land in a shared inbox

The ad opens a WhatsApp chat with your business number. Mark360.ai is where that chat is assigned, answered, and followed up. The ad itself is still created in Meta Ads Manager.

  • Chat opens on your number
  • Shared inbox
  • Template follow-up

Free plan, no credit card required. Built on the official WhatsApp Cloud API.

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Illustration of a click-to-WhatsApp ad: a Meta ad for a summer sale with a WhatsApp button opens a chat where the business asks which city the shopper is in and the shopper replies Mumbai

WhatsApp

Example chat

LeadI clicked the ad about the course.

Mark360.aiWhich city and start date should I note?

What happens after the click

The ad opens WhatsApp

Meta's click-to-WhatsApp placement starts a chat. You still build the ad in Ads Manager. Mark360.ai does not replace Ads Manager.

A bot asks the first questions

A lead-qualification flow can collect city, budget, or a date before a person joins.

A person takes the chat

Round-robin or a manual assign puts it on a rep. Unassigned shows what nobody has opened.

Shared inbox

The follow-up is a template

If the person goes quiet, a later message has to be an approved template. The free-form window does not stay open forever.

Campaigns
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Illustration of the path after a click-to-WhatsApp ad: the ad click opens WhatsApp, a bot asks a qualifying question, and the chat lands in a shared inbox assigned to a rep

WhatsApp

The ad opens WhatsApp

LeadHi, I saw the ad.

Mark360.aiWelcome. What do you want help with?

WhatsApp

A bot asks the first questions

Mark360.aiWhat budget range should I pass to the team?

LeadAround ₹50,000.

Where the ad chat is handled

These are the product screens. The pipeline and conversion setup stay empty until a chat or a dataset is actually there.

Answer the first message

A WhatsApp trigger can fire on an incoming message and send a saved reply. Set that before the ad starts, so the click does not sit unread.

First reply
Mark360 trigger builder for a WhatsApp message trigger, with trigger details, match-any-keyword conditions, and a replies column

Qualified chats have a stage

The leads pipeline starts at zero. Stages run from new to contacted, qualified, and won. Counts appear after a chat is actually there.

Leads pipeline
Mark360 leads pipeline with no leads yet. Stage counts are zero for new, contacted, qualified, and won

CAPI stays off until it is connected

Click-to-WhatsApp conversion tracking uses Meta's Conversions API. Until a dataset is configured, this screen says it is not set up and there are no event mappings.

Conversions API
Mark360 Click-to-WhatsApp conversions screen with the Conversions API not configured, no event-to-tag mappings, and a note that events fire only after a dataset is connected

Set the path up before you spend on ads

  1. 01

    Connect the number

    The number in the ad and the number in Mark360.ai have to be the same WhatsApp Business account.

  2. 02

    Write the first reply

    A bot or a saved reply should answer in the first minute. The ad click is wasted if the chat sits unread.

  3. 03

    Decide who owns it

    Round-robin, a named assignee, or a queue. Say which one before the campaign starts.

  4. 04

    Approve the follow-up

    Submit the template you will send if they do not reply inside the care window.

What this page does not promise

Click-to-WhatsApp performance depends on the ad, the offer, and how fast you reply. Mark360.ai does not publish a conversion rate for ads run by customers.

A sourced reference point: companies that tried to contact a lead within an hour were nearly seven times as likely to qualify it as those that waited longer. That is a Harvard Business Review finding from 2011, not a Mark360.ai statistic. https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-short-life-of-online-sales-leads

The drawing beside this section is an example of that path, from reply to qualified to won. The figures on it are not Mark360.ai results.

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Illustration of example click-to-WhatsApp figures: 128 ad chats, a 42 percent reply rate, 86 qualified leads, and 23 marked won, drawn as a funnel from ad click to reply to qualified to won. The figures are part of the drawing, not Mark360.ai results

Questions

The short version of what this page already says.

Talk to us

No. You create the click-to-WhatsApp ad in Meta Ads Manager. Mark360.ai receives the conversation on the connected number.

Yes. The shared inbox assigns chats by round-robin or by hand, and people can mention each other in internal notes.

Yes. Mark360.ai has a Free plan at $0/month with no credit card required. Paid plans start with Scale at $19/month billed quarterly (list price $35/month). Scale+ is $99/month. WhatsApp messages are billed per message on top of the plan. Annual billing is 10% off.

Start free on Mark360.ai

Connect your WhatsApp number on the free plan and set up the first automation. Move to Scale at $19/month billed quarterly when you need more triggers, seats or campaigns.

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