WhatsApp Booking Integration by Alpha Expansion
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WhatsApp Booking Integration

Every booking,confirmed and remembered

We connect your booking system to the WhatsApp Business Platform, so customers can book, confirm, move or cancel an appointment in a chat, and every change lands in the calendar your staff already use.

Bookings by chatReminders confirmedCalendar kept true
Bookings by chat
Reminders confirmed
01Our Approach

An appointment made by message is only real when it sits in the calendar, with the right service, the right person and no double booking.

02Overview

Appointments booked and managed in a chat

  • 01Bookings by chat
  • 02Reminders confirmed
  • 03Calendar kept true

WhatsApp booking integration lets a customer arrange an appointment by messaging your business number. A guided conversation offers services and free times read from your booking system, takes the choice and writes the appointment back. Reminders go out as approved templates with buttons to confirm, reschedule or cancel. Each reply updates the calendar at once. We build on Meta's Cloud API and the interface of the booking system you run.

It suits clinics, salons, service centres and any business where customers already ask for appointments by message and staff type them in by hand. The platform has rules that shape the design. Reminders are business-initiated, so they need an approved template and the customer's agreement, and Meta charges for them. Anything sensitive, such as a medical detail, stays out of the chat and inside your own system.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

01
Live availability

Free times are read from your booking system at the moment of asking, for the chosen service, branch and member of staff, so no taken slot is offered.

02
Guided booking flow

Buttons and lists lead the customer through service, place, day and time in a few taps, with typed answers understood where a customer prefers to write.

03
Confirm and reschedule

Reminder messages carry buttons to confirm, move or cancel, and each choice updates the appointment and frees or fills the slot without anyone at the desk.

04
Handover to staff

A request the flow cannot handle, or a customer who asks for a person, passes to reception with the conversation so far and the customer's upcoming appointments.

05
No-show follow-up

Missed appointments can trigger one polite message offering to rebook, sent only to customers who agreed to it and recorded against the appointment.

06
Consent and privacy

Opt-in is recorded with its date, messages carry only the details needed to identify the appointment, and stop requests end all reminders immediately.

04In The App

Details Users Can Feel

Booking chat

A customer choosing a service and a free time by button.

Reminder message

Tomorrow's appointment with buttons to confirm, move or cancel.

Reception view

A conversation handed to staff with the customer's bookings shown.

Booking report

Appointments made, confirmed, moved and missed through the channel.

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05What You Receive

Handed Over, Ready to Run

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Conversation design for booking
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Templates submitted for approval
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Integration service with source code
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Live link to your calendar
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Reminder and confirmation flow
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Handover rules for reception
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Report on bookings and no-shows
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Runbook and staff training
06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

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Study the desk
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Check the systems
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Build the flow
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Open gradually
01
Study the desk

We watch how appointments are requested and entered today, list the services and rules that make a slot valid, and agree which requests the chat handles and which go to a person.

02
Check the systems

The booking system's interface is tested for reading availability and writing appointments, and your business number is registered on the platform with templates submitted for approval.

03
Build the flow

Booking, reminders, rescheduling and handover are built and tested against a copy of your calendar, including two customers choosing the same slot and a branch that closes early.

04
Open gradually

The flow starts with one branch or one service, reception keeps watching the conversations, and wording and rules are adjusted before every other location is added.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

WhatsApp sideCloud APIWebhooksInteractive messagesMessage templatesIntegration serviceNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLMessage queuesWhatsApp sideCloud APIWebhooksInteractive messagesMessage templatesIntegration serviceNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLMessage queues
Booking sideBooking system APIsGoogle Calendar APIMicrosoft Graph calendarCustom scheduling APIsOperationsConversation logsTemplate statusNo-show reportingAlertingBooking sideBooking system APIsGoogle Calendar APIMicrosoft Graph calendarCustom scheduling APIsOperationsConversation logsTemplate statusNo-show reportingAlerting
08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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Reception spends the day typing in message bookings

Customers ask for appointments on WhatsApp and staff copy each one into the calendar between phone calls. Reminders are sent by hand or forgotten. Cancellations arrive late, slots stay empty and nobody can say how many bookings came through messaging.

Clinics and dental practices
Salons and beauty studios
Car service centres
Home service companies
Fitness and wellness studios
Businesses with several branches
09Questions

What buyers ask before they start

If yours is not here, ask us directly. The first conversation is free and useful whether or not we work together.

Book a call

Yes, when your booking system offers an interface for reading free times and creating appointments, which we test before anything else. The chat reads availability live and writes the appointment at the moment the customer confirms. Where a system has no interface, we can hold requests for reception to accept, though that removes much of the benefit and we say so plainly.

The appointment is created in your booking system, which remains the single authority, and the slot is checked again at the instant of confirmation. If another customer or a receptionist took it a moment earlier, the chat apologizes and offers the nearest free times. Nothing is confirmed to the customer until the booking system has accepted it.

They are, as approved template messages sent to customers who opted in. Meta's documentation places such reminders in a utility category and charges per delivered message at rates that vary by country. We keep reminders factual, since a template that reads as promotion can be recategorized or rejected, and we report what each one costs.

For arranging the time, yes, with care. The chat should carry no clinical information, and what counts as health data in a message differs between countries. We limit messages to the appointment itself, keep details inside your own system and review the wording and consent with your data protection adviser before a clinic goes live.

Of course. The chat is one more door into the same calendar, beside the phone, your website and the front desk. Because every channel writes to one booking system, availability stays correct whichever a customer uses. Many businesses find that messaging takes the routine bookings and leaves the phone for conversations that need a person.

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