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Reach parents and students where they already read their messages
Admissions questions, fee reminders, timetable changes and results notices all run on WhatsApp, SMS and email from one console, with your office staff answering from a shared inbox.
Admission enquiries answered at any hour
During admissions, the same questions arrive again and again: which courses you run, what the fees are, which documents to bring, when the deadline is. A chatbot built on the Flow Builder can answer these with buttons and lists, collect the applicant's name, course and contact details, and pass serious enquiries to your admissions team.
Add AI answering on top and the bot can reply to free-text questions from your own prospectus and FAQ documents.
- Course list as a menu, with fees and requirements per course
- Applicant answers saved to the contact for follow-up
- Handover to a counsellor when a parent asks for a person
Fee reminders parents actually see
Send fee reminders as approved Utility templates with the student's name, the amount due and the due date filled in for each parent. A URL button can open your own payment page, and replies such as 'I paid yesterday' land in the inbox for the accounts office.
Notices to the right group
Tag contacts by class, year or campus and send exam timetables, holiday notices or event invitations to only that segment. Each campaign shows how many messages were delivered and read, so you know which parents did not see it and may need a call.
Forms instead of paper
WhatsApp Flows let parents fill a short multi-screen form inside the chat: a trip consent, a transport request or a feedback survey. The answers come back structured, not as a pile of free-text replies.
One office, one number
Admissions, accounts and the front office can all answer on the same WhatsApp number. Chats are assigned and transferred between staff, and anyone can reply from the web or the Android app.
Questions people ask
Can we message all parents at once?
Yes, using an approved template to parents who have opted in. Opt-in can be collected at admission, on a form or through a click-to-chat link.
Can parents reply to a notice?
Yes. Replies arrive in the shared inbox, and staff can answer freely for 24 hours from the parent's last message.
What about parents who do not use WhatsApp?
Send the same notice by SMS from your own approved sender ID in Zambia and Tanzania, or by email from your school's domain.
Can the chatbot answer questions about our courses?
Yes. Build menus for common questions, and use AI answering to reply from your own documents such as the prospectus or fee schedule.
How are messages charged?
From a pay-as-you-go wallet. Each message is priced by country and category, and each number gets 1,000 free WhatsApp service messages a month.
Keep reading
WhatsApp chatbot
Build WhatsApp chatbots on a visual canvas with buttons, lists, questions, conditions and API calls, then run the real flow in Test Flow before it goes live.
Read more FeatureWhatsApp forms
Collect structured answers inside WhatsApp with multi-screen forms built on WhatsApp Flows. Sign-ups, surveys and bookings, without sending people to a site.
Read more FeatureBroadcasting
Send approved WhatsApp templates to opted-in contacts, now or on a schedule, and see sent, delivered, read, replied and failed counts for every campaign.
Read more FeatureTeam inbox
One shared inbox for every WhatsApp conversation. Assign, transfer and resolve chats, see the 24-hour reply window, and answer from the web or the Android app.
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