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Wati Overview: Features, Channels, and Integrations

Summary

Wati is a conversation-led customer engagement platform that helps businesses manage marketing, sales, and support across multiple messaging channels. It allows teams to generate leads, automate conversations, close sales, and provide customer support from a single platform.

This article explains what Wati is, how it works, and the key features that help businesses manage customer conversations and grow their business.

Overview

Wati is designed to help businesses communicate with customers on the messaging channels they already use.

Instead of using separate tools for marketing, sales, and support, Wati brings these capabilities together in one platform. It combines messaging, automation, artificial intelligence (AI), customer relationship management (CRM), and analytics so teams can manage the entire customer journey from one place.

By centralizing conversations and automating repetitive tasks, Wati helps teams respond faster, improve customer engagement, and manage communication more efficiently.

Wati for Marketing

Wati helps marketing teams acquire and engage customers at scale using messaging channels.

With Wati, marketing teams can:

  • Run Click-to-WhatsApp ads on Meta, TikTok, and Google to convert ad clicks into live conversations

  • Capture leads from website widgets, social media comments, and contact uploads

  • Send targeted broadcast campaigns to segmented audiences

  • Automate post-conversion follow-ups using AI-powered conversation flows

  • Track ad performance, campaign results, and audience engagement from one dashboard

This helps marketing teams improve lead quality, increase response rates, and get better returns from their ad spend.

Wati for Sales

Wati gives sales teams a single workspace to qualify leads, manage pipelines, and close deals over messaging.

With Wati, sales teams can:

  • Qualify inbound leads automatically using AI agents before routing to a rep

  • Manage deals using a visual sales pipeline built into the platform

  • Run one-to-one follow-ups and retarget warm leads over WhatsApp

  • Collect payments directly within WhatsApp conversations

  • Monitor conversation quality and team activity in real time

This helps sales teams reduce their sales cycle, handle higher lead volumes, and convert more conversations into revenue.

Wati for Support

Wati helps support teams resolve customer queries faster by combining AI automation with human escalation.

With Wati, support teams can:

  • Deploy AI support agents that resolve common queries instantly, 24/7

  • Route complex conversations to the right human agent using advanced routing rules

  • Manage all incoming messages across channels from a shared team inbox

  • Add internal notes and view full conversation history to maintain context

  • Track response times, resolution rates, and agent performance with built-in analytics

This helps support teams reduce workload, improve first-response times, and maintain consistent service quality at scale.

How Wati works

Wati connects your messaging channels to a shared platform where your team can manage conversations, automate workflows, and track performance.

A typical workflow looks like this:

  • A customer contacts your business through a supported messaging channel.

  • The message appears in the Wati Team Inbox.

  • AI agents or chatbots can respond automatically, or the conversation can be assigned to a team member.

  • Customer information is stored in the built-in CRM.

  • Analytics help you track campaigns, conversations, and sales activity.

This allows teams to manage customer communication and engagement from a single platform.

Supported communication channels

Wati allows you to connect and manage conversations across multiple messaging channels, including:

  • WhatsApp (text and voice calling)

  • Instagram

  • Facebook

  • RCS (Rich Communication Services)

  • SMS (Short Message Service)

  • TikTok

  • Website chat

These channels are managed through a shared inbox, allowing your team to respond to messages without switching between different tools.

Key features

1. Lead generation tools

Wati helps businesses capture leads from multiple sources so teams can follow up quickly.

You can:

  • Run Click-to-WhatsApp ads on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Google

  • Add a WhatsApp chat widget to your website

  • Upload contact lists

  • Capture leads automatically from Instagram and Facebook comments

All leads are centralized in Wati, making it easier to track and manage new opportunities.

2. Broadcast campaigns and segmentation

Wati allows you to send targeted broadcast messages to specific customer segments.

You can:

  • Create and manage audience segments

  • Use AI-powered message templates

  • Schedule broadcast campaigns

  • Track campaign performance

This helps you deliver relevant messages to the right contacts at the right time.

3. No-code chatbots and AI automation

Wati includes a no-code chatbot builder and built-in AI features that help automate conversations and improve response times.

These include:

  • No-code chatbot builder — build automated conversation flows without writing any code

  • Astra AI agents — automated lead qualification and customer support

  • Template Assist — generates message drafts using AI

  • Real-time translation — communicate with customers across languages

  • Customer Experience Score — measures customer satisfaction

Wati CoPilot — AI that empowers your team:

  • Ask — query your workspace and data with natural language

  • Agents — background automation (alerts, tagging, reporting)

  • In-inbox tools — AI editor, summarizer, translator, CX score

Astra — autonomous AI that handles customer conversations end to end (no human agent needed)

Connect Agents — deploy your own AI model across Wati's channels

These tools help businesses scale customer communication while reducing manual workload.

4. Shared team inbox and collaboration

Wati provides a shared inbox where teams can manage conversations across all connected messaging channels.

Teams can:

  • Assign chats to specific team members

  • Add internal notes to conversations

  • View full conversation history

  • Set advanced routing rules to direct conversations to the right team

  • Monitor team performance

This helps improve response time, accountability, and collaboration across teams.

5. Multiple WhatsApp numbers

Wati supports connecting multiple WhatsApp numbers to a single account, allowing different teams, regions, or business units to operate independently while being managed from one platform.

This is useful for businesses that:

  • Run separate numbers for sales, support, or marketing

  • Operate across multiple countries or regions

  • Need to separate communication by brand or product line

6. WhatsApp Groups

Wati allows you to create and manage WhatsApp groups programmatically. You can create groups, send invitations to pending contacts, remove participants, and retrieve a list of active groups.

This is useful for businesses that need to communicate with a defined set of customers at once, such as VIP customer groups, event attendees, or cohort-based support.

7. Sales pipeline and CRM tools

Wati includes a built-in WhatsApp CRM designed to help teams manage and convert leads.

With the CRM, you can:

  • Track deals using a visual sales pipeline

  • Manage one-to-one follow-ups with prospects

  • Retarget warm leads

  • Collect payments directly within WhatsApp

This allows sales teams to manage the full sales process without switching between multiple tools.

WhatsApp Catalog

Wati supports WhatsApp Catalog, which allows businesses to showcase their products or services directly within WhatsApp conversations. Customers can browse items and make inquiries without leaving the chat.

8. Customer support and retention tools

Wati helps businesses manage ongoing customer relationships through messaging.

You can:

  • Automate support with AI agents

  • Provide faster responses to customer inquiries

  • Intelligently route complex conversations to the right human agent

  • Send re-engagement campaigns

  • Maintain long-term communication with existing customers

This helps businesses improve customer satisfaction and encourage repeat engagement.

9. Custom notifications

Wati allows you to send custom notifications to customers at key points in their journey, such as order confirmations, appointment reminders, shipping updates, and payment receipts.

Notifications can be triggered automatically based on events in your connected systems, reducing manual effort and ensuring customers receive timely updates.

10. Analytics and reporting

Wati provides analytics to help teams understand how their communication and campaigns are performing.

You can track:

  • Click-to-WhatsApp ad performance

  • Broadcast campaign results

  • Inbox activity and team response metrics

  • Sales pipeline performance

  • AI agent performance

These insights help you identify opportunities to improve customer engagement and optimize your communication strategy.

11. Integrations

Wati connects with over 100 third-party tools, allowing you to incorporate messaging into your existing workflows without rebuilding your stack.

Key integrations include:

Category

Tools

CRM

Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM

E-commerce

Shopify, WooCommerce

Automation

Zapier, Make (formerly Integromat), Pabbly Connect, Zoho Flow

Marketing

Klaviyo

Productivity

Google Sheets

Integrations allow customer data, order information, and conversation history to flow between Wati and your other business tools automatically.

Who should use Wati

Wati is suitable for businesses that:

  • Use WhatsApp or messaging channels for customer communication

  • Want to automate lead qualification or customer support

  • Need better visibility into conversations, campaigns, and sales performance

  • Want to manage marketing, sales, and support conversations in one platform

It can be used by both growing businesses and larger teams that want to scale customer communication efficiently.

Getting started with Wati

Wati brings messaging, automation, sales tools, and analytics together in one platform. By centralizing customer conversations and automating routine tasks, businesses can respond faster, improve engagement, and manage customer communication more effectively.

To get started, visit wati.io or contact the Wati team.

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