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WhatsApp Automation for Hotels: Reply in Minutes, Follow Up for Weeks

The direct enquiry that arrives on WhatsApp at nine at night is the most valuable lead a property receives, because no commission is attached to it. It is also the one most likely to sit unanswered until morning, by which time the guest has booked through an app out of sheer convenience. WhatsApp automation acknowledges it immediately, keeps the follow-up running through the proposal weeks that decide a banquet, and stands down the moment a person replies.

Quick at the start, silent after the inspection

Speed solves only the first half. A property that replies within minutes still loses the enquiry three weeks later, because a banquet or a corporate booking is not decided in a single exchange. The proposal goes out, and from there the follow-up depends on a coordinator who is running an event this weekend remembering a family whose date falls in November.

After the stay the silence is total. The guest checks out, the review is never requested, and six months pass without a message from a property they genuinely liked. The next time they need a room in your city they open an app instead of a chat, and you pay commission on a relationship you already had. Nothing about that is difficult; it simply needed someone assigned to the Tuesday it should have happened on.

Sequences that run off the pipeline

The triggers come from your own records: a new enquiry, a stage change, a stalled deal, a date passing. A banquet enquiry gets an immediate acknowledgement asking for the date and guest count the sales desk will need. A completed inspection fires a thank-you the same evening. A proposal that has not moved gets a check-in on day three and day seven. A checkout triggers a review request the following day, and a guest who has not returned in six months enters a re-engagement flow. Every step uses Meta-approved templates from the property number and exits on reply.

More on the capability itself: WhatsApp Automation. More on this industry: CRM for hotels.

From a nine o'clock enquiry to an inspection

A guest messages the property asking about a hall for an engagement in December.

  1. 1An acknowledgement goes out within a minute, asking for the date and an approximate guest count.
  2. 2The guest's reply stops the sequence and opens the thread for the sales desk in the morning.
  3. 3After the inspection, the stage change fires a thank-you with the proposal attached.
  4. 4If nothing has moved by day three, one check-in message goes out and a call task is raised.

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Questions teams ask

Put your own week through it

Import last month's enquiries and replay them through this workflow. It takes an afternoon and tells you more than a demo will.