WhatsApp campaigns
WhatsApp campaigns send approved template messages to your contacts at scale — reminders, confirmations, and updates that benefit from WhatsApp’s high open rates. Every outbound campaign message must use a template that Meta has already approved.
When and why to use it
Use WhatsApp for short, timely, high-priority messages: a “doors open in 1 hour” reminder, a confirmation, or a sponsor update. For longer, designed content to a broad list, use Email campaigns instead.
Before you start
- Connect your WhatsApp Business Account. WhatsApp campaigns only work once your WABA is granted to Novex — see WhatsApp Business.
- Get templates approved. Meta requires every non-conversational message
to be a pre-approved template. Submit and track templates from the WhatsApp
integration — approval ranges from minutes (
UTILITY/AUTHENTICATION) to up to 24 hours (MARKETING). See WhatsApp Business → Submit message templates.
Send a campaign
- Open the WhatsApp module and start a new campaign.
- Pick the audience — event registrants, sponsor contacts, or a marketing list.
- Choose an approved template and the language variant.
- Fill the placeholders — map each
{{1}},{{2}}, … to data such as first name or event name. - Schedule for now or a future time, then send.
Novex queues each message and rate-limits to stay under your WABA’s throughput tier (Meta tiers you 250 → 1k → 10k → 100k → unlimited based on quality and opt-ins).
Quality and opt-outs
- Contacts who opted out are skipped silently — they aren’t even queued.
- Inbound replies arrive on the platform webhook and attach to the contact’s record in Novex.
- If Meta lowers your quality rating, Novex flags it so you can throttle back before limits tighten.
Tips & limits
- You cannot free-type a marketing blast — only approved templates send. Plan template approval ahead of a campaign.
- Submit a separate template per language (e.g. English and Arabic).
- Keep
MARKETINGtemplates genuinely useful; repeated blocks or low-quality flags reduce your sending tier. - Test with a small internal audience before a full send to confirm placeholder mapping.