WhatsApp Inbox

One WhatsApp Inbox for Every Customer Conversation

Stay responsive, organised and efficient with a shared WhatsApp inbox. Manage customer conversations in one place, so your team can continue conversations without juggling multiple phones.

For support teams who answer WhatsApp together, and who need to see what the AI already said before they reply.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certifiedAnyone with project access sees the same inboxMessages and contacts stay in Robofy
Overview

What is the WhatsApp Inbox?

The WhatsApp Inbox brings customer conversations into one shared workspace inside Robofy, so your team can pick up a thread without switching between phones.

  • Anyone with project access sees the same inbox
  • Customer conversation history in one place
  • AI Agent and human replies in the same thread
  • View and edit contact details inside the inbox
  • Media messages are supported
  • Conversations can be searched
Shared inbox

View customer WhatsApp conversations in one place.

Contact panel

View and edit customer details directly inside the inbox.

AI + human thread

AI Agent messages and human replies stay together in the same conversation.

Media support

Send and receive images, video, audio and documents.

WhatsApp Rules

The 24-Hour Window, Handled for You

Reply normally while WhatsApp’s 24-hour customer care window is open. Once it closes, continue the conversation using an approved WhatsApp template.

Reply within 24 hours

You can reply to customer messages normally for 24 hours after the customer’s latest message.

Use approved templates after 24 hours

Once the 24-hour window closes, the normal composer is unavailable. The conversation must continue using an approved WhatsApp template.

The 24-hour customer care window opens only after the customer messages you first. If the customer has never messaged you, start the conversation using an approved template.
Send a New Message

Start a Conversation in Three Steps

Start a new WhatsApp conversation using an approved template.

Send a New Message

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Inside the Inbox

AI and Your Team, in the Same Conversation

See the customer message, the AI Agent response and the human reply together, with contact information available alongside the conversation.

What You Can See and Send

Everything you need to manage WhatsApp customer conversations in one place.

View all conversations

See customer WhatsApp messages in one shared inbox.

AI Agent messages

AI Agent responses are clearly labelled inside the conversation.

Media support

Send and receive images, video, audio and documents.

Captions are supported for everything except audio.

Per-message status

See delivery status, sending state and failed-send alerts.

Search conversations

Search by profile name, phone number or last message text.

Contact panel

View and edit customer contact details without leaving the inbox.

45-second sync

New messages appear on the next 45-second polling cycle. You can also refresh manually.

Shared access

Anyone with project access sees the same inbox.

Conversation assignment and per-conversation AI pause are not available yet.

Why Robofy

Why Not Just Use WhatsApp on a Phone?

A phone works well for individual conversations. A shared inbox becomes more useful when customer conversations need to be visible across a business.

WhatsApp on a phone compared with Robofy WhatsApp Inbox
FeatureWhatsApp on a PhoneRobofy WhatsApp Inbox
Shared accessPrimarily device/account basedAnyone with project access sees the inbox
Conversation historyHarder to share across multiple peopleCustomer conversations stay in one workspace
SearchStandard WhatsApp searchSearch profile name, phone number and last message text
AI AgentNot availableAI Agent messages appear in the same thread
Contact detailsManaged separatelyContact details are available directly inside the inbox
MediaStandard WhatsApp mediaImages, video, audio and documents remain in the conversation
Message delivery informationStandard status indicatorsPer-message delivery status, sending state and failure alerts

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The inbox comes with your WhatsApp API account. See plans and pricing.

For Technical Evaluators

What a Technical Evaluator Needs to Know

  • Built on the official WhatsApp Business API
  • Handles WhatsApp’s 24-hour customer care window
  • Uses approved WhatsApp templates after the 24-hour window
  • Supports image, video, audio and document messages
  • Captions are supported except for audio
  • File names are preserved
  • Per-message delivery status is available
  • Sending state and failed-send alerts are shown
  • Inbox updates on a 45-second polling cycle
  • Manual refresh is available
  • Search covers profile name, phone number and last message text
  • Anyone with project access sees the same inbox
  • AI Agent replies are labelled inside the conversation
  • Contact details can be viewed and edited inside the inbox
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What teams ask before they move their replies into one place.

Can I reply to a customer at any time?

Only while the 24-hour window is open, which WhatsApp defines as the period after the customer's most recent message to you. Robofy checks the timestamp of their last message and, once more than 24 hours have passed, disables the composer and tells you to send an approved template instead. That rule comes from WhatsApp, not from Robofy, and the inbox enforces it so a message cannot silently fail.

How do I start a conversation with someone who has not messaged me?

Through New Conversation, which walks three steps: enter the recipient's number with its country code and no plus sign, choose an approved template, then fill in any placeholder values. A preview shows the template with your values before it sends. You cannot open a cold conversation with free text, because WhatsApp does not allow it.

Does the inbox show messages my AI agent sent?

Yes. The AI's replies and human replies sit in the same thread, in order, and anything the AI sent is labelled "AI Agent" so you can tell at a glance who said what before you join the conversation.

What can I send besides text?

Images, video, audio and documents. Images and video open full screen in the inbox, documents keep their filename for download, and you can attach a caption to anything except audio, which WhatsApp does not support captions on.

How quickly do new messages appear?

The conversation list refreshes itself in the background every 45 seconds without interrupting what you are typing, and shows when it last synced. There is also a Refresh now button when you do not want to wait.

How do I know a message actually sent?

Each message you send carries its own status: a clock while it is in flight, and an alert icon if it failed, so a failure is visible on the message itself rather than being buried in a log somewhere.

Can I find an old conversation?

Search filters your conversations by the customer's profile name, their phone number, or the text of the last message, so you can find a thread whether you remember who it was or only what it was about.

Can I add someone to my contacts from the inbox?

Yes. The contact panel looks the number up as you open a conversation. If there is no contact yet it offers to create one from that panel, and if there is, you can edit their details and save without leaving the inbox. Either way it writes to the same contact records your campaigns use.

Does opening a conversation clear its unread count?

Yes. Unread counts show on each conversation in the list, up to 99+, and opening one with unread messages marks it read automatically.

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Pick Up Where the AI Left Off

Bring customer conversations into one inbox, let your AI Agent handle routine replies, and continue the conversation when a person needs to step in.

Bring every WhatsApp conversation into one inbox.

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