WhatsApp for SaaS & startups

Onboarding messages users actually open

Your onboarding emails compete with everything else in the inbox. Recoverly brings WhatsApp for SaaS teams onto Meta's official platform: trial onboarding triggered by real product events, activation nudges that stop the moment a user hits the milestone, demo reminders, billing notices, and AI support with a human behind it.

Triggers from product events Webhooks & Zapier AI support with handover
98%
read rate on WhatsApp, against roughly 20% for email
~50%
fewer demo no-shows with a reminder the day before
0
per-seat fees: support, success and sales share one flat plan
2 min
to connect a WhatsApp Business number, no engineering sprint
The problem

Where SaaS trials go quiet

Trials rarely end with a no. They end in silence: a setup step skipped, a demo forgotten, a card that expired without anyone noticing.

Onboarding emails nobody opens

Your 7-email welcome sequence lands between newsletters and receipts. The user who needed step 2 never saw it, and the trial ran out on its own.

Demo slots that go unused

A prospect books a demo from your pricing page, forgets, and your AE waits on an empty call. Rescheduling takes three more emails.

Churn from expired cards

A payment fails, the dunning email goes to spam, and a customer who liked your product churns by accident.

Automations

WhatsApp for SaaS: automations triggered by product events

Send events from your app through a webhook or Zapier. Each flow waits, checks a condition, and stops the moment the user does what you wanted.

Trial onboarding and activation nudges

Signup starts the sequence; product events steer it. Pick the milestone that predicts conversion, like a first integration or invite. Nudges go out at 24 and 72 hours without it and stop when your app sends the event.

Demo confirmations and reminders

Calendly or Cal.com bookings get an instant confirmation, a day-before reminder with one-tap confirm or reschedule, and the join link an hour out.

How it works →

Billing and dunning reminders

Card expiring, payment failed, trial ending: utility notices with a link to the billing page, triggered from Stripe or your billing system via Zapier or a webhook.

Churn-risk check-ins

Usage halves or a champion goes inactive: your app sends the event and a check-in goes out in the CSM's name. Replies land in the shared inbox, assigned to that CSM.

Feature announcements to opted-in users

Tell the users who opted in to product updates, or only a tagged segment like accounts on your top plan. Replies become feedback threads in the inbox.

How it works →

Support triage with AI and human handover

The AI answers how-to questions from your FAQs and guidelines, labels bug reports and billing questions, and hands the thread to a human when it should.

How it works →
Playbook

A 14-day trial that runs on product events

Time-based drips send the same email to the user who's flying and the one who's stuck. Event-driven messages reach only the user who needs them and stop on their own; the automation builder handles the waits and branches.

  • Minute 0 · signup. Welcome plus the single next step, with a button straight to it.
  • Hour 24 · not activated. The most common blocker and its one-line fix.
  • Hour 72 · still stuck. An offer to book a 15-minute setup call, with reminders once booked.
  • Trial ending · billing event. A utility notice with plan options and the billing link.
  • Any reply. The AI answers first; a human takes over in the inbox.
Trial · Priya N. · Acme Analytics · day 3
Welcome · signup
read 16:21 · tapped Connect a source
read
Nudge · 24h
skipped · source connected 16:44
stopped
Event: first_dashboard_created
via webhook · tagged activated
event
Trial ending notice
waits for trial_will_end from Stripe
waiting
Getting started

Live this week

01

Connect your WhatsApp number

Continue with Meta and confirm a WhatsApp Business number, new or existing. Coexistence keeps the WhatsApp Business app working on the team phone.

02

Send product events

Post signup, activation and billing events to a signed webhook, or connect Stripe, HubSpot and your app through Zapier. Event properties become message variables.

03

Collect opt-in and publish

Add a WhatsApp checkbox next to the phone field at signup, switch on the flows, and set quiet hours in the user's timezone.

Templates

Messages that get replies

Use them as-is or edit the copy; Recoverly submits templates to Meta for approval.

Welcome · next step
Stuck on setup · 24h
Demo · 1h before
Card expiring
Trial ending
FAQ

WhatsApp for saas & startups, asked and answered

For the moments email keeps missing: onboarding, activation, demo reminders, billing notices, churn-risk check-ins and support. Product events trigger each message, so it reaches the right user at the right step and stops when they get there.
Yes. Post an event such as signup, integration_connected or payment_failed to the automation's signed webhook, or send it through Zapier from Stripe, HubSpot or your backend. Event properties become template variables; a later event can stop the flow. Webhooks and Zapier are on Pro.
Yes. Add a WhatsApp checkbox at signup or in account settings; each contact keeps a record of where consent came from. Billing and account notices go out as utility templates, while announcements and win-back are marketing. STOP is honored instantly across every flow.
It answers from the FAQs and guidelines you give it and is told to defer rather than guess. Bug reports, billing disputes and anything it doesn't know go to a human in the shared inbox, labeled for the right person. See the AI chatbot.
It depends on your users. WhatsApp is the everyday messaging app across much of Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. In the US it's common but far from universal, so offer it as a channel at signup.
Most SaaS teams need Pro at $49/month, since product events arrive through webhooks and Zapier; it also adds priority support. No per-seat fees, no message caps. Meta bills template fees at cost; the first 1,000 replies a month inside the 24-hour window are free. See pricing and the API pricing guide.

Put onboarding where users actually read.

Connect a WhatsApp Business number, send your first product event, and watch trial users reach the milestone that matters.

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