first of all thanks for publishing such a useful piece of software. As a long-term admin of our intern OTRS-instance and experienced Python/TypeScript developer I took a first look under the hood of Zammad and it`s really well structured. Great job!
We plan to migrate our intern OTRS-instance and implement a WhatsApp integration.
Is there something new on this topic?
There are a few questions before to start:
Martin mentioned a prototype over Twilio in this podcast Zammad: ein moderner Helpdesk - Cloud Podcast. But I was not able to find the prototype in the zammad-repository on GitHub.
Quepasa should not be needed any longer, right?
How should the WhatsApp-channel look like?
Do you plan it as a core-feature like the Telegram-channel or an add-on?
Is there someone who is willing to share his current achievements?
We are willing to spend some resources on this topic in 2022. But there are some more questions before to start. So if you are working on WhatsApp integration already or plan to do it in near future please reply.
I’m waiting for this too, Whatsapp is very popular in Brazil and integration like this can increase the number of adopters (not to mention Brazil is a 200 million people market).
We did communicate about whatsapp, even in this thread we did provide point of views.
What you may not understand (but have to) is that only because you open up a feature request, it doesn’t mean it’s a guaranteed coming feature.
Feature development costs a lot of time, not just for writing the code but also for specifications, verifications and such stuff. (time costs money).
We’re a fairly small team. You had and have always the option to speed up developments by inserting coins. If that’s a thing for you, contact our sales team. We in general do not provide any ETAs.
Sorry if that’s frustrating.
That’s the last time I’m gonna reply on whatsapp related threads - it’s just not bringing anybody forward.
Oh and smile, thanks for keeping us busy on several channels.
If you have whatsapp you are king I have my own open source platform I am running and I definitely know the issue with money and demand. Lots of requests but tipping in seems to be difficult. What kind of money are we talking about if I would like to get it developed?
Just a thought, how about some kind of zammad community crowd funding scheme for projects like whatapp, that way everybody who is interested can donate to the developers on a certain topic to reach a target quicker.
We’ve evaluated the new API and it indeed looks a bit better than other options.
However, for us there’s currently more important functions and behaviors on Zammad than WhatsApp.
Right now, if WhatsApp comes, this would also affect customer initiated chats only, this means you can’t initiate a WhatsApp chat towards customers.
If you wanna push this topic and it’s development, please contact sales [at] zammad [dot] com for a group founded extension.
Because Whatsapp doesn’t allow the business to initiate a conversation, only the customer can.
Actually, having a look at that page, it seems they now allow business initiated messages for collected opt-ins. But I guess the main use in Zammad is the first one.
It is also possible to initiate a WhatsApp Msg from the business side. The requirement is to use a pre-defined template. This channel could be used for e.g. to send the customer a msg that a new comment was made on the ticket, or that the status of the ticked changed.
I have my own open source platform I am running and I definitely know the issue with money and demand. Lots of requests but tipping in seems to be difficult. What kind of money are we talking about if I would like to get it developed?