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The Home screen is a grid of nine cards, and the bar at the bottom has four tabs — Home, Commerce, Reports and Config. That is all the navigation there is. Every card belongs to one tab, and opening it lights that tab up.

The card says WhatsApp Bulk Campaign; the screen it opens is titled WhatsApp Automation. Same thing.

Do not remove the app from Linked devices in WhatsApp unless you mean to. If the link goes, the app asks for a new QR code before it can send again — but your lists, reports and settings are untouched.

An audience group is your own list, lives in this app, and gives each person a separate private message. A WhatsApp group is a real group chat, lives in WhatsApp, and every member sees the message and each other. You can copy the members of one into the other.

Five questions: does the file already carry a country code, is the first row titles, which column is the name and which the number, which extra columns to keep, and a review. Question 1 matters most — answering it wrong is what turns local numbers into a different country.

A birthday, a plan, a renewal date kept from your spreadsheet shows on that person's card, can be dropped into a message, and turns up in Upcomings when the day comes round. Tag somebody vip and they are vip in every list they appear in — then Segments builds a new list from that tag.

The same ticked people can go to Save to audience group, Export .vcf (added to your phone's address book) or Export to Excel (a spreadsheet you can edit and import back later). Nothing is sent by any of them. Use the spreadsheet route when you want to add birthdays or other details before importing.

Two limits come from WhatsApp, not the app. Hidden members: their number is never released, so they cannot be added and are not counted in what you save — the screen says how many. Unnamed members: WhatsApp only supplies a name for people it has told your phone about, so the rest arrive as a number, which still sends perfectly. Names fill in on their own once somebody writes to you.

Everyone in the group sees the message, and sees that you sent it to the group. Group members never agreed to hear from you individually — so use Send to groups for groups that exist for announcements, and extract the members instead when the message is really meant for one person. Create campaign sends nothing by itself: it builds a campaign aimed at those groups and opens it for you to write.

The Personalize chips write a placeholder correctly. Typing one by hand is easy to misspell, and a misspelled placeholder simply arrives empty — with no warning, in a message already sent. Add variation lets you write the same message two, three or four ways so a few hundred people do not all get identical text.

The app runs one at a time on purpose. If a new campaign is refused, an old one is still running, paused or stuck, and the card will offer to stop it. Keep the app open while a run is going: if your phone stops it in the background the card says Interrupted, and Resume carries on from where it stopped.

A new run messages the whole list, including the people it reached before. To chase only the people who did not answer, use Follow up on the report instead.

Sent means WhatsApp took the message and has not confirmed delivery yet. Failed usually means the number is not on WhatsApp or has no country code. Skipped means the app chose not to send — they unsubscribed, or they are on your blocklist.

A follow-up goes to the people this run reached who have not written back, and the list is worked out at the moment it sends — somebody who replies in between is dropped from it automatically.

Replies are captured only while the app is open. On an older contact, read a zero as "we were not watching", not as proof they stayed silent.

Seven ready-made flows — a greeting menu, an after-hours reply, a price enquiry, lead capture, order status, appointment requests, out-of-office — arrive fully written in your language. Several collect an answer and then hand the conversation to you, which is usually the right shape.

A flow only answers when the master switch and its own switch are both on, and only while the app is running. If you need replies around the clock, the desktop version is the one that keeps going.

If the person you are answering also has an automatic responder, the two can reply to each other endlessly. The app spots that and pauses just that chat; it stays paused until you resume it, because the other side's responder is usually still on.

The app never sends a birthday message by itself. Tap the send button on a row and WhatsApp opens with a message already written, which you can edit first. Open Upcomings when you start the day.

Tapping send on a product opens the campaign editor with the picture attached and the details already written into the message. A product with no photo cannot be sent this way — the message is built around the picture.

Tags are yours and live only in this app; labels come from WhatsApp Business and are only copied here. They are kept apart so removing one never fights the other. On a freshly linked number no labels show until WhatsApp first tells the app about one.

Every setting arrives on and set to a sensible value. Raise one thing a little, then watch for a few days. The cost of sending too fast is not a slow campaign — it is a number that stops working.

Blocks and reports from recipients are what WhatsApp acts on fastest. Message people who gave you their number, keep the unsubscribe line on, honour every stop request, grow gradually, and write like a person. Do not buy a list, jump from a small send to a huge one, or add somebody back after they unsubscribed.

Unsubscribe data holds both the line added to your messages and the words watched for in a reply, ready in every language the app speaks. If you tell people to reply CANCEL, add CANCEL there — otherwise it is not recognised. Several wordings are kept and used in turn; %1$s is where your keyword goes.

A number stored as 82811 26956 with no country code is completed using it. Set it to yours before an import that carries local numbers.

Back up my data writes a copy of your campaigns, contacts and history. Restoring replaces everything currently in the app and takes effect the next time it starts — so take a backup of what you have now first, even if you think you do not need it.

It prepares an email to support with the technical detail needed to diagnose a fault. You see exactly what it contains first: no phone numbers, no contact names, no message text, and nothing leaves until you press send in your own email app.

Another campaign is still running, paused or stuck — the app sends one at a time. Open WhatsApp Bulk Campaign and stop the old card. If it names a campaign you cannot find, it offers to stop that for you.

Your phone stopped the app in the background. Tap Resume and it carries on. Then allow the app to run in the background, both in Android settings and in your phone's own battery manager if it has one.

Almost always the numbers, not the app: no country code, or not on WhatsApp. Open the report, tap Failed and read them. If they all look like local numbers, import the file again and answer no to the country-code question.

Replies are captured only while the app is running. Keep it open during and after a campaign. Messages that arrived while it was closed stay in WhatsApp itself and do not appear here later.

The app guessed, and offers the guess for you to correct at question 3. Import again and set the name and number columns yourself, then delete the wrong list.

The file held local numbers and the app was told they already carried a country code. Import again, answer no at question 1, and pick your country.

WhatsApp has never told your phone that person's name and they are not in your address book. Nothing is broken — names fill in as people write to you. You can also import a sheet with a name column, or type one on the person's card.

The master switch is off, that flow's own switch is off, the app is closed, or that chat was paused. Check both switches on Flow Bots, keep the app open, and look in Paused chats.

The other side has an automatic responder too, and the app stopped the two answering each other forever. Open Flow Bots ▸ Paused chats and tap Resume — then answer that person yourself.

The link between the app and your number was removed, from WhatsApp's Linked devices or by WhatsApp itself. Scan the new code. Your lists, reports and settings are untouched.

A campaign was stopped part way and started again, and a new run goes to the whole list. Use Follow up on the report instead — it only goes to people who did not reply.

Open Config ▸ Status and see what it reports. Then Talk to us on the Home screen, or Report a problem in Settings.

Your own named list of people. You send to a list, not to individuals.

A real group chat in WhatsApp. Not the same thing as an audience group.

One message going to one audience group. Each time you start it, that is a run, and each run gets its own report.

An extra fact saved against a person — a birthday, a renewal date, a plan name. Details follow the person into every list.

A word you attach to a person yourself, such as vip. Yours, and only in this app.

A label from WhatsApp Business, copied into the app so you can build a list from it. Not a tag.

A new audience group built from a tag, a label or a detail.

A marker in your message that becomes each person's own value — their name, their number, their renewal date. Insert one by tapping a Personalize chip.

A second, third or fourth way of writing the same message. Recipients get one of them.

A later message to the people one run reached who did not write back.

A reply containing your stop word. That person is dropped from every future campaign, in every list.

An automatic reply, built from blocks. It answers while the app is open.

The slow start a newly linked number gets, so it does not look like a machine on day one.

A message you saved to reuse, in a campaign or in the Inbox.