WhatsApp integration
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Between client meetings, on the road, or off the laptop entirely — a WhatsApp message keeps the record going. Built for people whose office is their phone.
Text your work to Kiantu like you'd text a colleague — start, stop, and check sessions from the app half the world already runs its business on.
Text 'start invoicing clients' and the session is runningWorks on the number you already use — link once with a codeKiantu never messages you first; you text it, it answers
What it does
- Plain-text commands to the Kiantu WhatsApp number — no app to install, no slash-command syntax to learn.
- Replies arrive in the same conversation, within WhatsApp's service window your own message opens.
- Kiantu never messages you first: no marketing templates, no notification spam. You text, it answers.
Setup
- 1 Text "link" to the Kiantu WhatsApp number.
- 2 Enter the 8-character code it replies with in Kiantu → Settings → Connectors → WhatsApp.
- 3 Text "start invoicing clients" — your session is running. That's the whole integration.
Commands
start <what you're working on> start a work session stop close your current session pause · resume pause / resume status what's running, and for how long link connect this phone to your Kiantu account Data & privacy
- Kiantu reads only messages sent to its own number — it has no access to your chats.
- Every session you start from WhatsApp lands in the same reports as everything else — invoicing becomes a lookup, not archaeology.
- Webhooks are HMAC-verified; the phone→account link is an explicit code ceremony you can undo any time.
Self-hosting
Server operators enable this integration with the following environment variables (workspace users on app.kiantu.com never need these):
WHATSAPP_VERIFY_TOKENWHATSAPP_APP_SECRETWHATSAPP_ACCESS_TOKENWHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER_ID