WhatsApp Business was officially announced in September 2017, but back then you definately had to enroll in the beta, register your interest and hope that you just could be chosen to try the app. Now the app is officially live and shall be available on Android in 5 countries, with a “worldwide” rollout in the approaching weeks. The lucky five are: Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Great Britain and the USA. Yes, within the US where everyone says they do not use WhatsApp. What’s also strange is that the launch post mentioned that firms in India and Brazil heavily use WhatsApp for his or her communications, but these two countries aren’t on the list of which shall be the primary to make use of WhatsApp. Perhaps WhatsApp desires to be certain that every part goes easily before rolling it out to its widest potential market.
If you do not know what WhatsApp Business is, because the name suggests, it’s a dedicated app (and repair) for businesses. As we discovered during our hands-on work with the app, it offers several unique features: compatibility with landline numbers (including mobiles) versus rigid requirements for mobile numbers, a special badge and profile where businesses can list their opening hours, website, category , location and outline, in addition to statistics about their interactions and a few automated messages to greet customers or send quick replies or remember replies, letting them know that they’ll come back to answer later. WhatsApp Business also recently received an update so as to add labels, so businesses can categorize specific messages for later.
If you would like to try WhatsApp Business and also you live in one in every of the five countries mentioned above, you may download the app from the Play Store using the widget below or from APK Mirror. The app can co-exist with the regular WhatsApp app, so you may keep the latter for private communications via your mobile number and the previous for business messages via your landline number.
