WhatsApp AI bot
What does a WhatsApp AI chatbot actually do?
A WhatsApp AI chatbot reads what the customer asks for and acts on it: Eva quotes from your catalog, holds a slot in your calendar, sends a bank-transfer payment link, records the contact and the opportunity in its CRM, and hands the conversation to a person when needed.
Most people arrive here after typing the same thing: whatsapp ai chatbot, ideally a free one. It is a fair search and it deserves a straight answer before any sales argument. Free options exist, they have a ceiling, and that ceiling shows up the night a buyer asks for a price with conditions attached.
What almost nobody is really shopping for is a menu of options. They want the buyer to get a useful answer at the hour they wrote, so the sale does not die waiting. That is what Eva does: an AI agent that holds the conversation on your WhatsApp Business number, checks your company's real data and takes actions, with a built-in CRM that keeps the record. Here is what it does step by step, what it needs connected, and where its limits are.
Concrete workflows
What Eva can do
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What happens inside a real conversation
Buyers write the way they talk: a voice note, a photo of the product, a PDF, half a sentence. Eva reads it, asks for whatever is missing to answer properly, and carries the conversation with the process and the tone you defined, even when nobody had anticipated that exact question.
No price and no date comes out of its imagination: it consults the catalog, the knowledge base and the calendar, and confirms against the verified product record. And since that detail only returns the fields you marked visible, your internal cost and your warehouse notes stay inside.
Then it acts: it sends the quote with your conditions, holds the slot against real Google Calendar availability, creates the bank-transfer payment link, leaves the contact and the opportunity created in the CRM, and asks for a person the moment one of your escalation rules is met.
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What free actually gets you
The WhatsApp Business app ships three free messaging tools: the greeting message, the away message and quick replies, which are text shortcuts a person inserts while typing. Set up well they buy time and save keystrokes. None of the three reads the customer's question, so the sale still waits for somebody to answer it.
On the other side are the free trials platforms offer. They are useful for seeing the mechanics, and the fine print is worth reading before you build on top: entry plans usually carry the provider's branding in the chat window and charge separately to remove it, and some free plans delete the agent after a few days without activity.
Eva is not free, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Plans measure capacity and implementation is bought separately; current amounts live on the pricing page.
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Where the record lives, and how your team steps in
An agent that answers well and leaves no trace does not help you sell. Every conversation leaves a contact and an opportunity with its stage and its owner, tied back to the conversation that created them, without depending on somebody typing it in afterwards.
Your team works in the same inbox, with WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, calls, email and your website chat together. Anyone can take over a conversation with one click, and after the first human reply Eva stays silent until control is handed back. Everything stays visible: the conversation, the action, the follow-up and the moment a person stepped in.
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What it needs connected
The channel: your WhatsApp Business number connected, plus any others you want. It is the same agent everywhere, with the same configuration and the same customer history.
The data: a catalog loaded by file or through an API, with the fields you want buyers to see marked visible; a knowledge base carrying what people actually ask; calendars with their resources and time zone if it will be booking; and a connected payments account if it will be charging.
The rules, written down: which details to collect before quoting, which conditions travel with a price, what must never be resolved without a person, and who gets notified. You do not start at a blank screen: the copilot reads your site and your catalog and proposes the first version, you correct it and test it as a draft, a human reviews it before go-live, and implementation is delivered in five business days or less from the moment we receive complete inputs.
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- Eva is not free. Plans measure capacity, conversations and users, and implementation is bought separately; current amounts are on the pricing page.
- Eva answers from what is in your data. Catalog search returns up to twenty-five candidates, the detail lookup only returns fields marked visible, and API-connected sources sync every twenty-four hours. What is not loaded, Eva does not invent: it asks, or hands the conversation to a person.
- Outside the WhatsApp conversation window an approved template is required, and Meta charges for each delivered template on top of what you pay the platform. Without a template the message is parked, skipped or waits for a person, depending on the case.
- From a photo, Eva returns candidates with a confidence level rather than a verdict. Price, currency, variants and availability are always confirmed against the verified product record.
- Eva Pay creates SPEI bank-transfer links in Mexican pesos rather than card charges, and needs the payments account connected. Mexican CFDI invoices are issued for eligible charges and require a complete tax profile.
Questions
FAQ
Is there a good free WhatsApp chatbot?
The most honest free option is the one you already have: the messaging tools inside the WhatsApp Business app, which acknowledge people without serving them. Above that, free means trials and entry plans with a ceiling, usually the provider's branding in the chat window, a message cap and agents deleted after inactivity. If your questions always have the same answer, that is enough. The moment answering requires searching a catalog, quoting with conditions, checking a calendar or taking payment, you need an agent wired to your data, and that is paid software.
How do I set up a chatbot on WhatsApp?
The greeting and away messages take minutes inside the WhatsApp Business app's messaging tools. Putting a working agent on the number is a different path: you connect your WhatsApp Business number, load the catalog and knowledge base, write the pricing and escalation rules, and connect the calendar and payments. The copilot proposes the configuration from your site and your catalog, you correct it and test it as a draft, a human reviews it before launch, and implementation is delivered in five business days or less once complete inputs arrive.
What is a WhatsApp chatbot?
It is any system that answers on its own from a WhatsApp number, and the word covers two very different things. At one end sit scripted menus with canned replies; at the other, AI agents that understand natural language, check real data and complete whole actions. Before buying, ask two concrete questions: how well does it handle what nobody anticipated, and which actions does it genuinely execute.
How much does a WhatsApp AI chatbot cost?
The price has more than one line, which is why comparing monthly fees is misleading: the platform subscription, the AI layer when it is billed separately, the template messages Meta charges for on its own, and implementation. With Eva, plans measure capacity and implementation is bought separately; current amounts are on the pricing page, and the cost guide breaks the four lines down with verified public figures from other platforms.
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