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WhatsApp notifications

Reach people on the app they already have open

An email nobody reads is not a notification. Pair your own WhatsApp number and send task creation, handover and completion alerts — plus scheduled daily, weekly and monthly reports — to the assignee, a group, or both.

Free for the whole 30-day trial. An optional add-on after that.

The problem

The notification that never gets seen

For a great many teams — field staff, shop floors, salons, workshops, drivers — email is not a channel. A notification sent there is a notification that will be read the day after it mattered, if at all.

  • Staff share a device, do not have a work email, or have one they check weekly.
  • In-app notifications only reach the people who already have the app open.
  • So the real notification channel becomes a WhatsApp group — which is fine as an alert and hopeless as a record.
  • Managers ask for a status update because there is no automatic summary, and asking is the only mechanism.
  • The one person who sends the daily summary by hand goes on leave, and the rhythm stops.

How TaskIt handles it

The alert on WhatsApp, the record in TaskIt

The channel people actually read, carrying messages generated from the task record — so the message and the system of record cannot disagree.

  • Each workspace pairs its own WhatsApp number through a self-hosted gateway. Messages come from your number, not a shared shortcode.
  • Task creation, handover and completion events, each switchable on or off independently.
  • Delivery target per workspace: the assignee personally, a linked group, or both.
  • Customisable message templates with variables — including answers to your own task form fields — and tappable mentions.
  • Scheduled daily, weekly and monthly task reports at a chosen time in your workspace’s time zone.
What changes

What you get

Assignment actually arrives

The person who has been given a task learns about it on the app they check dozens of times a day, with the task code, title, priority and who assigned it in the message.

The daily summary sends itself

A scheduled report goes out whether or not anyone remembers, with a live preview and a test send so you know what it will look like before it reaches the group.

Nothing is lost to a restart

Every message is written to a persistent queue and delivered by a background worker with retries, backoff, de-duplication and crash recovery — so a server restart mid-broadcast loses nothing.

You can check what was sent

Delivery history records status, sent time, retry count and error detail. "Did they get it?" is answerable without asking them.

Step by step

How it works

In the order a person using it meets them.

  1. 1

    Pair your number

    From the workspace’s WhatsApp settings, pair the device once. The same gateway also carries password-reset codes and verified email changes.

  2. 2

    Choose the events and the target

    Turn task creation, handover and completion notifications on or off independently, and pick whether each goes to the assignee, a linked group, or both.

  3. 3

    Write the templates

    Edit the message wording with placeholders for task fields, people and your own custom form answers. Preview it live and send a test before it goes anywhere near the team.

  4. 4

    Schedule the reports

    Pick daily, a weekday for weekly, or a day of the month for monthly, and a delivery time in your time zone. The statistics window follows the cadence.

Worked example

A field team’s day, from the WhatsApp side

Six messages. Nobody opened a laptop.

  1. 1

    08:00 — daily report to the group

    What is assigned today, what is still in progress, what is overdue, and yesterday’s completions.

  2. 2

    09:12 — new task, personal

    Task code, title, priority and who raised it, straight to the technician who has to do it.

  3. 3

    11:40 — department task, group

    An unowned job posted to the operations group. The first person free accepts it in the app.

  4. 4

    14:05 — handover, both

    The assignee hands over before leaving site. The message names both people, what was completed and what is pending.

  5. 5

    17:30 — completion, group

    The team sees the job closed without anyone asking.

  6. 6

    20:00 — check

    The manager glances at delivery history: six sent, none retried.

The result

Nobody was chased, and the record of all six events is on the tasks rather than in the thread.

Personal, Group or Both

Personal messages are the reliable one-to-one channel for the person who has to act. A group gives the team shared visibility, which is what makes unclaimed department work get picked up. Both is common — the assignee gets the instruction, the group gets the awareness.

Scheduled reports, in detail

The statistics window follows the cadence: today for daily, the current week to date for weekly, the previous full calendar month for monthly.

  • Daily reports default to a today’s-progress format: assigned today, in progress, completed, pending, plus blocked when any exist
  • Per-employee progress, the tasks being worked right now and what got completed, all computed from stored records for the current local day
  • A performance placeholder that embeds the full accept/start/completion/turnaround analysis with rankings
  • Reports longer than a practical WhatsApp message are split at section boundaries into ordered, numbered parts
  • Delivery history with status, retry count and error detail; failed sends retry automatically

Notification groups

Link WhatsApp groups to the workspace and keep membership in step, so the right group receives the right category of message rather than everything going to one channel everyone eventually mutes.

What WhatsApp does not do here

It is an outbound channel. Accepting a task, updating progress, handing over and reviewing all happen in the application — there is no reply-to-update. That is deliberate: a message thread cannot be an audit trail, and a task whose state lives in a chat has no state at all.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Your own. Each workspace pairs its own device through a self-hosted gateway, so messages arrive from a number your team and your customers already recognise.

No. WhatsApp here is an outbound notification channel. Accepting, updating progress, handing over and reviewing all happen in the application, which is what keeps the task record and the audit trail authoritative.

It is free for the whole 30-day trial. After that it is an optional add-on at ₹499 per month. If you do not subscribe, the WhatsApp notifications, reports, templates and pairing are simply not shown — and adding it later switches everything back on with nothing to set up again.

It is retried automatically — up to five attempts with backoff — because every message goes through a persistent queue rather than a direct call. The delivery history shows the status, the retry count and the error detail.

Send yourself the first notification

Pair a number, write one template and send a test — the WhatsApp module is unlocked for the whole trial.