{"id":2249,"date":"2026-03-05T01:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2249"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:04:56","password":"","slug":"how-do-i-use-the-send-whatsapp-node","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/how-do-i-use-the-send-whatsapp-node\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I use the Send WhatsApp node?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add a&nbsp;<strong>Send WhatsApp<\/strong>&nbsp;node and connect it from the previous step. In&nbsp;<strong>Configure<\/strong>, choose&nbsp;<strong>Message Type<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>Auto Response<\/strong>&nbsp;(conversation template) or&nbsp;<strong>Template<\/strong>&nbsp;(Meta template). Select the template and, if needed, the&nbsp;<strong>Auto response template for reply<\/strong>. Fill recipient (e.g.&nbsp;<code>{{sender}}<\/code>&nbsp;or a variable) and template variables (per placeholder {{1}}, {{2}}, etc. or via variable picker). If the template has media, select it. The node has&nbsp;<strong>Delivered<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Failed<\/strong>, and optionally&nbsp;<strong>Continue<\/strong>&nbsp;ports\u2014connect them to the next steps (e.g. success message, retry, or error handling).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add a&nbsp;Send WhatsApp&nbsp;node and connect it from the previous step. In&nbsp;Configure, choose&nbsp;Message Type:&nbsp;Auto Response&nbsp;(conversation template) or&nbsp;Template&nbsp;(Meta template). Select the template and, if needed, the&nbsp;Auto response template for reply. Fill recipient (e.g.&nbsp;{{sender}}&nbsp;or a variable) and template variables (per placeholder {{1}}, {{2}}, etc. or via variable picker). If the template has media, select it. The node has&nbsp;Delivered,&nbsp;Failed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1964],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2249","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-workflow-builder"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":100,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Workflow Builder","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/workflow-builder\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}