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WhatsApp catalogue · Commerce

Your catalogue, in the chat,
managed from the same screen as the inbox.

A customer asking “price?” should get a product card, not a photo and a number typed from memory. TicAte keeps your WhatsApp catalogue in sync with Meta, sends products into the conversation, and turns the cart the customer builds into a real order on the contact record.

What is a WhatsApp catalogue?

A WhatsApp catalogue is the product list attached to your WhatsApp Business Account, which customers can browse inside the chat and add to a cart without leaving WhatsApp. In TicAte the catalogue is managed from the app rather than from Meta Commerce Manager: you add products with prices, images and descriptions, push them to Meta, and send a single product or a multi-product message straight into a conversation. Carts arrive in the inbox as a structured order — items, quantities and subtotal — attached to the contact and, if you want, to a deal on the pipeline.

Put your catalogue on WhatsApp

From product to paid

The whole loop, inside one conversation

Browsing, choosing, ordering and the updates afterwards — none of it needs a website, an app download or a payment link the customer distrusts.

Catalogue managed from the app

Create the catalogue, add products with price, currency, image and description, and push them to Meta. Each product shows its sync state, and a failed push tells you what Meta objected to — and retries.

Product messages that sell

Send a single product card, or a multi-product message with a curated set. The customer taps through, builds a cart and sends it back — inside WhatsApp, in the thread they were already in.

Carts arrive as orders, not text

A cart lands as a structured order: item names, quantities, unit prices and a subtotal, stored against the contact. Nobody retypes a wall of message into a spreadsheet.

Order updates as utility templates

Confirmed, packed, shipped, delivered — sent as approved utility templates, so the customer gets the update even after the 24-hour window has closed.

Abandoned carts followed up

A cart that never became an order is a trigger like any other. The automation engine can chase it once, politely, a day later — and stop if the customer replies.

Attached to the customer, not lost

Every order sits on the contact record with the conversation that produced it, and can create or update a deal on the pipeline so the value shows up in your forecast.

Getting it live

Four steps from a price list to a product card

1

Connect commerce to your WABA

Your WhatsApp Business Account needs catalogue permission, which is granted during Embedded Signup. If your number was connected before, it is one reconnection.

2

Create the catalogue

Create it from TicAte, or point at the catalogue your business already owns. One catalogue serves the number; products live under it.

3

Add products and push them to Meta

Name, description, price in your currency, image and a retailer ID. Push to Meta and watch each product turn from pending to live — or tell you exactly why it did not.

4

Send, and take the cart

Send a product or a multi-product message from the inbox or from an automation. The cart comes back as an order, ready for the utility template that confirms it.

Catalogue sync
CatalogueLinked to your WhatsApp Business Account
Live
Products148 items with price and image
Synced
Multi-product msgUp to 30 items per message
Ready
Cart received3 items · subtotal ₹4,870
Order
Order updateUtility template, outside the window
Approved
Good to know

WhatsApp catalogue questions

Do I have to use Meta Commerce Manager?
No — that is the point. Catalogues and products are created and pushed to Meta from inside TicAte, and each product shows whether Meta has accepted it. Commerce Manager stays available if you want it, but a normal week never needs it.
Can customers pay inside WhatsApp?
The cart and the order happen inside WhatsApp. Collection is yours to choose — your existing payment link, UPI, an invoice from TicAte CRM, or cash on delivery — and the order stays attached to the contact whichever you use.
Does my catalogue sync with my website or ERP?
Prices and stock can be pushed in from your own system through the API and outbound webhooks, so the catalogue follows the source of truth you already have. A one-off CSV-style load and manual edits work too.
How many products can a message show?
A single product message shows one. A multi-product message carries a curated set of items from the catalogue — enough for a section of your range, not the whole catalogue, which is what the browse view is for.
What does it need from Meta?
Your WhatsApp Business Account needs catalogue permission granted at connection time. If your number was connected before catalogue support was added, reconnecting through Embedded Signup with the extra permission is a two-minute job.
Does an order create anything in the CRM?
It can. The order is stored against the contact, and an automation can create or update a deal on the pipeline — so what started as a chat shows up in the forecast with a value on it.
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