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Discover Salesforce’s New Service Cloud Integration With the WhatsApp Business Platform

By Andreea Doroftei

Updated March 05, 2025

The new integration between Service Cloud and the WhatsApp Business Platform launched recently – enabling Salesforce customers to deliver efficient, personalized service at global scale.

Let’s take an exclusive look at the new features available on the new Enhanced Messaging for WhatsApp channel.

Agent & Supervisor Experience

Boost agent efficiency while giving supervisors a bird’s-eye view of their contact center by unifying all channels onto one unified workspace. 

  • Advanced Routing with Omni-Channel Flows: Deliver more efficient support by intelligently routing the right work to the right agent based on skill set, availability, or capacity.
  • Agent Transfer: Now agents can transfer enhanced WhatsApp conversations to another agent, queue, skill, or bot. When a customer has an issue that needs to be escalated to another agent, you can effortlessly transfer a messaging session along with all of the context and conversation history they need to start resolving the issue right away.
  • Supervisor Monitoring, Whisper, and Flag Raise: Support and coach agents in real time. When an agent raises a flag to alert you that they need help, supervisors can hold a private two-way conversation with them from Omni Supervisor. 
Agent Transfer Experience in Enhanced Channels

Self-Service Setup

Get started fast with the new embedded signup that allows you to onboard your WhatsApp channel in minutes and simplifies the process in a single flow. 

New streamlined WhatsApp setup with Lightning Setup Console

Conversational Intelligence & Automation

  • Enhanced Bots: Increase deflection for low-touch cases with AI-powered chatbots that enable agents to focus on higher value and more complex issues. When a human touch is needed, enhanced bots can also collect customer information upfront for a seamless handoff – giving agents the context they need for faster, more efficient resolutions. 
  • AI Agent Assist: Integrate data from across channels and systems to create a 360-view of every customer. Then leverage that real-time data to dynamically surface intelligent, personalized recommendations with Einstein Next Best Action.

Rich, Conversational Experiences

Go beyond text with rich, interactive features that drive customer engagement – from images and PDFs, to audio & video files and emojis. 

With the new messaging component builder, admins can also build structured content once and deploy them across all messaging channels – from Messaging for In-App & Web to enhanced Facebook Messenger. 

With the new messaging component builder, admins can also build structured content once and deploy them across all messaging channels – from Messaging for In-App & Web to enhanced Facebook Messenger.

Support for the messaging component builder on the enhanced WhatsApp channel will be available in future releases.

Availability: Enhanced WhatsApp for Service Cloud is available now as part of the Digital Engagement add-on to Service Cloud and Salesforce Contact Center.

The Author

Andreea Doroftei

Andreea is a Salesforce Technical Instructor at Salesforce Ben. She is an 18x certified Salesforce Professional with a passion for User Experience and Automation. 

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Comments:

    suplo ableh
    May 11, 2023 7:16 am
    yeah right, they say this is enhanced feature but it can not send outbound message (plan on the next release October 2023)