Send Booking Confirmations
If you’re wondering how to deliver a better experience to your customers, giving them the opportunity to receive important notifications through their preferred communication channel is one of the options.
WhatsApp is the channel of choice for 1,6 billion users from 180 countries, enabling global reach over a single channel anytime, anywhere. Make your customers happy when booking a flight or accommodation, provide instant feedback, and send them their booking confirmation with details on the app they love and trust.
To start communicating with your customers over WhatsApp, you must receive and store their opt-ins.
Process Workflow
Implementation Steps
The booking confirmation notification is already approved by WhatsApp, as shown in the table below. Bear in mind that this specific template can be reused for different passengers by editing the values in the placeholders.
For template registration, you need to provide the template name, notification content, and language info, after which Infobip sends the template to WhatsApp for approval. Once registered with the WhatsApp platform, templates for your account get a unique template namespace.
| Template name | Content | Language | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|
| booking_confirmation | Dear {{1}}, your flight booking is confirmed. Passenger Names: {{2}} Onward Flight Details: Airlines PNR: {{3}} Sector: {{4}} Departure Date: {{5}} Departure Time: {{6}} Departure Terminal: {{7}} Arrival Date: {{8}} Arrival Time: {{9}} Arrival Terminal: {{10}} | en | ✅ |
Steps over API
To send this notification to a specific passenger using the WhatsApp API, follow the steps described below.
1. Log in to dev.infobip.com and copy your BASE URL (opens in a new tab). E.g. Your personal base URL is: https://{{BASE_URL}}.api.infobip.com/
The personal BASE URL is a simple way to identify who sent out the API request. This means we can identify the request through DNS and then find the optimal route for API requests.
2. Send an approved Message Template using the following steps:
- Choose the POST method
- Replace the endpoint with https://{{BASE_URL}}.api.infobip.com/ omni/1/advanced
- Add the Authorization header, e.g. Basic: Base64 encoded username and password (more about Authorization methods (opens in a new tab) on our API developer hub)
- Copy the
scenarioKeyyou previously created
In case you have not created your scenario yet, check Creating scenario.
Request example:
{
"scenarioKey":"CC9F01A5DC7BEE2C2B829D203482A654",
"destinations":[
{
"to":{
"phoneNumber":"41793026727"
}
}
],
"whatsApp":{
"templateName":"booking_confirmation",
"templateData":[
"Dana","Dana Scully","L5W5NW","7","May 31st","10.30 PM","2","June 1st", "7.20 AM","2"
],
"language":"en"
}
}
Template name, template data, and language are mandatory in order to successfully send the notification.
Template data should contain the same number of elements as placeholders in the registered template. In case the template does not contain any placeholders, templateData field should be an empty array “[ ]”.
You can use our Flow to set a failover option for your WhatsApp notifications. In case a WhatsApp message cannot be delivered for some reason (e.g. mobile device does not have Internet connection), use the validityPeriod field to specify a period after which an SMS will be sent and to make sure the passenger receives the information in time.