Connecting WhatsApp lead ads with Zoho CRM
For any business, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is the backbone of lead and customer management. It plays a crucial role in organizing customer interactions and data to deliver a clear, consistent, and personalized customer experience. It allows you to track deals, manage your sales pipeline, and improve team efficiency, ensuring that no opportunity is missed.
One of the core functions of a CRM is lead management. Every lead is a potential sale, and in today’s digital-first world, a large share of leads are generated through social media platforms. However, capturing these leads manually can result in errors, duplication, or delays, often leading to missed sales opportunities.
To avoid this, businesses need their CRM to be automatically updated with leads in real-time. While Facebook and Instagram Lead Ads already offer integration options, WhatsApp Ads now make it possible to engage in direct conversations and collect high-intent leads through messaging. This is where Zoho LeadChain comes in.
How LeadChain Bridges WhatsApp and Zoho CRM
LeadChain acts as a connector between WhatsApp and Zoho CRM, ensuring that leads generated via WhatsApp Ads are captured, validated, and updated in CRM without manual intervention.
Here’s how it works:
- When a lead clicks the Call-to-Action (CTA) in your WhatsApp ad (run via Meta platforms like Facebook or Instagram), they are redirected to a WhatsApp conversation.
- There, they are greeted with a pre-set welcome message, FAQs, or chatbot prompts.
- Once the conversation starts, LeadChain captures the lead details from WhatsApp and passes them into Zoho CRM.
- The CRM then identifies and logs the lead into your pipeline. From here, your sales team can follow up, qualify, and convert the lead as needed.
- Once the lead is marked as converted or closed, Zoho CRM sends feedback to Meta. This helps in preventing ad repetition for the same user.
Additionally, LeadChain verifies incoming leads, checks for duplicates, and ensures only unique data enters your CRM and updates you once in every three hours.
Connecting Whatsapp Lead Ads with Zoho CRM involves just two steps
- Connecting the apps
- Mapping the fields
Connecting the apps
This is the stage where you map the source (Whatsapp Lead Ads) and the destination (Zoho CRM).
In the source section, you can connect the appropriate WhatsApp business account with LeadChain and select the account, from which you want to synchronize the leads to Zoho CRM.
The destination section lets you choose the module where you want to synchronize the generated leads: leads or contacts. You can also configure the following:
Segmentation
- CRM Tags: You can select an appropriate tag for all the leads which makes it easy for you to categorize your leads and filter them from a large volume of leads data. For example, you can add a tag in CRM Leads to easily group all the generated leads. You can also create a custom view using this tag.
- CRM Campaigns: Campaigns lets you associate the leads generated to an existing marketing campaign. Say you have created a lead generation email campaign in your CRM, and you want all the leads generated from WhatsApp Lead Ads to be part of the campaign. You can select the appropriate CRM Campaign from the list, and all the leads will be automatically associated.
CRM Layout
Page Layout in CRM is the form with a specific set of fields to capture the lead's information. It normally consists of various fields and sections, such as First Name, Last Name, Company, Email, Phone, Address Information, and so on. Businesses use multiple page layouts to capture the right set of information that they need for various processes. Choosing the appropriate page layout that you have created will help you capture all the required information about the lead and not miss out on any important information.
Assignment Rule
Assignment rules in Zoho CRM let you automate the process of assigning leads to your team based on various criteria. This helps reduce the time taken to assign the leads to your sales reps manually and optimize the resource utilization of your team. For example, you can create assignment rules to automatically assign the leads generated from Whatsapp Lead Ads to a specific team in your organization.
Mapping the fields
This stage allows you to map the fields from your WhatsApp Lead Ads to the corresponding fields in Zoho CRM. It defines what information will be captured in your CRM for each lead or contact. You can either link the fields from WhatsApp Lead Ads to the appropriate CRM fields or assign a default value where needed. WhatsApp typically captures key fields such as Name, Phone Number, and CTWA Click ID. Make sure to map whichever fields are available in your WhatsApp account to the matching fields in Zoho CRM to ensure that all lead data is accurately captured and stored.
To create a chain between WhatsApp Lead Ads and Zoho CRM
- Go to LeadChain module and click + Create new chain.
- Enter a suitable name for the Chain.
- Select Source and Destination as WhatsApp Lead Ads and Zoho CRM, respectively.
- In the Source section, do the following:
- Select a WhatsApp business account from the drop down list. If you haven't connected already, click + Add New WhastApp business Account to add a WhatsApp Account to LeadChain.
- Select the Connected phone number from the drop down list.
Learn how to create a WhatsApp business account - In the Destination section, do the following:
- Select a Module from the drop down list.
- Select an appropriate CRM Tag, and Campaign from the drop down list to segment the generated leads automatically.
- Select a Page Layout, and Assignment Rule from the drop down list.
- Click Proceed to field mapping.
- Map the fields in Zoho CRM with the fields from Whastapp Lead Ads. Alternatively, you can also enter a default field value.
- Click Save and Publish. Alternatively, you can click the drop-down and select Save as Draft.
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