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Set a default session for team alerts on WhatsApp

The default session is the number Corteksa uses to send WhatsApp alerts to your team: a record assigned to them, a mention in a comment, or old chats finished loading.

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The Update permission on the channel’s row
  • You need: The Update permission on the channel’s row

Steps

1
In WhatsApp Sessions, open the session’s actions menu and press Make as Default.
Default session updated successfully shows, and a Default badge appears in its column.
2
To undo it, press Remove Default.

What does the default session send?

Alert
Who gets it
A record was assigned to you
The employee it was assigned to, on the mobile number in their profile
A teammate mentioned you in a comment
The employee who was mentioned, unless they mentioned themselves
Loading old chats finished or failed
The employee who asked for the load

An alert is sent only if the default session is Working and the employee has a mobile number in their profile. If the session disconnects, alerts stop silently until it’s back.

Alert messages show as regular chats on the default session, and they’re sent at a human pace, with the typing indicator.

A workspace has only one default session. Setting a new one cancels the old one, and the change is recorded in the activity log of both sessions.

If something goes wrong

What you see
Why
What to do
Assignment alerts don’t arrive on WhatsApp
There’s no connected default session, or the employee’s profile has no number.
Set a default session that’s Working, and add the number to the profile.

A real example

Basma Clinics
The situation

The receptionists don’t keep the app open all the time, so they’re slow to see the appointments assigned to them.

What they did
  1. The management made its internal number the default session.
  2. Each receptionist added her mobile number to her profile.
The result

Every booking assigned to a receptionist now reaches her straight away as a WhatsApp message with the record link.

A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.

Good to know

One default session per workspace.
Alerts aren’t sent unless the session is Working.
An employee with no mobile number in their profile gets no WhatsApp alerts.
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