WhatsApp scheduler
Schedule one-off messages, broadcasts and recurring campaigns on the WhatsApp Business API — timezone-aware, Meta-compliant, included in every plan.
- One-off + recurring sends
- Timezone-aware delivery
- Send-time optimisation
Key things to know
One-off scheduling
Pick any future date, time and timezone for a single broadcast — down to the minute.
Recurring campaigns
Daily, weekly or monthly schedules for newsletters, reminders and loyalty messages.
Per-recipient timezone
Send at 10am local time for every contact, regardless of where they live.
Send-time optimisation
AI picks each contact's best opening window based on past engagement.
People also ask
Q.Can I schedule WhatsApp messages?
Yes. On the WhatsApp Business API you can schedule individual messages, broadcasts and recurring campaigns. LandinChat lets you pick date, time and timezone, then queues the send through Meta at the exact slot.
Q.Is the WhatsApp scheduler free?
Scheduling is included in every LandinChat plan at no extra fee. You only pay Meta's per-message conversation rate at cost.
Q.Can I schedule recurring WhatsApp broadcasts?
Yes. Set daily, weekly or monthly recurring schedules for newsletters, reminders or loyalty messages with audience filters that re-evaluate at each run.
Q.Does the scheduler respect timezones?
Yes. Pick the campaign timezone or send by recipient timezone so customers in different regions receive the message at the same local hour.
Q.Can I schedule WhatsApp messages without saving numbers?
Yes. Upload a CSV, paste numbers or sync from a CRM. Numbers do not need to be saved in your phone for API sends.
Q.What's the best time to schedule WhatsApp campaigns?
For most B2C audiences, 10am–12pm and 6pm–8pm local time give the highest open and click rates. LandinChat's send-time optimisation picks the best slot per contact.
Schedule WhatsApp like email — without breaking Meta's rules
A WhatsApp scheduler queues messages on the WhatsApp Business API to send at a future date and time you choose. Use it for product launches, time-sensitive offers, newsletters, reminders and recurring loyalty pings.
Because Meta restricts unsolicited messaging, every scheduled send must use an approved template (Marketing, Utility or Authentication) and target opted-in contacts. LandinChat enforces both automatically.
Beyond one-off schedules, LandinChat supports daily/weekly/monthly recurrences, per-recipient timezone delivery and AI send-time optimisation that picks the slot each contact is most likely to open.
Built for serious growth teams
One-off scheduling
Pick any future date, time and timezone for a single broadcast — down to the minute.
Recurring campaigns
Daily, weekly or monthly schedules for newsletters, reminders and loyalty messages.
Per-recipient timezone
Send at 10am local time for every contact, regardless of where they live.
Send-time optimisation
AI picks each contact's best opening window based on past engagement.
Audience filters
Re-evaluate segment filters at send time so new opt-ins are included automatically.
Pause & cancel
Stop, edit or reschedule any campaign before it sends. Full audit trail.
Get live in days, not months
- 1
Pick an approved template
Choose a Meta-approved Marketing or Utility template from your library.
- 2
Select audience
Upload a CSV, paste numbers or filter by CRM tags, lifecycle stage or last activity.
- 3
Set date, time, timezone
Pick a one-off slot or a recurring cadence with optional timezone-per-recipient.
- 4
Preview & schedule
Review the rendered message and cost estimate, then confirm the schedule.
- 5
Track delivery
Live dashboard shows queued, sent, delivered, read and clicked in real time.
Frequently asked questions
Why WhatsApp scheduler is the highest-leverage move for growth teams
WhatsApp is where growth teams customers actually reply. Open rates sit at 85–98% inside 15 minutes versus 18–22% on email and sub-2% on SMS, and the medium is conversational — a customer can ask a follow-up, share a photo, or pay without leaving the thread. That is the entire premise behind whatsapp scheduler: stop losing the conversation to slow channels and let intent convert while it is warm.
Most growth teams teams treat WhatsApp as a broadcast megaphone. The teams that win treat it as a workflow surface — every notification is also a decision point where the customer can act. The capabilities below are wired to do exactly that: each one collapses a multi-step off-platform detour into a single in-thread reply.
The impact numbers on this page — ∞ scheduled messages per plan, 150+ timezones supported, 1 min schedule precision, 0% markup on meta rate — are pulled from LandinChat customers running this workflow for at least 90 days. They are directional; your mileage depends on list quality, template approval speed, and how aggressively you route qualified conversations to a live agent.
Each capability, in plain terms
One-off scheduling
Pick any future date, time and timezone for a single broadcast — down to the minute. In practice this means the growth teams operator running whatsapp scheduler does not need to compose the logic themselves; they pick the trigger, review the copy, and let LandinChat handle rate-limits, template compliance, and retry behaviour.
Recurring campaigns
Daily, weekly or monthly schedules for newsletters, reminders and loyalty messages. In practice this means the growth teams operator running whatsapp scheduler does not need to compose the logic themselves; they pick the trigger, review the copy, and let LandinChat handle rate-limits, template compliance, and retry behaviour.
Per-recipient timezone
Send at 10am local time for every contact, regardless of where they live. In practice this means the growth teams operator running whatsapp scheduler does not need to compose the logic themselves; they pick the trigger, review the copy, and let LandinChat handle rate-limits, template compliance, and retry behaviour.
Send-time optimisation
AI picks each contact's best opening window based on past engagement. In practice this means the growth teams operator running whatsapp scheduler does not need to compose the logic themselves; they pick the trigger, review the copy, and let LandinChat handle rate-limits, template compliance, and retry behaviour.
Audience filters
Re-evaluate segment filters at send time so new opt-ins are included automatically. In practice this means the growth teams operator running whatsapp scheduler does not need to compose the logic themselves; they pick the trigger, review the copy, and let LandinChat handle rate-limits, template compliance, and retry behaviour.
Pause & cancel
Stop, edit or reschedule any campaign before it sends. Full audit trail. In practice this means the growth teams operator running whatsapp scheduler does not need to compose the logic themselves; they pick the trigger, review the copy, and let LandinChat handle rate-limits, template compliance, and retry behaviour.
How this actually rolls out
Step 1. Pick an approved template
Choose a Meta-approved Marketing or Utility template from your library. On day one, an onboarding specialist walks a growth teams operator through this step live; on subsequent campaigns, the team runs it themselves from the LandinChat console. Expect this step to take between 15 minutes and an afternoon depending on how clean your existing data is.
Step 2. Select audience
Upload a CSV, paste numbers or filter by CRM tags, lifecycle stage or last activity. On day one, an onboarding specialist walks a growth teams operator through this step live; on subsequent campaigns, the team runs it themselves from the LandinChat console. Expect this step to take between 15 minutes and an afternoon depending on how clean your existing data is.
Step 3. Set date, time, timezone
Pick a one-off slot or a recurring cadence with optional timezone-per-recipient. On day one, an onboarding specialist walks a growth teams operator through this step live; on subsequent campaigns, the team runs it themselves from the LandinChat console. Expect this step to take between 15 minutes and an afternoon depending on how clean your existing data is.
Step 4. Preview & schedule
Review the rendered message and cost estimate, then confirm the schedule. On day one, an onboarding specialist walks a growth teams operator through this step live; on subsequent campaigns, the team runs it themselves from the LandinChat console. Expect this step to take between 15 minutes and an afternoon depending on how clean your existing data is.
Step 5. Track delivery
Live dashboard shows queued, sent, delivered, read and clicked in real time. On day one, an onboarding specialist walks a growth teams operator through this step live; on subsequent campaigns, the team runs it themselves from the LandinChat console. Expect this step to take between 15 minutes and an afternoon depending on how clean your existing data is.
Buyer’s checklist
- • Official Meta Tech Partner — templates approve faster and account is not at ban risk.
- • Native growth teams data model — no glue-code to import contacts, orders, or bookings.
- • Green-tick support with a clear submission checklist and Meta-side follow-up.
- • Conversation-based pricing that matches WhatsApp’s own billing model, not per-message surcharges.
- • Human handoff with unread routing, so qualified replies never sit in a bot loop.
- • Audit log & role-based access — required for regulated enterprise buyers.
Common pitfalls
- • Broadcasting cold lists — quickest way to a quality-rating downgrade and eventually a template ban.
- • Skipping opt-in capture — makes every future utility template harder to approve.
- • Treating WhatsApp as a one-way channel — the platform penalises accounts with low reply-rate.
- • Running only one template variant — you leave 20–40% of lift on the table.
- • Not routing hot conversations to a human within 5 minutes — kills conversion by up to half.
What to measure after launching whatsapp scheduler
Week 1 signal
Track template approval time, first-reply latency, delivered-rate, and the first 100 customer replies. For growth teams, the fastest warning sign is not low opens; it is customers replying with confusion because the trigger, offer, or handoff promise was not specific enough.
Month 1 signal
Compare reply quality across One-off scheduling, Recurring campaigns, Per-recipient timezone, Send-time optimisation. The best-performing growth teams teams keep the highest-intent replies visible to managers, then rewrite templates around real customer language instead of internal terminology.
Scale signal
Once Pick an approved template → Select audience → Set date, time, timezone → Preview & schedule is stable, scale by segment rather than volume. Add new audiences only when opt-in source, template intent, agent ownership, and conversion tracking are all mapped.
Search-quality notes for this workflow
This page is intentionally built around whatsapp scheduler rather than a generic WhatsApp marketing overview. The content references the actual workflow, the growth teams audience, implementation steps such as Pick an approved template, Select audience, Set date, time, timezone, Preview & schedule. That specificity helps buyers, internal teams, and search engines understand why this page deserves to exist separately from broader WhatsApp CRM, broadcast, chatbot, and automation pages.
Schedule once. Send at the perfect moment.
LandinChat schedules WhatsApp broadcasts, recurring campaigns and per-timezone sends on the official WhatsApp Business API.