Shared team inbox
Shared team inbox for WhatsApp
Every WhatsApp chat from every number your business uses, in one inbox your whole team can work from. Assign chats, leave notes for each other and step in for the bot with one click.
Ananya Rao
10:42Can I change the delivery address for order 1042?
2open@PriyaCODRohit Malhotra
10:31Is the blue kurta back in size L?
openAI replyingFatima Shaikh
10:12Sharing the payment screenshot now
1waiting@AccountsKarthik Iyer
09:58Booked for Saturday 11 am, thank you
resolved@ArjunVIPMeera Joshi
YesterdayDo you ship to Guwahati?
open@Sales
The problem
One phone cannot serve a growing business
Most Indian businesses start on WhatsApp with one phone. The owner answers, or a trusted staff member keeps the phone on their desk. It works until the chats pile up. Then the same problems show up in every shop, clinic and office.
Only one person can reply at a time. When that person is busy, on leave or asleep, customers wait. Nobody else can see what was promised in a chat, so a second person who picks it up starts from zero and asks the customer to repeat themselves. Chats that need the accounts team or the dispatch team get forwarded as screenshots. Some are never answered at all.
Many teams try to fix this by sharing the phone or using WhatsApp Web on several computers. That makes it worse. Two people reply to the same customer with different answers, and you cannot tell who said what. When a staff member leaves, their chat history and their customers leave with them.
How it works
One inbox, clear ownership, nothing lost
A shared team inbox gives every person on your team their own login to the same set of chats. Customers keep messaging the number they already know. Behind it, your team works the way a proper support desk does.
Every number in one place
Connect one WhatsApp number or several. A sales line, a support line and a number for each branch can all sit in the same workspace. Every chat lands in one list, with unread counts so nothing slips past.
Assign, then track to done
Assign a chat to a person or to a team such as Sales or Accounts. Round-robin routing can share new chats evenly across the people on a team, so nobody gets buried. Each chat has a status: open, waiting or resolved. At a glance you can see what still needs a reply and who owns it.
Talk to each other inside the chat
Internal notes sit inside the conversation and the customer never sees them. Mention a colleague with @ to pull them in, for example to ask dispatch whether an order has shipped. Quick replies save typing for answers you send every day, and you can reply with approved templates, photos, documents, buttons and lists.
Hours, targets and handoff
Set your business hours and an away message for the rest of the day. Set a response-time target so the team knows how fast a first reply should go out, and let chats that have gone quiet resolve on their own. When a bot or the AI agent is answering, anyone can pause it and take over the chat in one click.
Roles keep access sensible. Owners and admins manage settings and numbers, agents work the chats, and viewers can read without replying.
Ananya Rao
+91 98•• ••• 210 · assigned to Priya
Today
Bot paused · Priya took over
Note: @Arjun please check if 1042 has shipped
Who it is for
For any team that shares customer chats
The inbox suits any business where more than one person talks to customers on WhatsApp. A D2C brand with a small support team uses it to answer order questions and returns. A clinic uses it so the front desk and the billing desk can both handle patient messages without passing a phone around. A coaching institute splits admissions enquiries from fee questions. A real estate firm assigns each new lead to a sales person and can still see every conversation if that person moves on.
It also works for a single owner who wants to stay on top of chats from a laptop and add a helper later. Start with one seat on the Free plan and add people when you need them.
Because the inbox runs on the official WhatsApp Business Platform, the 24-hour customer service window applies. Inside it you can reply freely. Once it closes, you start the conversation again with an approved template.
What you get
Everything in the team inbox
Each item below is in the product today.
- All WhatsApp chats in one inbox, with several numbers per workspace
- Assign chats to people or teams, with round-robin routing and statuses (open, waiting, resolved)
- Internal notes with @mentions, quick replies, and templates, media, buttons and lists in replies
- Business hours, away messages, response-time targets and auto-resolve
- Human handoff: pause the bot and take over in one click
- Roles and permissions: owner, admin, agent and viewer
Instagram DMs. Instagram direct messages in the same shared inbox as your WhatsApp chats. It is not live yet.
Read next: WhatsApp Business API in India: a complete guide. See which plans include each feature.
Questions
Something else on your mind? Write to uday@bodhinox.com.
Can several people reply from the same WhatsApp number?
Yes. Everyone on your team signs in to Bodhinox Connect with their own login and replies from the shared inbox. Customers see one business number. You see who sent each reply, and each chat is assigned to one person or team so two people do not answer the same customer.
Can I connect more than one WhatsApp number?
Yes. A workspace can hold several WhatsApp numbers, for example one for sales and one for support, or one per branch. All their chats arrive in the same inbox.
What happens to messages that arrive after business hours?
You set your business hours once. Outside them, the inbox sends your away message so the customer knows when to expect a reply, and the chat waits in the queue for the morning. If an AI agent or bot is set up, it can answer common questions in the meantime.
Does the inbox support Instagram messages?
Not yet. Instagram direct messages in the same inbox are coming soon. Today the inbox handles WhatsApp chats from every number you connect.
Works well with
- AI agentAn AI agent that answers customers at any hour from your own knowledge base, and hands sensitive chats to a person.
- Flows and automationBuild chat flows visually and run automations on events, keywords and schedules. Test before you publish and see every run.
- CRM, analytics and platformEvery contact with a full timeline, deal pipelines, and reports on chats, team speed, campaigns and revenue.
Start free today. No card needed.
Connect your WhatsApp number, bring in your contacts and try it with your own customers. If you want a walk-through first, book a demo and we will set it up with you.