Inventory: slot 02

One WhatsApp number for the whole desk

Patients message your clinic's WhatsApp Business number. Your whole front desk sees every thread live, with the assistant's replies labelled and a Take over button on every conversation.

Every planOwnerFront desk
ML
Maria Lopez
+1 512 555 0142
Assistant onTake overClose
Hi, are you open tomorrow? How much is a cleaning & exam?
23:48
After 5 would be best
23:48
Assistant · 23:49
Hi Maria! A cleaning & exam is $120 and takes 45 minutes. Tomorrow after 5 I have 5:15 PM or 6:00 PM with Dr. Rivera. Which suits you?
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5:15 PM please
23:51
Assistant · 23:52
Booked: Cleaning & exam, Tue, Nov 12 at 5:15 PM with Dr. Rivera. We’ll send a reminder the day before.
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Appointment confirmation sent with an approved template · 23:52
Take over to reply. The assistant is on this thread.
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Before and after

The personal phone, retired

Before

  • One receptionist's own phone holds every patient chat
  • Messages after closing wait until morning
  • Nobody knows who replied to whom
  • When they leave, the history leaves with them

With Mediora

  • Your clinic's own WhatsApp Business number, shared by the desk
  • Live threads on every screen, no refresh
  • Every reply labelled: a colleague's name, or 'Assistant'
  • One thread per patient, kept for good
Built for a busy desk

Everything a front desk asks for

Live, for everyone

New messages appear on every screen at once. No refresh, no 'did you see this?'.

Useful filters

Open or closed, unread, assistant paused, assigned to someone. Search by name or by a number typed any way.

Assign and own

Take a thread, give it to a colleague, or put it back in the pool.

Close and reopen

Close a finished conversation. If the patient writes again, it reopens by itself.

Honest ticks

Sent, delivered, read or failed. A reply only shows as sent once Meta has accepted it.

Privacy blur

One switch blurs names and messages on a screen that faces the waiting room.

Try it

Take over. Hand back.

When a conversation needs a human, one button mutes the assistant on that thread and makes it yours.

Who is talking to the patient?

Maria Lopez

“Is the 5:15 still okay if I’m 10 minutes late?”

Assistant
On. It answers this thread.
Owner
Nobody. Anyone at the desk can pick it up.
Auto reset
Not needed.
Assistant

The assistant is handling this thread. Take over to reply yourself.

In the product, the 24-hour clock is measured from the thread’s last message, and a sweep runs every hour. Doctors don’t see the inbox at all.
Media

What patients can send

Whatever WhatsApp sends, the inbox shows. Nothing is silently dropped.

Photos, video
Shown in the thread. Files pass through a proxy when you open them and are never stored by us.
Voice notes
Play in the thread. The assistant can't listen to them, so it alerts staff instead.
Documents
Open straight from the thread.
Locations
Locations, contact cards, stickers and button taps all appear in the thread.
Unknown types
Kept with a short explanation instead of disappearing.
After 30 days
Meta deletes media files. The thread tells you to ask the patient to resend.
The 24-hour rule

WhatsApp's window, handled

WhatsApp allows free-form replies only for 24 hours after the patient's last message. The inbox shows the clock and gives you the way back in.

  1. Patient writes

    The window opens. You and the assistant can reply freely, and those replies don't count against your message allowance.

  2. The window closes

    After 24 quiet hours the composer locks, so nobody sends a message WhatsApp would refuse.

  3. Send a template

    Pick an approved template, fill in its blanks and send it. Templates count against your allowance.

  4. Patient replies

    Only the patient's reply reopens the window. A template on its own doesn't.

The inbox in numbers

Small numbers, big difference

Window
24H
WhatsApp's free-form reply window, shown on every thread.
Reply
4096
Characters allowed in one staff reply.
Media
30D
How long Meta keeps media before it expires.
Ticks
4
Sent, delivered, read, failed. On every message.

Front desk tip

Front desk tip

Leave the assistant on overnight and at weekends. The moment a patient sounds upset, press Take over: the thread is yours and the assistant goes quiet.

Each morning, filter by 'Assistant paused' to see every conversation that needed a person.

What it doesn't do yet

We'd rather tell you now than have you find out in week two.

Help menu

Questions, answered

Do we need a WhatsApp Business account?

Yes. Mediora connects to your own WhatsApp Business number through Meta's Cloud API. We walk you through finding the IDs and token in Meta's dashboard, and check them with Meta before anything is saved.

Can several receptionists use it at once?

Yes. Everyone at the desk sees the same threads live, can assign threads to each other, and sees who sent each reply.

Can doctors see patient messages?

No. The inbox is for the owner and the front desk. Doctors work in the calendar and the clinical record.

What happens to messages that arrive while we're closed?

They land in the inbox like any other. On Professional or Enterprise with the assistant switched on, it can answer them. Otherwise they're waiting, unread, when you open.

Do staff replies count against our message allowance?

Free-form replies inside the 24-hour window don't. Approved templates do: confirmations, reminders, re-engagement messages and campaigns.

Do you store patients' photos and voice notes?

No. Media is fetched from Meta through a proxy when someone opens it, and isn't stored by us. Meta deletes media after 30 days.

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