Connect a custom store or any website to WhatsApp — order confirmation and abandoned carts with an API key
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The short answer
Is your store custom-built or on a platform not listed? You get an API key and a webhook URL for your developer to install, so every order arrives to be confirmed on WhatsApp, abandoned carts arrive to be followed up, and a signed notice comes back for every confirmation and cancellation.
Your own store is any website or store whose developer can send the order to a URL.
What it actually does
- Confirms every order on WhatsApp before shipping
- Follows up abandoned carts with messages that stop if the customer buys
- Sends the order status to the customer when your site sends it
- Returns a signed notice for every confirmation and cancellation
What changes in your store is up to your developer: a signed notice for every confirmation and cancellation reaches the URL you set, and they update the order status on their side.
How the connection is made on Your own store
In «Store connections» you pick «Any other store», type the store name and URL, then «Create the connection & show the code»: an API key, an order webhook URL and a cart-events one. Your site sends the order to them the moment it is created, and you set a URL on your site that receives a signed notice when the customer confirms or cancels. The technical details are in the developer guide.
And what it does not do on Your own store
The connection needs a developer to add two calls to your site; we cannot read a custom store's products without an interface, so the AI agent answers from the knowledge base rather than a catalogue. If you want a store the agent sells from directly, ArabyBot Store does it with no connection at all.
And why that matters in your market
Many stores in Egypt and the Gulf are custom-built or on small local platforms, and their problem is the same: cash-on-delivery orders shipped unconfirmed. This connection gives them the same confirmation and follow-up that Shopify and WooCommerce stores get.
Connecting, in four steps
- Create an ArabyBot account
Free and with no card — you can try it before paying.
- Connect a WhatsApp number
On the official WhatsApp Cloud API, with the number registered under your own business account.
- Connect your Your own store store
Authorise from your store dashboard, and the products and orders become available to the bot immediately.
- Turn the agent on and test it
Ask it yourself from your own number before you open it to customers, and adjust its rules until it answers the way you want.
Other platforms
Where to go next
Connect your Your own store store
Try it against your real products and read the answers before you pay anything.