About this plugin
ArrayCodes Order Notifications for WooCommerce connects your WooCommerce store to the WhatsApp Business API (Meta) and automatically sends order notifications via WhatsApp.
Includes:
- New order notification for the customer
- New order notification for the seller
- Receive messages — view incoming WhatsApp conversations from your admin panel
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External Services
This plugin connects to the Meta (Facebook) Graph API to deliver WhatsApp Business messages and to manage message templates. codes or any other third party beyond Meta.
Meta (Facebook) Graph API
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When and what data is sent:
- When a new WooCommerce order is placed — the customer’s WhatsApp phone number, the order ID, and the configured message template name are sent to Meta to trigger a notification to the customer and/or seller.
- When the store admin loads or saves message template settings — template names and language codes are fetched from or submitted to the Meta Business account.
- When the store admin uses the debug/connection tools — the configured Access Token is sent to Meta to verify its validity.
- When a WhatsApp message is received — Meta sends a webhook payload to your site containing the sender’s phone number and message content; no data is sent outbound at that moment.
Legal:
- Meta Platform Terms: https://developers.facebook.com/terms/
- WhatsApp Business Policy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/business-policy/
- Meta Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
Development
The unminified JavaScript and CSS source files are included in the plugin under the assets/src/ directory.
Building from source
js 20+ and npm 10+.
- Navigate to the plugin directory.
- Run npm install to install dependencies.
- Run npm run build to compile assets into assets/build/.
For development with live reloading, use npm run start instead of npm run build.