Arabic WhatsApp chatbot for business
Answer customers on WhatsApp in Arabic first, around the clock: menus and buttons in Arabic, an AI agent that understands Arabic and English, lookups in your own systems and a clean handover to a person in the shared inbox.
Arabic WhatsApp conversation handled by a chatbot, then handed to an agent. Brand and messages are sample data.
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OmniChannels.ai runs Arabic WhatsApp chatbots on the official WhatsApp Business API through BroadNet, an official Meta Business Solution Provider. Flow bots answer with Arabic menus, buttons and lists; AI agents from BroadNet AI understand Arabic and English, remember context and use your tools. When a customer asks for a person, the conversation moves to an agent with its full history.
What an Arabic WhatsApp chatbot can do for you
Start with the questions your team answers every day in Arabic, automate those, and keep people for the rest.
Arabic first, English when needed
Write every flow, button and reply in Arabic, offer English as a choice, and let customers switch language at the start of the chat.
AI agents that understand Arabic
BroadNet AI agents understand Arabic and English, keep memory across the conversation and answer from your knowledge base instead of fixed menus only.
Menus, buttons and lists in Arabic
Use WhatsApp quick-reply buttons and list messages labelled in Arabic, so customers tap instead of typing.
WhatsApp Flows for forms
Collect a booking, a complaint or a lead through a WhatsApp Flow with Arabic fields, without sending customers to a website.
Lookups and actions in your systems
Check an order, a balance or a free appointment through your API, and let AI agents act through tools connected over MCP.
Handover to a person
Move the chat to an agent in the shared inbox when the customer asks or the bot cannot help, with every earlier message in the thread.
Arabic templates outside the 24-hour window
Start conversations with approved Arabic marketing, utility and authentication templates, with variables, media and buttons.
Cloud, private cloud or on-premise
Run the AI agent as SaaS, in a private cloud or on-premise when your data must stay inside your own environment.
Flow chatbot or AI agent for Arabic conversations?
Both run on WhatsApp and both hand over to your team. Choose by how predictable the conversation is.
| Item | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Flow chatbot | Available | Arabic menus, keywords, buttons and lists with answers written in advance. Best for order status, opening hours, bookings and FAQs, and easy for compliance teams to review. |
| AI agent (BroadNet AI) | Add-on | Understands free-text Arabic and English, answers from your knowledge base, remembers context and uses tools. Best when customers phrase questions in many different ways. |
| Flow plus AI agent | Available | A flow handles the welcome menu and fixed tasks, then passes open questions to the AI agent or a person. |
| Human handover | Available | Either bot passes the conversation to an agent in the shared inbox with tags, assignment and the full history. |
How to launch your Arabic WhatsApp chatbot
The fastest bots start small: a few frequent questions done well, then more as you learn from real chats.
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Connect WhatsApp
Onboard your number to the WhatsApp Business API through Meta Embedded Signup, or keep the number you already use with us.
- 2
List the top questions
Pull your most frequent Arabic and English questions from recent chats and decide which the bot answers and which go to people.
- 3
Write in natural Arabic
Write replies the way your agents speak to customers, keep buttons short and test how they display on Android and iPhone.
- 4
Connect your systems
Link order, booking or CRM lookups through your API, and add a knowledge base if you use an AI agent.
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Test, launch, improve
Test with your team, launch to a share of traffic, then review transcripts weekly and add flows where customers get stuck.
When an Arabic WhatsApp chatbot is a good fit
A good fit when
- Most of your customers write to you in Arabic, and the same questions come up every day.
- Customers message outside working hours, including evenings and weekends, and expect an answer.
- Your systems can answer order, booking or account lookups through an API.
- You want automation to hand over to people cleanly instead of trapping customers in a menu.
Good to know before you start
- Customers write in different dialects and often mix Arabic and English; test the bot with real messages from your own customers before relying on it.
- A flow bot only follows the paths you write; open-ended questions need an AI agent or a person.
- Meta's rules still apply: business-initiated messages need approved templates and service replies follow the customer service window.
- The bot can only look up data your systems expose through an API.
Arabic WhatsApp chatbot questions
Can a WhatsApp chatbot reply in Arabic?
Yes. Flow chatbots reply with Arabic text, buttons and lists you write, and BroadNet AI agents understand and answer in Arabic and English. You can make Arabic the default and let customers choose English at the start of the conversation.
Does the chatbot understand Gulf dialect or Arabic written in Latin letters?
AI agents understand Arabic and English, but how well a bot handles a particular dialect, or Arabic typed in Latin letters, depends on your customers' real messages. Test with transcripts from your own chats, and add buttons so customers can always tap instead of typing.
Do I need the WhatsApp Business API for a chatbot?
Yes. Automated replies, integrations and several agents on one number need the WhatsApp Business API rather than the WhatsApp Business app. BroadNet is an official Meta Business Solution Provider and onboards your number through Meta Embedded Signup.
What does a WhatsApp chatbot cost?
Meta charges per delivered message by category and market, and from 1 October 2026 also charges service messages inside the customer service window after 1,000 free service messages per business phone number each month. BroadNet passes Meta's rates through with zero markup; the platform and AI agent are quoted for your volumes.
How does a customer reach a human agent?
Add an option such as "talk to an agent" to every menu. When the customer picks it, or the bot cannot help, the conversation moves to the shared inbox and is assigned to an agent, who sees everything the customer and the bot wrote.
Can the chatbot book appointments or check orders?
Yes, if your systems expose that data through an API. The bot asks for the order number or preferred date, checks your system and replies with the result. AI agents can also call tools connected through MCP to complete actions.
Can the same bot work on Instagram, web chat or voice?
Yes. Chatbots and AI agents also run on Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, RCS and web chat, and AI agents can answer phone calls in Arabic. Each channel shows the buttons and formats it supports.
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