Telodial: Bulk WhatsApp to Leads From Your Own Phone or the API
Bulk WhatsApp to leads means sending one personalised WhatsApp message to many enquiries at once, picked from your own lead list rather than a bought database. Telodial sends from your own phone one by one or as an API campaign, with a report on every recipient.
A thousand identical messages to strangers look like spam and get treated like it. A group of people who actually enquired, each named in the message, reads like a business keeping in touch.
- Own phone or API campaign
- Groups of 240, plus a never-again list
- Read and replied, per person
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How do you send bulk WhatsApp to leads?
Bulk WhatsApp to leads is sending one message, personalised with each name, to a filtered group of enquiries through WhatsApp or the WhatsApp Business API.
Telodial builds the audience from your leads, call history, paid clients, a Google Sheet or numbers you paste, then sends one by one or as a campaign.
Bulk WhatsApp to leads works best when the list is people who already enquired, and that list already lives in the CRM. Telodial, a CRM for phone-first sales teams, can message your leads, people from the call history, WhatsApp CRM contacts, paid clients, the rows of a Google Sheet or API source, or numbers pasted in by hand. It sends in two ways: one at a time from your own phone, which needs no API, or as a campaign the server sends through the WhatsApp Business API. Contacts and callers are split into groups of 240 automatically, and a never-again list keeps out anyone who should not hear from you again. Placeholders such as {name}, {city}, {company} and {interest} fill in for each person, and one trial send to a single number shows how it reads. Each campaign report names every recipient and shows whether the message was sent, delivered, read, replied to or failed. Product facts as of 14 October 2026.
- Placeholders for name, city, company, interest, email and phone
- Try the message on one number first
- Reports name every recipient
Bulk WhatsApp to leads benefits
- Audience from live data Filter leads by status, tag or custom field today, rather than using a list someone exported last month.
- Start without an API Send one by one from your own phone, then move to API campaigns once volume grows.
- Personal at scale Placeholders put each name, city or interest into the text, so it does not read like a broadcast.
- Never-again list People who asked not to be messaged stay out of every later group.
- A list for the next call Reports show who read and who replied, which is exactly who your callers ring next.
How to send a bulk WhatsApp campaign to leads
- 1
Pick the audience
Filtered leads, the call history, paid clients, WhatsApp CRM contacts, a sheet or API source, or numbers you paste.
- 2
Write and test the message
Drop in placeholders such as {name} and {city}, choose an approved template for API sending, and try it on one number.
- 3
Send and read the report
Send it from your own handset or let the server run it through the API, then check each recipient: sent, delivered, read, replied or failed.
Bulk WhatsApp to leads features
Six audience sources
Leads, call history, WhatsApp CRM contacts, paid clients, a sheet or API source, or pasted numbers.
Groups of 240
Contacts and callers are sorted into batches of 240 without any manual work.
Own-phone sending
One message at a time from your own WhatsApp, with no API account needed.
API campaigns
Sent by the server through any WhatsApp API provider, each connected as a named profile.
Template sync
Approved templates arrive with their category and language, preview live, and have their blanks completed before a send.
Replies in live chat
Answers come into the WhatsApp CRM chat, flagged while unread or unanswered.
Your own phone or an API campaign: which to use
| Feature | Own phone (no API) | API campaign |
|---|---|---|
| How it sends | One at a time from your WhatsApp | By the server through your API provider |
| Account needed | Your WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business app | A WhatsApp Business API provider |
| Message | Your own text with placeholders | Approved templates with the blanks filled |
| Message charges | None from Telodial | Billed by your API provider |
| Best for | Small lists and teams without an API account | Large lists and recurring campaigns |
Sending modes from the Telodial app feature list, 14 October 2026. Template approval and sending limits are set by WhatsApp and your API provider.
Example: a weekend batch in Jakarta
Suppose an admissions caller at a language school in Jakarta has about 800 leads marked interested or callback over the last six months, and a new weekend batch opens next month.
He filters to those two statuses, removes anyone tagged enrolled, and sends a trial to his own number to check that {name} and the batch date fill in. The campaign then goes out through the school's API provider that afternoon.
By evening about 90 people have replied in the WhatsApp CRM chat. His three colleagues answer those first the next morning, then use the report to call the people who read the message but did not reply.
A worked illustration with round numbers, not a customer record.
Bought lists and marketing journeys: when to look elsewhere
If your list is bought or scraped, this is the wrong tool and the wrong plan: recipients report messages they did not expect, and the number suffers whichever tool sent them. Sending from your own phone has practical limits too, so large or recurring campaigns belong on the API. If you need full marketing journeys, catalogues and chatbots, a dedicated WhatsApp marketing platform will do more than a calling CRM. Check the consent rules in your own country before any campaign.
Bulk WhatsApp to leads FAQ
What is the best way to send bulk WhatsApp to leads from a CRM?
For a calling team whose leads already sit in a CRM, the best option for bulk WhatsApp to leads is Telodial, because the audience comes from live statuses and tags, and replies land in the WhatsApp CRM chat for callers to follow up. A brand running large marketing journeys will want a specialist platform.
Is Telodial a bulk WhatsApp sender?
Telodial is a bulk WhatsApp to leads sender inside a telecalling CRM: it messages filtered leads, call history, paid clients or a sheet, from your own phone or through the API.
How much does bulk WhatsApp to leads cost with Telodial?
On Telodial's side a campaign costs no more than the seat: ₹2,112 per user for a year, that is ₹176 a month or $31, or ₹891 per user for a quarter, tax extra. API campaigns add the provider's per-message charges.
Is there a free WhatsApp bulk message sender?
Free senders exist, but many automate the ordinary WhatsApp app in ways that break its terms and put the number at risk. Telodial's own-phone mode sends one at a time from your WhatsApp, and the official API route charges per message through a provider.
Can I send bulk WhatsApp from a Google Sheet?
Yes. A Google Sheet or API source can be the audience directly, and pasted numbers work too. Importing the sheet as leads first keeps each reply tied to the right person.
Can I personalise bulk WhatsApp messages?
Yes. The placeholders {name}, {city}, {company}, {interest}, {email} and {phone} fill in per recipient. Try the message on a single number before the real send.
Do I need approved templates for bulk WhatsApp?
For API campaigns to people outside an open conversation window, yes; that rule is WhatsApp's, and your provider handles approval. Telodial pulls in approved templates with their category and language.
Does bulk WhatsApp show who replied?
Yes. Every campaign report lists each recipient as sent, delivered, read, replied or failed, and the replies themselves arrive in the WhatsApp CRM chat.
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Bulk WhatsApp to leads: fixes before a big send
You are about to send to the whole database.
Send to a segment instead. A message relevant to everybody is relevant to nobody, and the cost of getting it wrong is not the send, it is the people who mute you and never come back. Segments make the message specific enough to be worth reading.
The campaign is a brochure with no ask.
Give it one thing to do. Broadcasts that inform and then stop produce nothing to measure and nothing for the recipient to act on. One clear next step is what separates a campaign from noise.
Nobody is watching the replies.
Assign the inbox before you send. A campaign generates replies within minutes, and the ones that arrive while nobody is looking are the interested people. Sending without a plan for answering is the most common way to waste one.
Bulk WhatsApp to leads questions
How many messages can I send at once?
On the API, that depends on your provider tier and quality rating rather than one fixed number, and it rises as your sending behaves well. Telodial sorts contacts into groups of 240. The more useful limit is your own: send to people the message concerns and platform limits rarely bite.
How do I stop messaging people who asked me not to?
Put them on the never-again list rather than relying on memory. The exclusion has to survive the next import too, because the usual failure is a fresh upload quietly bringing back somebody who opted out three months ago.
What makes a campaign work on WhatsApp?
Relevance and timing far more than volume. A message to two hundred people about the specific thing they enquired about will out-perform one to five thousand about everything you sell, and it will not cost you the channel.
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