How to Design Diwali Festival Post & Send on WhatsApp Using Pabbly Connect

Learn how to design a Diwali Festival post and send it via WhatsApp using Pabbly Connect in this step-by-step tutorial. Discover hidden automation capabilities within your existing tools. This guide shows you how to connect your essential applications and permanently eliminate redundant manual processes.

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1. Accessing Pabbly Connect for Diwali Festival Post

To start designing your Diwali Festival post and sending it on WhatsApp, first, you need to access Pabbly Connect. Go to the Pabbly website and log in to your account. If you are a new user, click on the ‘Sign up for free’ button to create your account.

Once logged in, navigate to the dashboard of Pabbly Connect. Here, you will create a new workflow by clicking the plus sign. Name your workflow, for example, ‘Design Diwali Festival Post and Send on WhatsApp,’ and click on create to proceed.

2. Setting Up the Trigger in Pabbly Connect

In this section, you will set up a trigger for your workflow using Pabbly Connect. Select the application as ‘Schedule’ to determine when your workflow should run. Choose the option to run the workflow ‘Once’ on a specific date and time.

• Select the date: 24th October 2022
• Set the time: 10 AM

After scheduling, click on ‘Save’. This setup ensures that your workflow will trigger at the specified time to send Diwali wishes to your customers.

3. Integrating Google Sheets with Pabbly Connect

Next, you need to integrate Google Sheets with Pabbly Connect to fetch customer details. In the action window, select ‘Google Sheets’ and choose the action event as ‘Get Rows’. Click on connect, and then add a new connection to link your Google account.

Once connected, select your spreadsheet named ‘Customer Data’ and specify the range as A2:C to capture all filled rows. Make sure to enable the option to switch from simple response to advanced response to capture all customer data in one go.

4. Designing the Diwali Post Using Pabbly Connect

With customer data ready, you can now design the Diwali post using Pabbly Connect and Switchboard Canvas. Add a new action step and choose ‘Switchboard Canvas’ as the application. Select the action event as ‘Create Images’ and connect your Switchboard account by entering your API key.

Choose the Diwali template you created earlier and specify the dimensions (1920 width, 1080 height). Map the customer name from the iterator response to personalize each post. Click ‘Save and send test request’ to generate the customized image for each customer.

5. Sending the Diwali Post on WhatsApp

Finally, to send the customized Diwali post to customers, integrate WhatsApp with Pabbly Connect. Add another action step, select ‘WhatsApp Cloud API’, and choose ‘Send Template Message’ as the action event. Connect your WhatsApp account using the required credentials.

Select the message template for Diwali wishes and map the recipient’s mobile number from the iterator response. Provide the header image URL from the generated post and fill in any other required fields. Click ‘Save and send test request’ to deliver the message via WhatsApp.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to design a Diwali Festival post and send it via WhatsApp using Pabbly Connect. By integrating Google Sheets, Switchboard Canvas, and WhatsApp, you can automate holiday greetings effectively.