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WhatsApp shared team inbox: assignment, SLAs and collision prevention

Published 2026-08-08 · Updated 2026-08-08 · 6 min read

A shared WhatsApp inbox routes each conversation to one owner through assignment rules, shows live presence so two agents don't draft a reply to the same customer at once, and tracks first-response and resolution SLAs with breach alerts.

Assignment and queues

Conversations route to a team or agent based on rules — business hours, skill-based queues, or simple round-robin — with capacity checks so one agent does not get overloaded while another sits idle.

Collision prevention in practice

Live presence and typing indicators are the actual mechanism: an agent opening a conversation another agent is already viewing or drafting a reply in sees that in real time, before either sends a message, rather than finding out after two replies land.

SLA timers and CSAT

First-response and resolution SLA timers raise a breach alert when a conversation is at risk of missing its target, and an automated CSAT survey can go out once a conversation is marked resolved, closing the loop on whether the SLA target actually reflected customer experience.

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