[Koha] Koha Notifications - Whatsapp Messaging instead of SMS Service

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Dear Sandeep,

Short answer: No.

Long answer : Maybe. But strongly not recommended. Read below.

WhatsApp do not provide any official API that can be used to push
messages across it's service. Basically they want the users to stay
within their app. Thus there is no chance to do what you are asking
for. There are of course a few unofficial 3rd party APIs that
sometimes work. However using any 3rd party APIs is a violation of
WhatsApp's Terms of Use and may expose any one trying to do so to:

(a) their whatsapp account being blocked OR banned from the service

(b) running the risk of being sued for criminal activity (hacking
under IT Act for bypassing WhatsApp's process)

Hope this helps
indranil.

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar
<sandeep.bhavsar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> Can we send Koha notifications (Circulatons/fine) on users whatsapp instead
> of SMS service.
>
>
>
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> Warm Regards
>
> Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar
> Librarian
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