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Use-case playbook

How a clinic runs appointments and recall on WhatsApp

Clinics juggle appointments, recalls and patient questions across the day, and patients already message the clinic on WhatsApp. This playbook shows how a typical clinic runs booking, reminders and recall in Wutt - an illustrative workflow, not a claim about a specific customer.

What this is

An illustrative playbook of how a typical clinic or medical practice runs this workflow with Wutt - not a claim about a specific customer.

01 · The problem

Appointments live in the diary, questions live in WhatsApp

The classic clinic split: bookings in the practice system, questions on WhatsApp, recalls on a to-do list. Information drifts between the three, appointments get double-booked, and patients who could be recalled sit in the files.

02 · The workflow

How the flow works in Wutt

Requests come into one queue

Patients message the clinic number for appointments and questions. Everything lands in the shared inbox, so front-desk staff answer from one queue instead of one personal phone.

Confirmation and reminder flows run automatically

A confirmed booking triggers a same-day confirmation and a reminder before the visit, with the address and prep instructions. Reschedules follow the same flow.

Recall becomes a broadcast, not a chore

When a recall round is due - follow-ups, checkups, seasonal reminders - the clinic sends it from the workspace to the relevant contact list, and replies land back in the shared inbox.

Every patient thread keeps its history

Notes and tags stay on the conversation, so any staff member picking up the thread knows where the patient stands.

03 · What to expect

Outcomes, honestly framed

The workflow removes the phone-to-diary-to-WhatsApp triangulation that causes missed bookings, and makes recall a scheduled task instead of a memory. Actual results depend on the practice's volume and message quality - the mechanism reduces dropped conversations, which is the measurable part.

04 · Setting it up

How to replicate this

In Wutt: set up the clinic's appointment types, switch on booking, configure reminders, and run recall as a tagged campaign. Included from $11/mo; the $1 first month covers the setup.

Common questions

Many clinics already communicate with patients on WhatsApp. As with any channel, keep patient data handling in line with your local regulations - our security page describes how Wutt stores data.

Yes - the shared inbox is built for teams, with assignment and internal notes so two staff members never answer the same patient twice.

Tag the relevant contacts, compose the message in the workspace, and send it as a campaign; replies come back into the same threads.

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