Putting three channels in one list is the easy part, and every tool does it. The part that decides whether it works is that the three channels keep their own rules after they arrive.
Up until the customer says yes, an assistant that can book and an assistant that only sounds like it can are word for word identical. Everything that decides which one you have is invisible in the transcript.
Two things you have been doing for free are about to appear on your bill. What they are, what they cost, and what is worth changing before the month starts.
MCP is the open standard that lets an AI assistant like Claude or Cursor plug into the software your business runs on and do real work there: find a customer, check the diary, book the slot, chase the invoice. This guide explains it in plain words, how it differs from an API and a chatbot, and what an assistant can do with DMly’s MCP server, safely.
Ten words in plain English, a tour of the workshop, and five real automations you’ll ship by the end: a welcome, instant answers, an out-of-hours reply, an appointment reminder and a review request. No developer appears anywhere in this guide.
A practical guide to points and rewards, automatic reward triggers, membership plans and recurring billing for local businesses, and how to run all four from WhatsApp with DMly.
A WhatsApp invoice is three things at once: a document your customer actually opens, a link that takes the payment, and a record that keeps itself. This guide builds all three with DMly, in that order, from Finance defaults and Meta’s template rules to deposits, cash records, statements and the reminders that chase for you.
Shopify WhatsApp automation connects your store’s checkouts, orders, stock and customers to WhatsApp, so confirmations, tracking updates, abandoned-checkout nudges, back-in-stock alerts, review requests and support run on their own. This guide explains how the connection works, which store events you can automate, what to build first, and how to set it up with DMly.
Instagram DM automation answers comments, story replies, mentions and DMs on your behalf, inside Meta’s rules, and (done well) ends in a booking, an order or a saved contact rather than just another message. This guide explains what it is, how it works, the rules that govern it, what it looks like across industries, and how DMly does it.
Meta’s actual per-message WhatsApp Business API prices for 19 markets, pulled from the official rate card, dated, and explained: what marketing, utility and authentication messages cost by country, which messages are free, and what a real month adds up to.
A WhatsApp chatbot costs most small businesses between about $30 and $200 a month in 2026, and almost every page that answers otherwise is hiding a line item. Here is the whole bill, itemized, with three real months worked out to the cent.
Every date worth a WhatsApp campaign in 2026, quarter by quarter, with the campaign idea, the template to prepare and the deadline nobody plans for: the one two weeks before the holiday, when the template needs submitting.
WhatsApp-first automation for local business, message, book, sell and get reviewed, all in one place.
