Introduction
WhatsApp Official announced the deprecation of Groups through the WhatsApp Business API. The Groups API node will stop accepting any new WhatsApp Business API client phone numbers on July 6, 2020 and end for all WhatsApp Business API client phone numbers on Oct 6, 2020.
You can enable processing messages from WhatsApp Groups by clicking the respective settings to turn on or off as shown below from the Settings -> Channels (Tab) -> WhatsApp Web Automation
Please note currently WhatsApp Group is available only for customers who are using our API Services. If you have too many active WhatsApp Group's then it may drastically slow down your regular WhatsApp Sending & Receiving Speed
Groups are a great place to share ideas, discuss, keep informed, let’s explore how we can make use of WhatsApp groups effectively for business.
Education
Travel & Tourism
Manpower Consultancies
Stock Market Alerts
Hospitals
Seminars
Internal Communications
Tracking Field Staffs
You can see more business use-case of groups here
When you create a new group and add member's, if the member's privacy is set to Not Join Any Groups then those members will not get added into the group however they will get a notification and manually join the group.
For existing WhatsApp Groups (prior to connecting to Picky Assist) you need to make use of WhatsApp Contact & Group Fetching API to get the WhatsApp Group ID's in order to send and receive messages, to get the members list in an existing group please use the WhatsApp Group ID and call the Fetch Group Details API
If you have many groups which are not in use then please remove the members and delete the group this will help to create more active groups. Currently, WhatsApp has not published any information on how many WhatsApp groups can be created in a number.
Please pay more attention when you promote a member as a group admin as they can perform all tasks you can do like they can change the group icon, delete the invite url, add or remove members / admin.
Don't leave a group created by you until all members in the group are left , technically you can leave a group anytime but the group will be active as long as it has members, if there is an admin in a group WhatsApp will automatically promote a member as admin.
Please mind the group report as this will affect your number reputation and may lead to blockage of your WhatsApp number.
We strongly recommend changing the group invite url after you removed a member or admin as they can join again or share the group invite URL with anyone.
