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Clients who stopped your marketing messages

If a client stops marketing messages from your business on WhatsApp, Corteksa records it on their chat and refuses Marketing templates to them before sending. Utility templates still reach them.

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How it works

WhatsApp lets a client stop marketing messages from any business, or resume them. Corteksa receives this choice and saves it on the client’s chat with that number.

Template type
Client who stopped marketing
Marketing
Refused before sending, with a clear message
Utility, Transactional or Notification
Sent as usual
A free-form message inside the window
Sent as usual

If the client resumes marketing messages, Marketing templates reach them again.

The choice is saved for existing chats only. For a client you’ve never talked to, there’s nothing to refuse yet, and Meta itself rejects the message if it’s sent.

Separately, WhatsApp may limit marketing messages to a specific client for a while, to protect its users’ experience. The message shows as failed, with the reason “WhatsApp is limiting marketing messages to this client right now”.

If something goes wrong

What you see
Why
What to do
“This client stopped marketing messages from your business on WhatsApp”
The client chose to stop them.
Send a Utility template if the content is a service message, or wait for the client to message you.
“WhatsApp is limiting marketing messages to this client right now”
A temporary limit from WhatsApp.
Try again later, or use a template that isn’t marketing.

A real example

Namaa Academy
The situation

A client stopped marketing messages, but she’s enrolled in a course and needs attendance reminders.

What they did
  1. The weekly offers template was refused for her automatically.
  2. The “Lecture reminder” template, in the Utility category, kept reaching her.
The result

The academy respected her wish, and she didn’t miss her reminders.

A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.

Good to know

This only applies to WhatsApp Cloud.
The refusal before sending covers Marketing templates only.
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