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Jackdesk: Admin Manual

What owners and managers do inside Jackdesk: WhatsApp templates, automatic replies (workflows), booking forms, reports, customer records for everyone, and keeping the team on track.

Read the Jackdesk User Manual first: this manual adds only what admins do. Organisation-wide settings (channels, staff, roles, how chats are shared) are in the Jackdesk Store Admin Manual. Updated 26 October 2026.

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Who is an admin, and where things are

You want to change…Where
WhatsApp templates and saved repliesDesk → More → Message templates
Automatic replies, menus, routing to a departmentDesk → More → Workflows
Booking and enquiry formsDesk → More → Forms
ReportsDesk → Insights (rail)
Customer cards and columns for everyone, imports, mergingDesk → Customers
Blocked numbersDesk → More → Privacy
Channels, staff, roles, how chats are shared, the railStore (store.jackdesk.com) — see the Jackdesk Store Admin Manual
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WhatsApp templates and saved replies

A template is a message WhatsApp approves in advance. You need one to write first to a customer, after 24 hours of silence, and for every WhatsApp campaign.

More → Message templates.
More → Message templates.
  1. 1Choose the WhatsApp number (or mailbox, for saved replies).
  2. 2New — make a template.
  3. 3Its state: approved (ready to use), pending, rejected (with Meta’s reason) or paused.
  4. 4Sample — download a sheet with one column per blank in the template, for campaigns from a spreadsheet. Blank gives headers only.
  5. 5Edit or delete it.
A new template.
A new template.
  1. Name: lowercase letters, numbers and underscores, for example service_due_reminder. It cannot be changed later.
  2. Language, and Category: Utility for updates, receipts and reminders about something the customer already did; Marketing for offers. Marketing messages cost more and need the customer’s consent.
  3. Header (optional, up to 60 characters), for example “Your vehicle is ready”.
  4. Body: the message. Use {{1}}, {{2}} for what is filled in when sending (name, amount, date).
  5. Footer (optional), for example “Reply STOP to unsubscribe”. Buttons can be added below.
  6. Press Submit for approval. Meta usually approves within minutes, sometimes a day.
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Workflows: automatic replies and routing

A workflow does something by itself when something happens: greets a new customer, sends a menu, hands the chat to the right department, replies after hours.

More → Workflows.
More → Workflows.
  1. 1New workflow.
  2. 2Settings — who may build workflows, limits, and an AI key if you use AI steps.
  3. 3See what it does, in plain steps.
  4. 4Pause or Start it.
  5. 5Delete it.
A workflow, read as steps.
A workflow, read as steps.
  1. 1What starts it (here: a customer messages us), then each step below it.
  2. 2Edit what it says — change the words of its messages without touching the steps.
  3. 3Design — open the drawing board to change the steps themselves.
  1. Press New workflow, give it a name (“Welcome new customers”) and a note. It starts paused.
  2. In Design, choose what starts it and add steps: send a message or a menu, read the customer’s choice, give the chat to a department, mark it as a sales enquiry, wait, check the time…
  3. Test it with your own phone number.
  4. Publish it and press Start.
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Forms and bookings

More → Forms.
More → Forms.
  1. 1New form.
  2. 2Each form, with how many times it was filled.
  3. 3Edit its questions and where answers go.
Editing a form: its questions (short text, date, pick one…), the thank-you message, where answers go (a Google Sheet, an email, a webhook), and for bookings, the time slots.
Editing a form: its questions (short text, date, pick one…), the thank-you message, where answers go (a Google Sheet, an email, a webhook), and for bookings, the time slots.
  1. Make the form and its questions.
  2. For bookings, set the slots (or let customers give a preferred time) and whether bookings confirm by themselves.
  3. Send it from a chat (the form button beside the attachment icon), or let a workflow send it.
  4. Bookings appear in Calendar → Appointments, where staff confirm them.
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Insights: how the team is doing

Who can do this People whose role allows “View reports”.

Insights (rail).
Insights (rail).
  1. 1The period: Today, 7 days, 30 days, Quarter, 6 months, Year, So far.
  2. 2Export to a spreadsheet.
  3. 3Tabs: Today, Marketing, Sales, Service, Team now, Tags, Overview.
  4. 4Narrow to one person, one channel, or one customer.
  5. 5Past your SLAs — leads not followed up, quotes not chased, service overdue: act on these first.
Team now: who is holding what right now.
Team now: who is holding what right now.
Today: what came in and what is waiting, today.
Today: what came in and what is waiting, today.
Revenue (rail): customers by where they are in their life with you, segments, renewals and sales. Switch it on in the Store → Revenue.
Revenue (rail): customers by where they are in their life with you, segments, renewals and sales. Switch it on in the Store → Revenue.
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Customer records for everyone

Customers → More.
Customers → More.
  1. 1Make customers from contacts — every loose contact becomes a customer (see the User Manual).
  2. 2Sync from Workbook — bring the clients you keep in Workbook.
  3. 3Import customers from a spreadsheet.
  4. 4WhatsApp history — bring chats exported from a phone, so old conversations are searchable.
Import customers: one row per person — the customer they belong to, and their WhatsApp number, SMS number and email. Rows naming the same customer become one customer with several contacts. Template gives the sample sheet; nothing is saved until you have seen the preview, and an import can be undone.
Import customers: one row per person — the customer they belong to, and their WhatsApp number, SMS number and email. Rows naming the same customer become one customer with several contacts. Template gives the sample sheet; nothing is saved until you have seen the preview, and an import can be undone.
WhatsApp history: on the phone, export a chat (without media is fastest) and bring the file here, one chat or many.
WhatsApp history: on the phone, export a chat (without media is fastest) and bring the file here, one chat or many.

The cards and columns everyone sees

Customers → Edit cards.
Customers → Edit cards.
  1. 1New card — a count of customers matching your own filter (for example “AMC customers in Erode”).
  2. 2Just for me — keep this choice for yourself.
  3. 3For everyone — make it everyone’s default.
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Keeping tickets moving

Tickets → table view: tick several tickets to give them to one person or change their status together.
Tickets → table view: tick several tickets to give them to one person or change their status together.
WatchWhere
Overdue tickets and who holds themTickets → Overdue; Insights → Team now
Tickets nobody has takenTickets → Filters → nobody, or the Needs assignment card
A full report for a meetingTickets → Report → 7, 30 or 90 days → Download spreadsheet
Escalations to youMy work → Waiting on me
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Blocked numbers and the organisation chart

More → Privacy: numbers and addresses blocked on each channel, with the reason. Unblock one here.
More → Privacy: numbers and addresses blocked on each channel, with the reason. Unblock one here.
More → Organisation chart: who reports to whom. Change it in the Store → People.
More → Organisation chart: who reports to whom. Change it in the Store → People.
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When something goes wrong

A template was rejected

Open Message templates: the rejected template shows Meta’s reason. Change the words (often: too promotional for Utility, a blank at the start or end, or a spelling mistake) and submit again.

A workflow sent the wrong message

Press Pause on it at once (Workflows). To stop every workflow, switch off “Run workflows” in the Store → App settings. Then contact the Jackdesk admin.

Bookings are not arriving

Check the form is on (Forms), that Appointments is switched on in the Store → App settings, and look in Calendar → Appointments.

Insights shows nothing

Check the period at the top and the filters (person, channel). Insights must also be on in the Store → App settings.

I am not sure what a setting does

Do not change it. Write to the Jackdesk admin at jackdesk.admin@gmail.com with a screenshot of the setting.