A calendar, not a sticky note
Queue a message for any future date and time. A calendar and an agenda view show everything still pending, so the week you've already committed to is something you can look at.
Scheduled messages
Schedule WhatsApp messages
Queue a message for a date and time — to one person or a whole list, personalised for each — and watch it sit in a calendar until it's due. The queue lives in your browser, not on a server, which is the honest catch: your machine has to be awake with WhatsApp Web open when the moment arrives.
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When it earns its keep
The follow-up you'd have forgotten
You know now what you should send on Thursday. Thursday is when you'll be busy. A scheduler is just the gap between those two facts.
One job, the whole list
Scheduled sends run on the broadcast engine, so a single job can go to many recipients — with variables filling in each person's details rather than sending one generic blast.
It can carry more than text
Attach a photo, a document or a contact card, or drop in a saved template. Whatever you'd have sent live, you can queue for later.
How it works
Three steps, inside WhatsApp Web
Write it once
Compose it the way you'd compose a broadcast — variables for each recipient's details, a photo, a document or a contact card, or a saved template you already keep.
Pick who, and when
One person or a whole list, then the date and time. It drops into the calendar alongside everything else that's still pending, where you can see it, edit it or drop it.
Leave the tab open
Wanova sends it from your own browser at the moment it's due, so the machine has to be awake for it. Guards keep a job from firing twice.
Read this part
Your browser is the scheduler
Most people searching for this want a cloud scheduler. This isn't one, and you should know that before you pay rather than at 8am.
The machine has to be awake
The queue lives in your browser, so Wanova can only send when that browser is running with WhatsApp Web open. Close the laptop at 11pm and the 8am message doesn't go anywhere. Nothing on our side is watching the clock for you.
More than ~2 hours late is a missed job
If the moment passes while you're away, Wanova sends it when you come back — but only if it's less than about two hours late. Past that it's marked missed and not sent, on purpose: a “good morning” arriving at 3pm is worse than not arriving.
That's the trade, and it's the good half
Because the queue is local, no Wanova server is ever involved in a scheduled send — the list and the message don't pass through us on their way out. The price of that is a machine that has to be awake.
Our advice, against our own sales interest: if you need messages to go out from a machine that's switched off — an overnight queue, a weekend campaign, a 6am send from a laptop in a bag — this is the wrong tool, and no setting here will change that. And automating WhatsApp Web isn't officially supported in the first place: that's real terms-of-service risk, and no tool — ours included — removes it.
And then?
Knowing when is the easy part
A queue is only worth as much as the reason you put something in it. Picking the moment is the trivial half — remembering there was someone to follow up with at all is the half that costs you deals.
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Wanova is a co-pilot first
Before you can schedule the follow-up, you have to remember it exists. Wanova tracks who went quiet after your quote, who's been waiting since this morning and what you promised — so the message you queue for Thursday is the one that was actually worth queueing.
Runs locallySome replies can't be queued in advance
A scheduled message answers a question you already knew about. Most of your inbox isn't that — it's a question that hasn't been asked yet, arriving while you're in a meeting or asleep.
For those, the co-pilot reads the conversation you're already having and writes the draft into your composer, from this customer's stage and your own notes. It doesn't send it. You read it, you change it, you press send — the same as if you'd typed it.
You always press send
Plans
Scheduling is on every plan
One price per account — not per person and not per number. Every plan covers several WhatsApp numbers and as many teammates as share them. The AI co-pilot starts on Professional.
Starter$14.99/moup to 3 numbers · every local tool · 3,000 AI credits
Professional$24.99/moup to 10 numbers · AI co-pilot · 5,000 AI credits
Expert$34.99/mounlimited numbers · 7,000 AI credits · webhooks
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FAQ
Questions, answered
Does my computer have to be on to send a scheduled WhatsApp message?
Yes. This isn't a cloud scheduler — the queue lives in your browser, so Wanova can only send when your machine is awake with WhatsApp Web open. Close the laptop at 11pm and the 8am message doesn't go anywhere.
What happens if my browser was closed when the message was due?
Wanova sends it when you come back — but only if it's less than about two hours late. Past that the job is marked missed and never sent, deliberately: a “good morning” arriving at 3pm is worse than not arriving.
Can I schedule a message to more than one person?
Yes. Scheduled sends run on the same engine as broadcasts, so one job can go to a whole list, with variables filling in each recipient's details. It can carry a photo, a document or a contact card, or reuse a saved template.
Which plans include scheduling?
Every plan. Scheduled messages are part of the local toolbox that Starter already includes, alongside broadcasts, templates, keyword replies and export — one flat price per account rather than per user: $14.99, $24.99 or $34.99 a month, covering several WhatsApp numbers and however many teammates work them.
Where is my scheduled queue stored?
In your browser. The queue and the sending are entirely local — there's no Wanova server involved in a scheduled send.
Can a scheduled message go out twice?
There are guards against a job firing twice, so a queued message goes out once.
Is scheduling safe for my WhatsApp account?
Automating WhatsApp Web isn't officially supported, so there's real terms-of-service risk and no tool — ours included — can remove it. A scheduled message is just a message: what matters is that it's going to someone who expects to hear from you.
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