Keep WhatsApp Clarifications with Canny Feedback
Bring customer context into the discussion around the product idea it explains.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.
Action
Create Comment
Tool to create a new comment on a post. use when you have the authorid and postid and want to submit feedback or replies.
Why this helps
A useful clarification can stay trapped in a WhatsApp thread, separated from the feedback post.
- Keep relevant customer detail beside the related idea.
- Avoid repeatedly searching chat for the original explanation.
- Give product reviewers more context in one place.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect WhatsApp and Canny once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis to create one from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to add a concise comment only when an inbound message clearly continues an identifiable Canny post and the author is known.
- 4Pick New Message Received as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real follow-up and verify the comment appears on the right post.
Questions about this workflow
Will this comment on every new message?
Instruct Notis to comment only when the message is relevant to a known Canny post and the post and author are identifiable.
Can Notis infer which post a vague message refers to?
It can use available message context, but it should not guess when the match is unclear. Ask it to send uncertain cases to the run report for review.
Does the automation send a WhatsApp response?
No. The selected Canny action creates a comment. It does not reply in WhatsApp.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Whatsapp to Canny. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Whatsapp triggers
Canny actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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Webhook trigger
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Message Status Updated
Triggers when a WhatsApp message status changes. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: WhatsApp Cloud API does not provide a native polling endpoint for message status. Status updates are ONLY delivered via webhooks in real-time. This trigger cannot directly poll the WhatsApp API for status updates. This trigger will return empty results as WhatsApp does not support this operation. To track message status updates, you must: 1. Set up a webhook endpoint to receive status notifications from WhatsApp 2. Store the webhook data in your own database 3. Use a different mechanism to query your stored webhook data For more information, see: - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/webhooks
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New Message Received
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Interactive Reply Received
Triggered when a customer taps a quick-reply button or selects an option from an interactive list message you sent.
Create Comment
Tool to create a new comment on a post. use when you have the authorid and postid and want to submit feedback or replies.
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Triggered when the review status of a WhatsApp message template changes — for example approved, rejected, or flagged — on your WhatsApp Business Account.
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