Leads from a Facebook form are easiest to reach soon after they submit, and many people read WhatsApp before email. FlowMattic sends each new lead an approved WhatsApp template from your business number, chosen by the form they filled in, and can tell your sales team about the lead on WhatsApp too. It runs from your own WordPress site.
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When this happens in Facebook Lead Ads1 trigger
Do this in WhatsApp Cloud API5 actions
1. TriggerNew Lead
2. ActionSend Template Message
When Facebook Lead Ads fires New Lead, FlowMattic runs Send Template Message in WhatsApp Cloud API with the data from that event.
You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps
Facebook Lead Ads and WhatsApp Cloud API workflows you can build
Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.
Ready-made template
Greet each new Facebook lead with a WhatsApp template
The lead gets a short approved message with their name and the offer they asked about, which starts a conversation your team can continue in the WhatsApp inbox.
Agencies and multi-location businesses run several forms at once. A Router reads the form name and sends the template written for that offer, branch or language.
New Lead→Router→Send Template Message
Notify the assigned sales rep on WhatsApp
A Lookup Table maps the lead's city or product to a rep's number, and a template message gives that rep the name and phone of their new lead to call.
New Lead→Lookup Table→Send Template Message
Send a reminder template a day after a booking lead
For appointment or consultation forms, a first template confirms the request and a Delay sends a reminder template the next day with the time they chose.
New Lead→Send Template Message→Delay→Send Template Message
Skip leads without a usable phone number
Text Formatter adds the country code to numbers typed without one, and a Filter stops the workflow when the field is empty or too short, so no message is wasted.
New Lead→Text Formatter→Filter→Send Template Message
Reach leads that came in before the workflow existed
Run Retrieve Leads once for a form, loop over the list with Iterator and send each person the template, so last week's leads are not left waiting.
Greet each new Facebook lead with a WhatsApp templateTemplate
1. Trigger in Facebook Lead Ads
New Lead
2. Action in WhatsApp Cloud API
Send Template Message
Fields mapped from the earlier steps (a typical setup)
From Facebook Lead Ads
To WhatsApp Cloud API
Phone number
Recipient phone number
First name
Template variable 1
Form name
Template variable 2
Built on the FlowMattic canvas. Test each step with real data, then switch the workflow on.
Triggers and actions in this pair
A trigger starts a workflow. An action is something FlowMattic does in the app as a step.
Good to know
Every workflow here sends Send Template Message, because a new lead has not messaged your number yet. The text, image, video and document actions are for people in an open session.
Every workflow on this page starts from a new lead, so a lead's WhatsApp reply does not start one. Answer replies from the WhatsApp inbox.
Facebook Lead Ads has one trigger and one action here: New Lead and Retrieve Leads. Retrieve Leads works per lead form.
Lead form questions are your own. Map from a captured test lead, since field names follow the questions you wrote.
Send Template MessageSend template message to user's WhatsApp
Send Text MessageSend text message to user created or replied session
Send Image MessageSend image message to user created or replied session
Send Video MessageSend video message to user created or replied session
Send Document MessageSend document message to user created or replied session
Why run this pair with FlowMattic
Facebook Lead Ads and WhatsApp Cloud API connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.
Reply while the lead is warm
The template goes out as soon as FlowMattic receives the lead, without anyone watching Ads Manager.
Every campaign, one flat cost
Runs are unlimited, so a busy ad week costs nothing extra in FlowMattic. You pay only Meta's WhatsApp charges.
Lead details stay on your server
Names and phone numbers pass from Facebook to WhatsApp through FlowMattic on your own WordPress site.
Common questions
Can I send a WhatsApp message to Facebook leads automatically?
Yes. A FlowMattic workflow with the Facebook Lead Ads New Lead trigger can run WhatsApp Cloud API Send Template Message to the phone number on the form, with the lead's name filled into the template.
Can I send a brochure or image to a new lead?
Image and document messages are meant for people in an open session. Put the brochure link in the approved template, or send the file yourself from the WhatsApp inbox once the lead replies.
Can each ad campaign send a different message?
Yes. Use a Router on the form name and give each path its own template, or build one workflow per form.
Do I need a WhatsApp Business account?
Yes. WhatsApp Cloud API works with a WhatsApp Business account and a phone number set up in Meta for the Cloud API. Connect it once under Connects.
Can a lead get a WhatsApp message and land in my CRM?
Yes. Add your CRM's step to the same workflow after the WhatsApp step, for example creating the contact, so one lead is messaged and stored together.
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Reviewed 27 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Facebook Lead Ads integration 2.0.2, WhatsApp Cloud API integration 1.0.1.