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Furniture stores and retailers · WhatsApp marketing

Someone has sent you a sofa photograph and asked whether you have it.

WhatsApp is where a furniture enquiry now starts, usually as a screenshot from Instagram with one line asking whether you make it. It is also where your quotes, measurement dates and delivery updates live. GullySales sets up the catalogue, the replies and the rules for what you may broadcast.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What WhatsApp marketing means

WhatsApp marketing is sending updates, offers and reminders to customers on the app most Indian buyers already check daily. GullySales sets up business WhatsApp, writes the message templates and keeps the list consented and current.

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Last updated 8 Nov 2026.

For furniture stores and retailers

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The screenshot enquiry deserves a real answer”

    A customer sends a picture they saved from Instagram and asks whether you have it. Replying please visit showroom loses the customer. A price band, two of your own pieces that come close, and an offer of a measurement visit keeps the conversation going.

  • “The catalogue is where WhatsApp earns its place in a furniture shop”

    Your business catalogue can carry sofas, dining sets and wardrobes with price bands and finishes, browsable at eleven at night from a phone. That is how furniture is actually shortlisted now, long before anybody drives to a showroom.

  • “The festival broadcast to three thousand delivery numbers”

    Numbers you collected to send a delivery update are not a marketing list. Send a Diwali offer to all of them and a share of your best past customers will block the number, which is the number you need when their delivery slips.

What we do

What we deliver for furniture stores and retailers.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A WhatsApp Business catalogue by room

    Sofas, dining sets, wardrobes and beds loaded with photographs, price bands and finish options, organised the way a customer shops.

    Result: A customer shortlists from their phone at night and arrives at the showroom ready.

  2. Saved replies for the screenshot enquiry

    Prepared answers that give a price band, offer the nearest pieces you stock and ask for the room size, ready for whoever is on the shop phone.

    Result: Every enquiry gets a useful answer, not an invitation to visit.

  3. A quote and measurement thread per customer

    Quotes, measurement dates and delivery updates kept in the customer's own thread and logged against the enquiry record.

    Result: The conversation is not lost when the salesman is off that day.

  4. Consent and opt-out on the broadcast list

    A separate list of customers who agreed to offers, with an opt-out line on every send and a rule that delivery numbers are not added automatically.

    Result: Your marketing list stays small, willing and unblocked.

  5. An away message that captures the enquiry

    An out-of-hours reply that asks for the room, the piece and the pin code, and points to the catalogue.

    Result: A late enquiry arrives at the shop already half qualified.

  6. Rules for what goes out and how often

    A written limit on festival and sale broadcasts, and a list of what belongs in a one-to-one message instead.

    Result: Customers keep reading your messages because you send few of them.

How the result is measured

  • Messages delivered
  • Reply rate
  • Enquiries from WhatsApp

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full WhatsApp marketing and automation page

What must be in place first

Settle these before the store answers or broadcasts anything.

Two separate yeses at the bill
Ask at billing whether you may send delivery updates, and separately whether you may send offers. Consent for delivery news does not cover the festival broadcast.
Photographs with sizes and inclusions
Shoot each piece in a room setting and state its dimensions, material and what the rate includes, such as delivery and assembly. A listing without sizes brings the same question every time.
One thread for measurement and delivery
Decide who sends measurement-visit and delivery-slot messages, and from which number. A customer waiting for a sofa wants one thread, not three staff members.
Slot messages you start yourself
A delivery-slot message sent after the customer's last chat may need an approved template. Check WhatsApp's current business policy and pricing before promising a message at each stage.
Marketplace enquiries and their numbers
Enquiries from IndiaMART or Justdial arrive as calls or texts. Reply from the Business number if the person writes, and add them to a list only after they say yes.
A one-reply way off the offers list
Let a customer leave the offers list with a single reply, and apply it to your billing records too. Otherwise the next festival message comes from the same list.

Who it is for

This is written for these furniture stores and retailers.

  • Modular kitchen and interior furniture retailers
  • Sofa and living room furniture stores
  • Bedroom and mattress retailers
  • Office furniture suppliers
  • Outdoor and garden furniture retailers
  • Custom carpentry and made-to-order furniture makers
  • Multi-brand furniture showrooms
  • Online-first furniture retailers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no record of who agreed to hear from the store, so a broadcast would reach people who did not ask.
  • Staff reply from personal phones the store cannot see, so threads would leave with them.

How it works

How the whatsapp marketing work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Read the chats you already have

    We read how customers write to you, which questions repeat and where a chat goes quiet. The repeated questions decide what gets automated first.

  2. 2

    Sort the list and the permission

    Contacts who asked to hear from you are separated from numbers that only sit in a phone book. We agree the wording new contacts will see before they say yes.

  3. 3

    Choose the app or the API

    One phone and a small team can stay on the ordinary app. Several people on one number, templates or a CRM link need the API through a provider, which is its own piece of setup work.

  4. 4

    Write the replies and the plan

    The greeting, away message, saved replies and handover rule are written in your words and approved by you. The message plan and its templates follow.

  5. 5

    Connect the record and test

    Each link carries its source line and each chat lands in the CRM. We test on real phones, including a customer who asks for a person.

  6. 6

    Read the unanswered questions

    A question the first reply could not answer becomes a new saved reply or a fixed handover. Stop requests are watched too, with the number's quality rating where the API is used, since both show a message plan that has gone too far.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Can we add every delivery customer to our offers broadcast?
No. They gave the number for an order update. Ask separately whether they want offers, keep the two lists apart, and put an opt-out on every broadcast. A blocked number costs you the delivery message as well as the sale.
Should we send prices on WhatsApp or hold them for the showroom?
Send a band. A customer who gets no number assumes you are expensive and stops replying. A starting price for the range, with the variables named, gets them into the showroom already expecting the right figure.
A customer messages about a defect after delivery. Who deals with it?
Give service its own label in the Business app and ask for the invoice number and a photograph. Log it and offer a visit date. Do not answer from the sales number alone, or the complaint gets lost among new enquiries.
Should we send a PDF catalogue or build a catalogue in WhatsApp?
A PDF suits a large quote but goes stale. The in-app catalogue is updated in one place and shows only what you list. Keep one source of truth, and replace the PDF whenever stock or rates change.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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