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Product and outcomes
What Elarvio does, where it creates leverage, and where a person stays in control.
01What is Elarvio?
Elarvio is a WhatsApp communication and appointment operations platform for service businesses. It connects customer conversations to approved company knowledge, live availability, bookings, and a shared team inbox.
02Is this only a chatbot?
No. Conversation is the entry point. The platform also models services, staff, locations, hours, booking rules, calendars, handovers, company content, billing, and operational audit events.
03What work can it remove from my team?
It can handle approved routine questions, collect structured intake, find valid appointment slots, confirm bookings, prepare reminders, and keep the full context ready when a teammate takes over.
04Will it replace my staff?
It is designed to remove repetitive coordination and protect staff focus. Exceptions, sensitive questions, ambiguous requests, and controlled workflows remain visible and transferable to a person.
Setup and activation
A direct path from registration to a tested, connected workspace.
01What happens after I register?
You enter onboarding, complete the company profile, connect WhatsApp, add services, staff, locations, hours and knowledge, test an inbound message, and then activate the workflows you approve.
02Do I need to request a demonstration?
No. Registration and setup are self-service. The interactive product experience is public, and your workspace contains the real activation path.
03What should I prepare before setup?
Have access to the Meta Business account, the WhatsApp number, service durations and prices, staff schedules, opening hours, booking policies, and the customer questions your team answers repeatedly.
04Can I edit my company after launch?
Yes. The Company workspace lets authorized users update the logo, brand colours, public text, contact details, booking introduction, FAQs, policies, and public visibility.
WhatsApp connection
How the number connects and what the platform needs from Meta.
01How do I connect WhatsApp?
Inside Integrations, start Meta Embedded Signup, authorize the Business account, select the WhatsApp Business Account and phone number, then complete the webhook and inbound-message health check.
02Can I use my existing business number?
Eligibility depends on the number's current WhatsApp and Meta configuration. The connection flow exposes the available numbers; migration constraints must be checked against the current Meta account state.
03Where are WhatsApp access tokens stored?
Integration credentials stay server-side and are encrypted before database storage. They are not returned to the browser or embedded in public code.
04What if automation should stop?
An authorized teammate can take over a conversation. The customer history and operational context remain together so the teammate does not restart from zero.
Bookings and calendars
How valid availability becomes a confirmed operation.
01How are appointment times calculated?
The slot engine combines location hours, staff working time, absences, service duration, before-and-after buffers, minimum notice, booking horizon, existing appointments, and temporary holds.
02Can Elarvio invent an available time?
No. The intended booking path only offers slots returned by the availability engine. The server checks the selected slot again when the customer confirms.
03Can customers book outside WhatsApp?
Yes. Each published company can expose a mobile-ready booking page using the same services, staff, policies, public content, and availability rules.
04What happens if a calendar provider fails?
The operation should surface the sync state rather than silently claim success. Teams can see pending or failed synchronization and resolve the exception.
Plans, billing and checkout
Clear capacity levels with Stripe-hosted payment and account management.
01Which plan should I choose?
Starter suits a focused single-location operation. Professional adds capacity, automation and reporting for a growing team. Business supports larger multi-location operations. Enterprise is scoped for custom governance and deployment needs.
02How does checkout work?
After registration and sign-in, an authorized billing owner chooses a plan and cadence. The server creates a Stripe Checkout Session; card details are entered on Stripe's hosted surface, not on Elarvio pages.
03Can I manage my subscription later?
When Stripe is configured, billing owners can open the Stripe customer portal from the dashboard for supported payment-method, invoice, and subscription actions.
04Are annual plans discounted?
The configured annual price includes two months compared with paying the listed monthly price for twelve months. Applicable taxes and approved provider or overage costs remain separate.
Security, privacy and abuse protection
Layered controls for identities, tenants, inputs, secrets, bots, and sensitive actions.
01How is company data separated?
Server-side membership and permission checks scope protected reads and writes to an organization. A company identifier sent by a browser is never sufficient authorization by itself.
02How are public forms protected from bots?
Sensitive public mutations use bounded payloads, same-origin checks, rate limits, honeypots where appropriate, and a short-lived signed proof-of-work challenge bound to the requesting client and accepted only once.
03Is the platform impossible to hack?
No responsible team can promise that. The platform uses defense in depth and should still receive continuous patching, monitoring, dependency review, external testing, incident response preparation, and production infrastructure hardening.
04Does the live chat collect secrets?
It explicitly instructs visitors not to share passwords, access tokens, card data, or sensitive customer information. Public chat history is limited and should be treated as a product-information channel.
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