For schools, colleges and training centres · China
During admissions season the school WhatsApp never stops: fees, transport, the intake date, the uniform. One person answers it, parents wait days, and some enrol elsewhere.
EliteTeQ Inbox lets your admissions office, accounts and front desk answer parents and students from one shared inbox. Every applicant is tracked from first question to enrolment, and you can see which enquiries are still waiting. Staff in Guangzhou and Shenzhen or anywhere else answer from one +86 business number, with office hours on Beijing time (CST).
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One admissions phone, hundreds of parents in January. Half the questions are the same.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Several staff answer the same school number from their own logins. Waiting chats rise to the top so nobody is missed.
Parents asked about fees, then went quiet. Nobody followed up before the term started.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Each applicant sits on an admissions pipeline: enquiry, visit, application, enrolled. The ones waiting for you are flagged.
Accounts and admissions both answered the same parent, with different fee amounts.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Each chat has one owner. Pass a fee question to accounts with an internal note the parent never sees.
Every enquiry is a customer deciding where to spend. Don’t let yours wait.
EliteTeQ Inbox is a customer conversation and CRM platform. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and comments land in one workspace your whole team answers from.
Customers in China write in English, French and Arabic (overseas buyers), and your team replies in the same chat. Every enquiry below gets an owner, a stage and a follow-up:
Less switching between phones. More enquiries turned into customers.
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A WhatsApp CRM for schools & education is a shared inbox and lead pipeline for the messages schools, colleges, training centres and tutors in China get every day. EliteTeQ Inbox connects your WhatsApp Business number, Facebook Page and Instagram account, lets several staff answer from their own logins, puts every customer on a pipeline (for example Enquiry, Visit or open day, Application received), and shows the owner who answered and how fast.
| Product | EliteTeQ Inbox, by EliteTeQ Softwares Limited (Nairobi, Kenya) |
|---|---|
| What it is | A WhatsApp team inbox and CRM |
| Channels | WhatsApp Business (official Cloud API, works alongside the WhatsApp Business app), Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, Facebook and Instagram comments |
| Works on | Any browser; installs on Android and iPhone |
| Price | From $29 a month; $59 Growth; $99 Business with unlimited people; a year costs 10 months |
| Free trial | 7 days, every feature open |
| WhatsApp numbers | 1 to 3 included by plan; up to 20 per business (Meta’s limit once the business is verified with Meta) |
| In China | +86 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Beijing time (CST) |
| Languages | Customers write in English, French and Arabic (overseas buyers) |
| Setup | About 40 minutes, or done with you on WhatsApp |
| Last reviewed | 2026-11-01 |
Real screens from our demo workspace, with example data.
Your admissions team, accounts and front desk share the school number. Auto-assign shares new enquiries out in turn, so no one person drowns.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Track each family from first question to enrolment. Filter by programme or intake with categories, and see who still needs a reply.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
See enquiries per day, how fast your team replies, the busiest hours, and which ads bring applicants.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
An example you can set up in Settings → Pipeline stages and rename any time.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
No installation and no long training.
Register with your email. The 7-day trial opens every feature, no card needed.
Link your Facebook Page and Instagram. We connect your +86 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Beijing time (CST), in about 40 minutes.
Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Guangzhou and Shenzhen or from home.
Name the stages after how you work, for example: Enquiry → Visit or open day → Application received → Offer sent.
Assign chats, follow up hot leads and watch the reports.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
A shared inbox helps your team see messages. EliteTeQ goes further, connecting every conversation to lead management, team coordination and sales visibility.
The same plans for every industry in China, in US dollars: Starter $29, Growth $59, Business $99 a month. Paying yearly costs 10 months. 7-day free trial, no credit card. Meta’s WhatsApp charges, where they apply, are separate.
The difference is that every enquiry has an owner and nothing depends on one phone, whether your team is in Guangzhou and Shenzhen or at home.
| Phones and personal chats | EliteTeQ Inbox |
|---|---|
| Whoever holds the phone answers | Every staff member answers from their own login |
| Two people reply to the same customer | Each chat is assigned to one person |
| Quotes and follow-ups forgotten | Waiting chats and hot leads are flagged |
| Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp on different devices | Every channel in the same list |
| No idea how fast customers get an answer | Reply speed and leads per person in reports |
EliteTeQ Inbox works for schools, colleges, training centres and tutors in China on your existing +86 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Guangzhou and Shenzhen or anywhere else.
WhatsApp isn’t used for domestic business in mainland China, where customers use WeChat. EliteTeQ Inbox is for Chinese exporters and trading companies whose overseas buyers in Africa and the Middle East message them on WhatsApp, so the whole sales team can follow every buyer.
Overseas buyers write in English, French, Arabic, Swahili and more. Your sales team replies in the buyer’s language; template messages can be created in English, French or Swahili.
Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Shenzhen or Guangzhou: weekdays open, Saturday mornings open, Sunday closed. Anyone who writes while you are closed gets your away message, at most once every 12 hours, and the chat waits at the top of the list for the morning.
Guangzhou and Shenzhen carry wholesale and trade-fair volume; Beijing and Shanghai carry retail.
Sichuan Province · the capital of Sichuan and western China's largest consumer market
A large food and leisure economy and dense mall retail sit alongside each other, and customers scan to pay almost every time. Chengdu is western China's main commercial centre, with a large food, tea-house and leisure economy and dense mall retail. Customers pay by scanning QR wallets almost by default, and invoicing runs through the state fapiao system. Booking requests from Chengdu reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Shanghai Municipality · China's largest commercial and financial centre
Simplified Chinese product naming and receipting are baseline requirements. Booking requests from Shanghai reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Beijing Municipality · China's capital and a major commercial centre
Government and institutional activity sit alongside a large modern retail and restaurant sector serving a domestic customer base. Corporate customers routinely request official invoices for expenses. Beijing combines government and institutional activity with a large modern retail and restaurant sector serving a domestic customer base. Booking requests from Beijing reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
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Ask a humanYes. Schools & education teams in China use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +86 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Guangzhou, Shenzhen or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in English, French and Arabic (overseas buyers), and office hours run on Beijing time (CST). Plans start at $29 a month with a 7-day free trial.
No. EliteTeQ Inbox doesn’t send broadcasts. You can send an approved WhatsApp template to a parent who agreed to hear from you, one by one. For school-wide announcements, keep using your existing channel.
Yes. Connect several WhatsApp Business numbers in one workspace and give each its own team, or keep one number and pass chats between departments.
Photos and files sent on WhatsApp show in the chat, and anyone on your team with access can see them. Decide which documents you accept over chat, and keep sensitive records in your school system.
Yes. Everyone signs in with their own login, on a computer or phone, and each chat is assigned to one person. The WhatsApp Business app on your phone can stay connected.
Starter is $29 a month for 1 WhatsApp number and 3 people, Growth $59 for 2 numbers and 6 people, and Business $99 for 3 numbers and unlimited people. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
WhatsApp rules on this page, from Meta:WhatsApp Business Platform pricing (Meta)Messaging limits (Meta)Message templates (Meta)Business phone numbers and limits (Meta)About the WhatsApp Business Platform (Meta)
Bring your channels, your team and every customer conversation into one organised workspace.
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