Reservations and takeaway, one list
Hosts, cashier and manager answer the same number, each with their own login.
- Own login for each staff member
- Auto-assign in turn
- Away messages after closing
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
For restaurants, cafés and caterers · Ethiopia
Stop missing orders during the rush.Answer every reservation and takeaway from one inbox.EliteTeQ Inbox for restaurants, cafés, caterers and takeaways in Ethiopia
It’s 7pm, the floor is full, and the restaurant phone is buzzing with table requests and takeaway orders. Nobody can look at it until 10pm.
EliteTeQ Inbox lets your manager, hosts and takeaway desk answer reservations, orders and menu questions from WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook in one shared inbox. Event and catering enquiries are tracked to a deposit. Staff in Addis Ababa and Adama or anywhere else answer from one +251 business number, with office hours on Addis Ababa time (EAT).
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
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- Table reservations
- Takeaway and delivery orders
- Menu and price questions
- Events and catering
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- The ad this customer tapped
- Lead stage, one tap
- Internal comment, never sent
- Time left to reply
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Sound familiar? What restaurants teams in Ethiopia tell us
During service nobody can check the phone, and orders sit unanswered.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Anyone on shift answers from their own login. Waiting chats rise to the top and show how long the guest has waited.
Catering and party enquiries get a price and then nothing.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Event enquiries sit on a pipeline from enquiry to deposit, flagged hot when they are waiting for you.
People ask “are you open?” at midnight and we answer at noon.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Office hours per number send an away message the moment you are closed.
Every enquiry is a customer deciding where to spend. Don’t let yours wait.
One shared inbox for restaurants, cafés, caterers and takeaways in Ethiopia.
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 Ethiopia write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English, 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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- Table reservations
- Takeaway and delivery orders
- Menu and price questions
- Events and catering
What is a WhatsApp CRM for restaurants?
A WhatsApp CRM for restaurants is a shared inbox and lead pipeline for the messages restaurants, cafés, caterers and takeaways in Ethiopia 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, Menu or quote sent, Booked), and shows the owner who answered and how fast.
- One business number, many staff, each with their own login
- Every chat assigned to one person, with internal notes
- A pipeline named after your own steps
- Reports on reply speed, leads per day and ad sources
EliteTeQ Inbox at a glance
| 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 Ethiopia | +251 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Addis Ababa time (EAT) |
| Languages | Customers write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English |
| Setup | About 40 minutes, or done with you on WhatsApp |
| Last reviewed | 2026-11-01 |
How restaurants teams use EliteTeQ Inbox
Real screens from our demo workspace, with example data.
Events and catering tracked
Track private dining, parties and catering from enquiry to deposit.
- Stages you name yourself
- Hot leads flagged
- Filter by teammate
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Comments that ask for the menu
Instagram and Facebook comments next to your chats, with automatic replies for “menu” or “price”.
- Comments with the post
- Keyword auto-replies
- Public or private reply
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
A pipeline for restaurants
An example you can set up in Settings → Pipeline stages and rename any time.
- Enquiry
- Menu or quote sent
- Booked
- Deposit paid
- Done
- Lost
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No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
Get your team answering in a day
No installation and no long training.
Create your account
Register with your email. The 7-day trial opens every feature, no card needed.
Connect your channels
Link your Facebook Page and Instagram. We connect your +251 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Addis Ababa time (EAT), in about 40 minutes.
Invite your team
Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Addis Ababa and Adama or from home.
Set up your pipeline
Name the stages after how you work, for example: Enquiry → Menu or quote sent → Booked → Deposit paid.
Start answering
Assign chats, follow up hot leads and watch the reports.
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No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
More than a shared inbox. A better way to manage your customer relationships.
A shared inbox helps your team see messages. EliteTeQ goes further, connecting every conversation to lead management, team coordination and sales visibility.
- Designed for teams
- Employees work with their own logins, roles and responsibilities.
- Conversations connected to customers
- Every message sits with the customer’s history and their stage on your pipeline, not as an isolated chat.
- Visibility for management
- See how your team handles enquiries, how fast they reply and where follow-ups are needed.
- Grows with your business
- Start with a small team, then add people, numbers and a bigger plan as you grow.
- Easy to get started
- Register online, explore every feature on the free trial, and set up your workspace without waiting for a salesperson.
Simple pricing. No complicated contracts.
The same plans for every industry in Ethiopia, 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.
Try Growth free for 7 daysNo card needed · you choose the plan when you pay
Phones and personal chats vs EliteTeQ Inbox
The difference is that every enquiry has an owner and nothing depends on one phone, whether your team is in Addis Ababa and Adama 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 in Ethiopia
EliteTeQ Inbox works for restaurants, cafés, caterers and takeaways in Ethiopia on your existing +251 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Addis Ababa and Adama or anywhere else.
In Ethiopia, many customers also use Telegram, which EliteTeQ Inbox does not connect to yet. For businesses in Addis Ababa and beyond that sell on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, it puts those chats in one list the whole team shares.
Customers in Ethiopia write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya and English. Your team replies in the customer’s language inside the 24-hour window; template messages can currently be created in English.
Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Addis Ababa: 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.
Selling on WhatsApp in Ethiopia
Customers in Ethiopia pay with telebirr, CBE Birr, M-Pesa, cards and bank transfers, so when a sale closes on WhatsApp the customer may confirm payment in the chat, and your team needs to see that message quickly.
Hawassa
Sidama Region · a lakeside city with a major industrial park
Hawassa combines a lakeside leisure and hospitality trade with a large industrial park, which gives it two distinct customer bases: weekend and holiday visitors, and a substantial wage-earning workforce with regular pay cycles. That makes demand more predictable than in agricultural towns, and rewards systems that handle both fast table service and everyday convenience retail. The industrial park provides a large wage-earning workforce on regular pay cycles while the lakeside draws weekend visitors — two predictable but unrelated demand curves. Booking requests from Hawassa reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa · Ethiopia's capital and the seat of the African Union
Addis Ababa concentrates Ethiopia's formal retail, hospitality and institutional trade, with a large diplomatic and international-organisation presence alongside the vast Merkato trading area. Mobile money use is growing quickly alongside cash. Merkato trades at enormous scale while the diplomatic and international-organisation districts carry a quite different basket, and both sit in one city. Booking requests from Addis Ababa reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Dire Dawa
Dire Dawa · an eastern trade and rail city
Dire Dawa is a commercial city on the rail corridor toward Djibouti, which makes import and transit trade a large share of its activity and ties restocking to freight schedules. Cash dominates settlement, with cross-border influence on pricing from the Djibouti corridor. The rail corridor toward Djibouti makes import and transit trade central, tying restocking to freight rather than local demand. Booking requests from Dire Dawa reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
EliteTeQ Inbox in every city of Ethiopia
- Addis AbabaAddis Ababa · Ethiopia's capital and the seat of the African Union
- Dire DawaDire Dawa · an eastern trade and rail city
- AdamaOromia Region · a commercial town on the central industrial corridor
- HawassaSidama Region · a lakeside city with a major industrial park
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Questions businesses ask us
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Ask a humanIs there a WhatsApp CRM for restaurants in Ethiopia?
Yes. Restaurants teams in Ethiopia use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +251 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Addis Ababa, Adama or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English, and office hours run on Addis Ababa time (EAT). Plans start at $29 a month with a 7-day free trial.
Does it send orders to the kitchen?
No. EliteTeQ Inbox handles the conversation; orders go to the kitchen the way they do today. EliteTeQ POS has a kitchen display if you need one.
Can it take payment for orders?
No. Share your usual payment details in the chat and mark the order as paid on the pipeline.
Can we answer from a tablet at the host stand?
Yes. It runs in any browser and installs on Android and iPhone.
Can several staff use the same WhatsApp number?
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.
How much does it cost?
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.
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Every restaurants enquiry is an opportunity. Don’t let yours get lost in Ethiopia.
Bring your channels, your team and every customer conversation into one organised workspace.
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