For hotels, lodges and guest houses · South Africa
A guest asks about a room for the weekend at 11pm. Reception is checking someone in, the night shift doesn’t have the sales phone, and by morning the guest has booked elsewhere.
EliteTeQ Inbox lets reception, reservations, events and the restaurant answer guests from one shared inbox. Every booking enquiry has an owner, waiting guests rise to the top, and conference or wedding enquiries are tracked to a deposit. Staff in Johannesburg and Cape Town or anywhere else answer from one +27 business number, with office hours on Johannesburg time (SAST).
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The reservations phone stays with one person. Night shift can’t see the messages.
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Everyone on shift answers the same number from their own login, on a computer at the desk or on a phone.
We quoted a conference package and never followed up.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Event enquiries sit on a pipeline from enquiry to deposit, and the ones waiting for you are flagged hot.
Guests ask the same questions in Instagram comments every day.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Comments arrive next to your chats, and automatic replies answer keywords like “price” or “location”.
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 South Africa write in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu, 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 hotels is a shared inbox and lead pipeline for the messages hotels, lodges, guest houses and serviced apartments in South Africa 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, Rate sent, Provisional booking), 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 South Africa | +27 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Johannesburg time (SAST) |
| Languages | Customers write in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu |
| Setup | About 40 minutes, or done with you on WhatsApp |
| Last reviewed | 2026-11-01 |
Real screens from our demo workspace, with example data.
Give each department its own number and team, or one number with chats passed between desks.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Track weddings, conferences and group bookings from enquiry to deposit, filtered by the person handling them.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Reports show enquiries per day, first-reply times and the busiest hours, so you can staff the desk.
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 +27 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Johannesburg time (SAST), in about 40 minutes.
Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Johannesburg and Cape Town or from home.
Name the stages after how you work, for example: Enquiry → Rate sent → Provisional booking → Deposit paid.
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 South Africa, 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 Johannesburg and Cape Town 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 hotels, lodges, guest houses and serviced apartments in South Africa on your existing +27 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Johannesburg and Cape Town or anywhere else.
South African customers expect a business to answer on WhatsApp the way they message friends. When enquiries come into a branch phone and a manager’s phone, nobody knows who already replied. One shared inbox gives every chat a clear owner.
Customers write in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and other languages. Your team replies in the customer’s language inside the 24-hour window; template messages are created in English.
Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Johannesburg or Cape Town: 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.
Customers in South Africa pay with cards, contactless, EFT, and popular local payment methods, so when a sale closes on WhatsApp the customer may confirm payment in the chat, and your team needs to see that message quickly.
KwaZulu-Natal Province · the busiest port in sub-Saharan Africa
Durban's economy is built on its port and the import and distribution trade that flows through it, which gives wholesale and business-to-business supply a larger share of local commerce than in Cape Town. Domestic holiday seasons produce sharp coastal hospitality peaks. The port drives import and distribution trade year-round while the beachfront fills during domestic holiday periods. Booking requests from Durban reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Gauteng Province · South Africa's administrative capital
Pretoria's trade is anchored by government, diplomatic and university activity, giving it steadier weekday demand and a less seasonal pattern than the coastal cities. Card payment dominates and corporate account billing is more common here than in purely retail markets. Government, diplomatic and university activity give dependable weekday demand and a quieter weekend than the coastal cities, with more corporate account billing. Booking requests from Pretoria reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Eastern Cape Province · a port city and centre of vehicle manufacturing
Gqeberha's commerce is tied to vehicle manufacturing and its port, which gives it a substantial wage-earning workforce with regular pay cycles and therefore more predictable retail demand than tourism-led cities. Businesses supplying industry need invoicing and credit accounts alongside walk-in sales. Card payment is standard and grid interruptions apply as nationally. Booking requests from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Free State Province · South Africa's judicial capital and a regional service centre
Bloemfontein serves as the commercial and service centre for a large farming province, so its trade mixes urban retail with agricultural supply and has a demand pattern influenced by the crop and livestock calendar. Judicial and university activity provide a steady weekday base. The city serves a large farming province, so agricultural supply sits beside urban retail and demand tracks the crop and livestock calendar. Booking requests from Bloemfontein reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
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Ask a humanYes. Hotels teams in South Africa use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +27 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Johannesburg, Cape Town or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu, and office hours run on Johannesburg time (SAST). Plans start at $29 a month with a 7-day free trial.
No. EliteTeQ Inbox doesn’t manage room inventory. Your team confirms bookings in your own system and tracks the guest conversation in the inbox.
Yes. Connect several WhatsApp Business numbers in one workspace, each with its own team.
Yes. Customers write in any language and your team replies in the same chat. There is no automatic translation.
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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