WhatsApp for accountants and solicitors, within the rules

WYP.chat gives your firm a shared WhatsApp number: each client is assigned to the person handling their matter, colleagues only see their own team’s conversations, and sensitive actions are logged. WhatsApp stays a practical channel, not a safe: confidential documents go through your secure system.

Your whole team, no seats to count. With 5 people, the Team plan costs €99 a month excl. VAT, the same as with one. You pay Meta directly for its messages, with no markup.

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Karen Price WhatsApp
Today
Hello, I’ve had a letter from the tax office about my company. Who can look at it? 09:05
Internal note · visible to the team only Anna: Mark handles this client, assigning the conversation to him. 09:07
Mark
Hello Karen, I’ll take care of it. Send me a photo of the letter and I’ll call you tomorrow morning. 09:20
Thanks, sending it now. 09:22

For firms: accountants, solicitors, tax advisers, consultancies.

What professional firms do with WYP.chat

Missing documents

A quick reply lists what is missing and where to upload it. If the client does not reply, a follow-up goes out after 24 hours.

Karen Lloyd WhatsApp
Today
We still need your December statements. Please upload them to your client portal.
Done, thanks.

The right contact

Clients always message the same number. The conversation goes to the person handling their matter, and a colleague picks it up during holidays.

Simon Price WhatsApp
Today
Hello, a quick question about my VAT return.
Claire handles your account, she will reply this morning.

A meeting at the office or by video

The “Meeting” button offers the adviser’s available slots from their Google Calendar, with a Meet link if the meeting is online.

Andrew Walsh WhatsApp
Today
Hello, could I book a meeting to go over my file?
Tuesday 9 am or Thursday 2 pm, at the office or by video?
Thursday 2 pm by video.
Meeting Confirmed Video consultation Thu 15 Oct · 2:00–2:45 pm Google Meet · link in the invitation Booked, here is the invitation.

A document ready

Let the client know the accounts or the draft are ready, without sending them in the chat: they stay in your secure system.

Fiona Reid WhatsApp
Today
Your accounts are ready to review in your client portal.
Great, I’ll look tonight.

Professional confidentiality: what the rules say

Confidentiality applies to WhatsApp as it does to the rest of the firm. The rules rarely name WhatsApp, but they cover every medium. Two examples from the EU:

This page is not professional or legal advice: check your own regulator’s or professional body’s guidance.

Everyone handling personal data
The GDPR requires appropriate security (Article 32) and a written agreement with every processor (Article 28), including your messaging software.
France, lawyers
The national rules of the bar (Article 2) extend professional secrecy to exchanges with clients on any medium, electronic included, and to client names and the lawyer’s diary.
Spain, lawyers
Article 5 of the 2019 Code of Conduct covers oral and written communications on any medium and bans recording conversations without warning and consent.

What WhatsApp is not, even with WYP.chat

WYP.chat uses Meta’s official API. Meta says so in its documentation: the message travels encrypted to the API, which then decrypts it and passes it to the business. So it is not end-to-end encryption between your client and the firm.

At Meta
Meta manages the keys on the business’s behalf, processes messages in its data centres and keeps them for 30 days at most. It acts as a processor.
At WYP.chat
Conversations in a database in Frankfurt, files in the European Union, encrypted tokens and separation between firms checked by automated tests.
For your clients
Mention the channel in your privacy notice, and offer another route to anyone who would rather not use WhatsApp.

What goes through WhatsApp, and what does not

WhatsApp is for the practical side: meetings, reminders, updates. The substance of the matter belongs in your secure system.

Keep out of WhatsApp

  • Litigation documents, draft pleadings and correspondence with other firms.
  • ID documents, bank or card numbers: WhatsApp’s policy forbids asking for them in the conversation.
  • Health data and details of a client’s family or financial situation.
  • Detailed advice spread over many messages: suggest a meeting instead.

What WhatsApp does well

  • Booking or moving a meeting, at the office or by video.
  • Reminding clients what is missing and where to upload it.
  • Letting them know a document is ready in your secure system.
  • Answering practical questions: opening hours, directions, how the first meeting works.

Which feature for which requirement?

WYP.chat gives you controls. Professional confidentiality and data protection remain your responsibility: the right-hand column says what is down to you.

What the firm needs What WYP.chat does What remains your job
Only those on the matter see the conversation Each person sees what is assigned to them and to their teams, nothing else Set up the teams and link each number to a team
Knowing who replied and who did what Author on every message, append-only audit log of sensitive actions Review the log (owner and admins)
Protecting logins Two-factor authentication mandatory for owners, admins and supervisors; passkeys Ask other staff to turn it on
Knowing where the data is Database in Frankfurt, files in the European Union; WhatsApp messages are processed by Meta Tell your clients which channel you use
A processor agreement WYP.chat acts as processor (GDPR Article 28); its privacy policy serves as the agreement Record it in your processing register
Erasing a client Permanent deletion of the contact, their messages and files Decide when to use it, given your retention duties
Exchanging confidential documents Attachments are possible, nothing requires them Use your secure system instead
WYP.chat privacy policy →
Team and Pro

Who sees which matter

By default, staff do not see the whole inbox: only what is assigned to them, their teams’ conversations and those of the numbers linked to their teams.

Security →
Teams and numbers
Link each number to a team (tax, payroll, a partner). A number with no team is visible to everyone: link it.
Roles
Owner, admin, supervisor, member and viewer, each with permissions checked by the server. Only the owner and admins export data and see the audit log.
Someone leaves
You remove their access; conversations stay with the firm, with the history, and move to a colleague. Their linked Google account is removed.

An AI agent for professional services

Never automated advice: Coucou answers from your FAQ and pages, hands over as soon as someone asks for a quote, an exact price or a person, and every reply is labelled “AI”. Keep its FAQ to practical questions.

Coucou, welcome AI agent

Coucou AI agent

Welcome · Available

Answers practical questions (opening hours, directions, documents to prepare) from your FAQ and pages, and hands over for any question about a case.

Créneau, appointments AI agent

Créneau AI agent

Appointments · Coming soon

Will offer appointment slots from your calendar, confirm them and handle rescheduling.

Agrafe, invoices AI agent

Agrafe AI agent

Invoices · Coming soon

Will send fee invoices and chase unpaid ones tactfully, after your approval.

Coucou and Allô are available today on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and your website chat, and Veilleur replies when you are closed, with your reopening time. The other agents are coming soon.

Every AI agent, mission by mission →

Get started in three steps

You keep the firm’s number, and the WhatsApp Business app can stay on the reception phone.

  1. 1 Create the firm’s workspace Email address and firm name, no card needed.
  2. 2 Connect the WhatsApp number With your Meta account, no developer needed. While Meta reviews WYP.chat, our team connects it with you.
  3. 3 Set up teams, invite your staff Link each number to a team before giving access.
Recommended plan

Team, €99 a month excl. VAT

Teams split the inbox by department or partner: they come with Team and Pro, along with 3 WhatsApp numbers, response times and unlimited users. A sole practitioner starts on Solo (€29).

See all pricing →

Questions from firms

Can a solicitor or accountant talk to clients on WhatsApp?

In most places, yes, as long as confidentiality rules are kept: they cover every medium. Keep WhatsApp for practical exchanges, use a secure channel for documents and advice, and control who can read the conversations. Check your professional body’s guidance if in doubt.

Are messages end-to-end encrypted?

Not with the Meta API that WYP.chat uses, like any software connected to WhatsApp through that API. The message is encrypted up to Meta, which decrypts it to pass it to the firm and keeps it for 30 days at most. At WYP.chat, data sits in a database in Frankfurt and files in the European Union.

Who at the firm can read a conversation?

The person it is assigned to, members of the relevant teams, those teams’ supervisors, the admins and the owner. A number not linked to any team is visible to everyone: link it.

Can AI answer my clients?

Yes, on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and your website chat, and only with what you give it: your FAQ, your pages and your documents. It hands over to the team for quotes, prices or a request to speak to someone. Do not give it tax or legal questions: no AI should advise in your name.

What happens when someone leaves the firm?

You remove their access and they can no longer see anything. Their conversations stay with the firm, with the full history, and you assign them to a colleague. That is not the case if they were replying from their personal WhatsApp.

How much does WYP.chat cost for a firm?

The Free plan covers 50 conversations a month. Solo costs €29 a month and Team, with the teams that split the inbox, €99, excl. VAT. Unlimited users on every plan.

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How to do it in WYP.chat

Help centre articles that walk through each setting, screen by screen.

Sources

  1. EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Articles 28 and 32: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679
  2. Meta, WhatsApp Business Platform, Data Privacy & Security: developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/data-privacy-and-security/
  3. WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business Messaging Policy: whatsappbusiness.com/policy/
  4. CNB (French bar), Règlement intérieur national, title one (Article 2): cnb.avocat.fr/rin/titre-premier-des-principes
  5. Spanish Bar Council, Código Deontológico (2019), Article 5: www.abogacia.es/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/C%C3%93DIGO-DEONTOL%C3%93GICO-2019-definitivo-OK-2.pdf

Texts and pages accessed on 10 October 2026.

Further reading

Every WhatsApp message to the firm reaches the person handling the file

While Meta reviews WYP.chat, our team connects your WhatsApp number with you.