Automation · Content and publishing
Create a Bitly short link and QR that open your WhatsApp, and measure how many clicks it brought
An AI agent creates with Bitly the short link and QR that open your WhatsApp for a promotion, and later counts its clicks by country and source.
How do I make a QR for my poster that opens my WhatsApp with a ready message and know how many people used it?
Someone on the team asks the Met, on the web platform, for a promotion's link. The Met checks which Bitly group it belongs in, builds the short link to your WhatsApp number's chat address with the promotion's opening message, creates its QR code and hands over the image ready for the poster or the post. Days later, the same person asks how it went and the Met checks the link's total clicks, which countries they came from and from which sites, and answers with those figures. The conversations the QR opens are handled by your line's Met.
What starts it
When someone asks for it
Someone on the team starts the task on the web platform with the promotion, the WhatsApp number and the opening message. Later they ask again for the click count of the same link.
A manual task: someone on the team runs it with a button, or asks the Met for it in chat.
Who runs it
Marketing Met that builds campaign pieces
Social team
This is not a named, seeded Met. It is the Met that supports the business's campaigns, with Bitly connected. Its work ends when the promotion has its link and its QR, and the team knows in figures how many clicks it brought.
What you need connected
- Bitly Create and promote
5 steps · 7 tools
The procedure, step by step
Each step shows the tool that runs. They belong to the real connector: if one of them stopped existing, this page would not build.
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Pick the Bitly group
The Met lists the groups in your Bitly account and uses the one the skill names, for example "Campaigns". That keeps promotion links together and easy to find later.
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Create the short link to your WhatsApp
The Met creates the short link to your number's chat address with the promotion's opening message. Whoever opens it lands in your WhatsApp with the text already written.
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Create the QR and hand over the image
The Met creates the link's QR code and hands over the image for the poster, the packaging or the post. The QR leads to the Bitly link, so it can be measured.
- 4
Count the clicks when asked
When the team member asks how the promotion went, the Met checks the link's click summary and answers with the total, without estimating it.
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See where they came from
The Met breaks the clicks down by country and by referring site. With that the team knows whether the poster, a post or a link shared on another page worked best.
Before you start
What you need ready
The Met solves none of these for you. If one is missing, the automation stops there.
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Bitly connected
In Met, open Connections → Bitly → Connect and authorize the account. The admin leaves link creation and QR code creation switched on.
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Your number and the promotion's message
The person asking for the link gives the business's WhatsApp number and the opening message, for example "I want the October promo". The skill says which Bitly group to use.
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A Met answering that WhatsApp line
The business has its WhatsApp Business API line connected with the Met that answers customers, to reply to the conversations the QR opens.
The limits
What this automation does NOT solve
Better said here than discovered halfway through the rollout.
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It does not count sales. Bitly measures clicks on the link; how many of those people bought is known by your CRM or your store, not by Bitly.
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It does not print or post the QR. It hands over the image; putting it on the poster or on your social media is another step.
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It does not ask for confirmation in the chat before creating the link or the QR: if the action is on, it creates them. The admin decides which actions stay on.
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It does not see people who wrote without using the link. If someone types your number by hand, that click is not in Bitly.
FAQ
Questions about this automation
Yes. The QR leads to the Bitly link, and the connector can change that link's destination. The same QR leads to the new address.
The Met answers with what Bitly reports for that link. If the same person opens the QR twice, Bitly decides how it counts it, not the Met.
Yes: ask for one link and one QR per location. That way the click count tells you which one worked best.
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