Building Your First WhatsApp Chatbot

n8n template #2465

Summary

This n8n template builds a simple WhatsApp chabot acting as a Sales Agent. The Agent is backed by a product catalog vector store to better answer user's questions. This template is intended to help introduce n8n users interested in building with WhatsApp. How it works This template is in 2 parts: creating the product catalog vector store and building the WhatsApp AI chatbot. A product brochure is imported via HTTP request node and its text contents extracted. The text contents are then uploaded to the in-memory vector store to build a knowledgebase for the chatbot. A WhatsApp trigger is used to capture messages from customers where non-text messages are filtered out. The customer's message i

How to set it up

Open template #2465 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 3 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: WhatsApp Business Cloud, Embeddings OpenAI, OpenAI Chat Model. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the AI Agent node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "Building Your First WhatsApp Chatbot" (https://n8n.io/workflows/2465). It uses: HTTP Request, WhatsApp Business Cloud, AI Agent, Embeddings OpenAI, OpenAI Chat Model, Simple Memory, Recursive Character Text Splitter, Simple Vector Store, Default Data Loader, Vector Store Question Answer Tool. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

HTTP Request WhatsApp Business Cloud AI Agent Embeddings OpenAI OpenAI Chat Model Simple Memory Recursive Character Text Splitter Simple Vector Store Default Data Loader Vector Store Question Answer Tool

Questions

Yes. Jimleuk published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 332K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

WhatsApp Business Cloud, Embeddings OpenAI, OpenAI Chat Model. The other 7 nodes are built into n8n.

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