Follow the technical delivery status of a whatsapp message
An Operator sees a sent message's status progress from Sent to Delivered to Read, live, as Meta's status webhooks arrive.
When this happens: Meta delivers a statuses[] webhook entry for the message.
Step by step
- 1
Sees the delivery tick change from single to double in the Inbox, without refreshing.
Delivers a
deliveredstatus webhook for the message. EasyCRM matches it byProviderMessageId, setsDelivered, and pushes the update to the conversation's SignalR group. Later delivers areadstatus webhook. SetsRead; the tick turns blue.
If something goes wrong
Out-of-order status
A delivered status arrives after a read status already applied (network reordering). The later, higher status is not regressed — Read is kept.
Good to know
- Status only ever advances
Sent — Delivered — Read, or moves to the terminalFailed; it never regresses.