<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>MonoChat UAE blog</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog</link><description>MonoChat UAE blog</description><language>en-AE</language><item><title>When a UAE customer stops your WhatsApp offers: what changes for your White Friday and DSF campaigns</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-marketing-stop-uae-campaigns</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-marketing-stop-uae-campaigns</guid><description>WhatsApp now lets people stop and resume a business’s marketing messages, Meta moves marketing templates to its Marketing Messages API, and a weak offer can pause your template mid-campaign. What each means for a UAE store this season, and what MonoChat does with it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Instagram and Messenger DMs in the sale season: the 24-hour window and the 7-day human agent window</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/instagram-messenger-7-day-human-agent-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/instagram-messenger-7-day-human-agent-uae</guid><description>White Friday and the Dubai Shopping Festival fill UAE inboxes with Instagram and Messenger questions. What Meta allows after 24 hours, why only a person may answer until day 7, and how MonoChat applies the rule for you.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Flag Day and Eid Al Etihad: plan your WhatsApp replies for the UAE’s national days</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/eid-al-etihad-holiday-whatsapp-hours-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/eid-al-etihad-holiday-whatsapp-hours-uae</guid><description>Flag Day on 3 November and the Eid Al Etihad holiday on 2 and 3 December change how UAE customers write to businesses. How to set holiday replies, reminders and respectful greetings in MonoChat, step by step.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tabby and Tamara on WhatsApp: sell in instalments from the chat</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/tabby-tamara-whatsapp-payment-links-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/tabby-tamara-whatsapp-payment-links-uae</guid><description>UAE customers often ask “Can I pay with Tabby?” before they buy. How to connect Tabby or Tamara to MonoChat, send a buy-now-pay-later checkout link in WhatsApp, continue the order once it is paid, and what to tell customers.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WhatsApp bulk messages in the UAE: send only to customers who opted in</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-bulk-messages-opt-in-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-bulk-messages-opt-in-uae</guid><description>How UAE businesses can run WhatsApp broadcasts that people asked for: collect the opt-in in a MonoChat flow, filter the bulk message to Opt-in Yes, handle STOP replies and keep the cost in AED under control.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Keep the WhatsApp Business app and add the API on the same number</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-business-app-api-same-number-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-business-app-api-same-number-uae</guid><description>Many UAE businesses do not want to give up the WhatsApp number their customers already know. How WhatsApp coexistence works, what changes on the phone, what it costs in AED, and how to connect it in MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Car rental in the UAE: take winter-season bookings on WhatsApp, from quote to return</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/car-rental-whatsapp-bookings-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/car-rental-whatsapp-bookings-uae</guid><description>Dubai welcomed a record 19.59 million visitors in 2025, and December is the busiest month. How a UAE rental company can quote real prices, collect licences and passports, and handle extensions and roadside problems on WhatsApp with MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The CBUAE WhatsApp circular: what merchants can still do in the chat, and where the payment must happen</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/cbuae-whatsapp-circular-merchants-checkout</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/cbuae-whatsapp-circular-merchants-checkout</guid><description>Since May 2026, UAE banks and payment firms may not handle transactions, OTPs or customer financial data on WhatsApp. What that means for shops and service businesses that sell in the chat, and how to build a chat-to-checkout journey in MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UAE e-invoicing: the deadlines, and what changes for the invoices you send on WhatsApp</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/uae-e-invoicing-deadlines-whatsapp-invoices</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/uae-e-invoicing-deadlines-whatsapp-invoices</guid><description>Businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more had to appoint an accredited e-invoicing provider by 30 October 2026 and go live on 1 January 2027; the rest follow in 2027. Why a PDF on WhatsApp is no longer the invoice, and how to keep the reminders and payment links in the chat.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SMS for OTPs and alerts in the UAE: what the 31 December Direct Model deadline means for your business</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/a2p-sms-direct-model-deadline-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/a2p-sms-direct-model-deadline-uae</guid><description>TDRA wants every business that sends A2P SMS (codes, alerts, order updates, offers) on the Direct Model by 31 December 2026. What to ask your provider, which messages can move to WhatsApp, and how MonoChat handles both.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ramadan 2027 on WhatsApp: a planning checklist for UAE businesses</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/ramadan-2027-whatsapp-checklist</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/ramadan-2027-whatsapp-checklist</guid><description>Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin on 8 February. A checklist for UAE retailers, restaurants and charities to prepare WhatsApp templates, opt-ins and replies in time.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marketing SMS in the UAE: a checklist from the TDRA policy</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/uae-sms-marketing-rules-checklist</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/uae-sms-marketing-rules-checklist</guid><description>Sending hours, AD- sender IDs, consent records and links: what the TDRA policy and Twilio’s UAE guidelines say about marketing SMS, and what MonoChat does.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WhatsApp Business API prices in the UAE, in AED</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-business-api-prices-uae-aed</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-business-api-prices-uae-aed</guid><description>What Meta charges per WhatsApp message to UAE numbers in AED, which messages are free, and how to estimate a month of messages with MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing the UAE as your WhatsApp data storage region</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-data-storage-region-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/whatsapp-data-storage-region-uae</guid><description>What WhatsApp local storage in the UAE covers and what it does not, why coexistence numbers cannot use it, and how to choose the region in MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Confirm cash-on-delivery orders on WhatsApp: a flow for UAE online stores</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/cash-on-delivery-whatsapp-confirmation-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/cash-on-delivery-whatsapp-confirmation-uae</guid><description>Before a courier sets out with a cash-on-delivery parcel, ask the customer on WhatsApp. How to build the confirmation as a MonoChat flow from your Shopify or WooCommerce order webhook.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dubai Fitness Challenge 2026: how a gym or studio turns 30 days of trials into members on WhatsApp</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/dubai-fitness-challenge-gyms-whatsapp</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/dubai-fitness-challenge-gyms-whatsapp</guid><description>From 31 October to 29 November, Dubai is asked to move 30 minutes a day. How UAE gyms and studios can take trial bookings on WhatsApp, fill classes, follow up and renew plans the Abu Dhabi way, with Studio Assistant in MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Property launch leads in the UAE: follow up on WhatsApp, not with a cold call</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/property-lead-ads-whatsapp-follow-up-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/property-lead-ads-whatsapp-follow-up-uae</guid><description>Telemarketing in the UAE now means calling hours, consent and the DNCR. How agencies can answer Facebook and Instagram lead forms on WhatsApp within minutes with MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>White Friday to DSF on WhatsApp: a campaign plan for UAE stores, 11 November to 17 January</title><link>https://monochat.ae/blog/white-friday-dsf-whatsapp-campaign-plan-uae</link><guid>https://monochat.ae/blog/white-friday-dsf-whatsapp-campaign-plan-uae</guid><description>Singles’ Day, White Friday on 27 November, Eid Al Etihad and the Dubai Shopping Festival fall within ten weeks. A dated WhatsApp plan for UAE stores, with the rules, the cost in AED and the steps in MonoChat.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>