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Everything you need to know about running your business through Favion — from WhatsApp automation and payments to setup, security, integrations and supported industries.

About Favion

Favion is a platform that lets a business run its day-to-day operations — bookings, payments, inventory, staff coordination, and reporting — entirely through a single WhatsApp conversation, powered by AI trained on that business's own real data.

Customer-facing businesses that currently juggle several disconnected tools to run day to day — clinics, retail shops, logistics and courier companies, schools, SACCOs, real estate agencies, and travel businesses. It's particularly suited to markets where WhatsApp is already how customers naturally reach a business.

Most small and mid-sized businesses run on a patchwork of separate tools — a booking system, a payment processor, a spreadsheet for stock, a group chat for staff — none of which talk to each other. That means double bookings, manual reconciliation, missed messages, and hours of admin every week. Favion replaces that whole patchwork with one AI-powered conversation that handles it end to end.

Traditional software asks customers to download an app and create an account, and asks staff to learn a separate dashboard for every function. Favion works entirely through WhatsApp — an app customers already have open — and it's built around each specific business rather than a rigid template, so it reflects how that business actually operates.

WhatsApp

Yes, on the customer-facing side — every booking, order, question, and payment prompt happens inside a normal WhatsApp conversation. The business owner also gets a private dashboard for oversight, billing, and reporting.

No. If they already have WhatsApp, there's nothing new to install or learn.

Yes — that's the core of how Favion works. Customers message the business's WhatsApp number directly to ask questions, check availability, place orders, book appointments, track shipments, or pay.

Yes. Staff can send specific commands through WhatsApp for operational tasks (like updating a shipment's status or checking today's sales), and business owners get a dashboard inbox to view conversations and take over personally whenever needed.

Yes — Favion connects to a business's official WhatsApp Business number through Meta's Business API, the same official channel WhatsApp Business itself runs on.

Business operations

Bookings and scheduling, payments and billing, inventory and order tracking, staff task coordination, and financial and operational reporting — all through natural conversation, without manual data entry.

Yes — appointment scheduling and checking real-time availability, tailored to the business (clinic appointments, property viewings, tour bookings, and similar).

Yes, via M-Pesa — with STK push prompts sent directly in the WhatsApp conversation and automatic payment confirmation.

Yes — real-time stock tracking and low-stock alerts, reflected live in customer conversations so nothing out of stock is ever confidently offered.

Yes — staff can check reports and update statuses via WhatsApp commands, and business owners get role-based access and an activity trail through the dashboard.

Yes — real-time dashboards plus downloadable PDF reports (profit and loss, sales, outstanding balances, and more) generated on demand.

Setup

Typically a few days from signing up to going live, depending on how much business-specific information needs to be added.

No. Setup is guided by the Favion team, and day-to-day use requires no technical skill from the business owner, their staff, or their customers.

Yes — the Favion team walks each business through setup and configuration directly.

Yes — this is central to how Favion works. Beyond the initial setup, a business's specific rules, tone, and behaviour can be tailored to exactly how it operates, rather than being locked to a fixed template.

Their WhatsApp number is connected, their real business information (services, pricing, policies) is loaded in, and the AI is configured and tested before going live for real customers.

Security & data

On Favion's own secure infrastructure, with each business's data kept completely separate from every other business on the platform.

The business does. Favion hosts and processes it on the business's behalf, but ownership stays with them.

Yes — each business's conversations and data are fully isolated from every other business on the platform. There is no cross-business visibility.

No — a business's data is used only to power that business's own AI assistant, not to train any public or shared model.

Password-protected dashboards, role-based access for staff, and secure session handling — a business's login only ever shows that business's own data.

Integrations

Core integrations today are WhatsApp, Google Calendar, and M-Pesa. Favion isn't built on rigid templates — it's designed to connect to whatever a business already runs, with new integrations added as businesses need them.

Yes — Favion is designed to work alongside a business's existing tools rather than force a full replacement, and can be extended to connect to additional systems on request.

Yes — M-Pesa is fully integrated today, including STK push and automatic payment confirmation.

Yes — Favion's architecture is built to be extended, so additional integrations can be added as a specific business needs them.

Industries

Healthcare, retail, logistics, education, finance/SACCOs, real estate, and travel — with more added as new businesses come on board.

Yes — appointment booking, doctor availability, and patient scheduling, with sensitive handling of health-related conversations.

Yes — shipment booking, route pricing, parcel tracking, and delivery payment collection.

Yes — live stock checking, order taking, and payment collection, all through conversation.

Yes — answering fee and admissions questions from real school-provided information, and routing specific account queries (like fee balances) to staff for verification.

Yes — answering questions about savings and loan products from real SACCO-provided information, with account-specific details like balances always routed to staff for verification, never guessed.

Yes — sharing real, current listings, and booking property viewings.

Yes — sharing room and tour availability, pricing, and handling bookings and payment.

Pricing & getting started

Pricing is set individually for each business based on its specific needs and scale — there's no fixed package. Get in touch for a quote tailored to your business.

Yes — there's a live, interactive WhatsApp demo anyone can try right now, no signup required.

Reach out via WhatsApp and the Favion team will walk you through setup from there.

Yes — directly via WhatsApp.

Via WhatsApp, or through the contact details on favion.net.

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