WhatsApp Sharing
Let participants send your promotion straight to their contacts and groups — the highest-intent share destination Tokei offers.
What This Is
WhatsApp is a sharing destination, not a standalone entry action. There is nothing to add from the Entry Methods tab — you enable WhatsApp in the Social Sharing group and participants earn the Social Share entry by sending your link on.
It is the most personal of the share destinations: a link arrives from someone the recipient actually knows, rather than in a public feed. That makes it the best converting share for local, community and word-of-mouth campaigns, even though it produces no public post you can measure.
Enabling WhatsApp Sharing
WhatsApp sharing is a toggle in the Promotion tab of the promotion editor.
Quick Start
- Open the Promotion tab in your promotion editor
- Find the Social Sharing group
- Switch on WhatsApp
- Set the entry value for Social Share
- Test on a phone — WhatsApp sharing is overwhelmingly a mobile behaviour
Tip: on desktop the WhatsApp share opens WhatsApp Web, which needs the participant to be logged in there. Always sanity-check this one on a real phone.
How Sharing Works
All sharing buttons post the same link: your promotion's own URL, or your campaign URL when you have set one and switched it on. The share opens in a new window with the destination pre-filled where the platform supports it.
Sharing is trust-based and awards points once. No platform lets a third party confirm that a share actually went out, so the entry is credited when the participant completes the hand-off.
Note: sharing is a single Social Share action with per-platform toggles, not one action per platform. Turning on more platforms gives participants more ways to share the same link — it does not multiply the points on offer.
Tips
- Expect most WhatsApp shares on mobile — check your page looks right at phone width
- Keep your promotion title short so it is readable in a chat preview
- Excellent for local, community, school and family-and-friends campaigns
- Pair with Referrals so a shared link still credits the person who sent it
Availability
Available on Contest, Gamify and Promote pages. On a Landing page, sharing only appears once the visitor has signed up.
Telegram Sharing
Reach Telegram groups and channels.
Full documentation index: tokei.io/llms.txt