How to set up CARE in 10 steps

CARE sign-up is fully self-serve. No sales call, no waiting list.

1. Visit the CARE sign-up page from panel.thamragroup.com.
2. Enter your business name, industry, email, password, and contact phone number.
3. Choose your industry — Medical, Engineering / Automotive, Salon / Reservation, Restaurant / Travel, or Equipment & Service. This selects the right starter templates for your agent's persona and FAQ structure.
4. Submit. CARE creates your tenant workspace, a default agent configuration, and signs you in. You're dropped straight into the onboarding wizard.

CARE sends a verification link to the email you signed up with. Click it to confirm ownership.

• The link is valid for 24 hours. If it expires, the dashboard offers a "Resend verification" button.
• You can keep configuring your agent in the meantime — verification only gates going live in Step 10.
• Check spam if you don't see it within a minute. The sender domain is thamragroup.com.

This is the only step that touches Meta directly. CARE uses Meta's Embedded Signup flow — a popup hosted by Meta where you log into Facebook, pick the WhatsApp Business Account and phone number to connect, and approve the permissions. CARE never asks for your password or system user token.

1. From the onboarding wizard, click Connect WhatsApp.
2. A Meta popup opens. Log in with the Facebook account that owns the Meta Business Account.
3. Choose the WhatsApp Business Account (WABA) and the phone number you want CARE to operate.
4. Review and grant the requested permissions (manage messages, manage business assets).
5. Meta closes the popup and hands CARE a permanent token. CARE then subscribes your number to webhooks so it receives every inbound message in real time.

This is where CARE becomes your agent. Every field below is editable later in Settings → Agent.

Identity

• Agent name (English) and Agent name (Arabic). Pick a short, brandable name — many businesses use their own brand (e.g. "Layla from Dr. Majd Dental"). CARE will introduce the agent by this name in greetings.
• Greeting message for new conversations and farewell message for ended conversations. Both can be bilingual.

Tone & language

• Response style: professional, friendly, casual, or formal. Shapes phrasing, sentence length, and emoji usage.
• Dialect preference: auto (recommended), gulf, levantine, egyptian, maghrebi, or msa.
• Enable emoji: on/off. Many clinics prefer off; restaurants and salons usually keep it on.

Boundaries

• Operating hours: per-weekday schedule with a timezone. Outside hours, CARE can keep replying or send an after-hours message — your choice.
• Maximum response length on WhatsApp (default 1,200 characters).
• Booking call-to-action: proactively offer a booking when relevant.
• Follow-up nudges: gentle reminders to customers who stop replying mid-conversation.

CARE's answer quality is bounded by the knowledge you give it. You have three complementary ways to add knowledge — use all three for the best coverage.

Option A — In-app editor

• FAQs — bilingual question/answer pairs.
• Services — what you offer, prices, duration, prerequisites.
• Staff / practitioners — names, specialties, photos.
• Menu items — for restaurants and cafés.

Option B — File upload

Supported: PDF, DOCX, TXT, CSV, JSON. CARE extracts text, splits into chunks, generates embeddings, and indexes everything for semantic search. Status moves pending → processing → ready in seconds for small files.

Option C — Connected sources (live sync)

• Google Sheets — connect a sheet, choose tabs, pick a sync interval between 15 and 1,440 minutes.
• REST API — point CARE at any JSON endpoint. Supports API-key, Bearer, Basic, OAuth2, and custom-header auth. Credentials are stored encrypted.

Skip if you don't take appointments. Otherwise, this is what turns CARE from an FAQ bot into a real booking assistant.

1. Open Settings → Calendar.
2. Connect Google Calendar — authorize CARE to read and write events. Real events get created for every booking.
3. Set slot duration (default 30 min) and buffer time (default 10 min).
4. Set working hours (default 09:00–21:00) and working days (default all seven).
5. Set maximum days in advance a customer can book (default 30).
6. Add special periods — Ramadan hours, Eid closures, public holidays.
7. Enable appointment reminders (commonly 24h and 1h before).
8. Optionally enable the cancellation waitlist.

CARE supports multiple users per business. Two roles cover most cases:

• Owner — everything: settings, knowledge, conversations, billing, team management.
• Viewer — read-only access to conversations and analytics. Cannot change settings or billing.

From Settings → Team, click Invite member, enter their email, and choose the role. CARE sends them a password-setup link.

CARE handles most conversations end-to-end, but some need a human. Configure how you want to be alerted.

• Escalation SMS number — gets a text when an escalation is opened.
• Escalation rate threshold — notified if escalations exceed a percentage you set.
• Quiet hours — suppress notifications during a window you choose (e.g. 22:00–06:00).
• Webhook URL — optional. POST escalation events into Slack, a ticketing system, or your own backend.

CARE escalates automatically on low confidence, repeated negative sentiment, explicit human request, repeated failed actions, an unanswered knowledge gap, or too many turns without resolution.

Before you tell customers about the number, send messages yourself and pressure-test the agent.

1. From the WhatsApp settings card, click Send test message — sanity-checks the token and webhook subscription.
2. Open WhatsApp on a personal phone and message your business number with a real customer-style question — try both English and Arabic.
3. Watch the conversation appear in Dashboard → Conversations in real time. Click in to see intent, retrieved knowledge chunks, and confidence score.
4. Try edge cases on purpose: misspellings, mixed Arabic/English, a complaint, a question CARE shouldn't be able to answer.
5. If something's wrong, fix the knowledge base or agent settings and try again. Iterate until you're happy.

Once the trial is going well, switch to paid. Pricing is pure usage — no platform fee, no minimum monthly commitment.

• One-time activation fee: 299 QAR.
• From then on, you pay per conversation at graduated tiers (each tier fills up before the next applies):

How billing runs

• Invoices generated automatically on the 1st of each month for the previous month's usage.
• Due on the 10th of the month.
• Unpaid invoices past due trigger automatic suspension at 9 AM UTC. Settle and CARE reactivates.
• You can set a conversation limit or spending limit as a hard cap.

Full terms: CARE Service Terms · Billing & Refunds.