A guest steps out of the booth, types their number on the screen, and the photo is on their phone before they are back with the rest of the room. No app, no email address spelled out letter by letter, no waiting until the morning after.
What the guest actually does
They tap their number into the keypad on the booth screen, and that is the whole of it. The photo itself arrives in their WhatsApp.
The difference is worth being precise about, because plenty of software will tell you it does WhatsApp. What a guest usually has to do is receive a verification code, type it back somewhere, and wait for the photo to be released. Booth Junkie sends the image itself, straight away. There is no code to wait for, no second website to visit, and nothing to install.
That is possible because Booth Junkie sends over the official WhatsApp Business Platform, under its own agreement with Meta, rather than routing through a third-party gateway.
It works at venues with no wifi
This is the part operators tend not to expect, and it matters more than the rest.
WhatsApp delivery does not need a connection at the event. Every share — WhatsApp, SMS, email, the online gallery, FTP and the cloud drives — goes into the Upload Queue rather than being sent there and then. If the booth is online it goes immediately. If it is not, it waits.
So you can run an entire evening in a marquee, a basement or a listed building with no signal at all, put the booth back online the following day, and every photo sends itself. Failed sends retry automatically, backing off between attempts, and anything that genuinely could not be delivered is listed with the real reason from the server rather than a generic error. A mistyped number can be corrected and sent again.
Quoting for a venue with no wifi stops being a risk.
What it costs
WhatsApp and SMS delivery are part of Premium, and every Booth Junkie licence includes twelve months of Premium from the day you buy it. Neither is charged per message, so a busy stand does not turn into a bill at the end of the month.
When those twelve months end the software carries on working. The delivery features pause until you renew, and you can renew whenever you need to rather than on a schedule. A licence lasts the lifetime of the machine.
Turning it on
WhatsApp sharing is switched on in the Sharing tab of the Admin Panel, alongside the other delivery options. The message your guests receive is yours to write rather than a fixed string, and you can show a consent notice before anything is sent if you would rather ask first.
What else goes out with it
WhatsApp is rarely the only route an operator wants, and the rest are configured in the same place:
- SMS straight to the phone, also unmetered.
- Email, through Booth Junkie or your own SMTP server.
- An online gallery — a microsite album for each event, carrying your logo, which guests can share on to Facebook themselves.
- FTP, OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox, so the client has their own copies as the event runs rather than the morning after.
All of them queue the same way, so the same is true of all of them: the venue’s wifi is not your problem.
Try it on your own booth
The 30 day trial runs the complete application with every Premium feature enabled, on your own camera, printer and artwork, so you can send a photo to your own phone before committing to anything. Photos taken on an unlicensed machine carry a watermark, which buying a licence removes permanently.