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Run a WhatsApp customer support chatbot with OpenWA, OpenAI and Qdrant

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by Davide Boizza ✓ · 283 views · created 2026-07-21

Unknown. This template uses community nodes we can't verify statically. Uses community nodes that can't be verified statically (unverified community packages are off by default in 3.0). Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 26 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects OpenAI Chat Model, DebugHelper, Qdrant Vector Store and Embeddings OpenAI and 4 more. It also calls qdranturl over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 1 other trigger).

  1. Create collection (HTTP Request): calls qdranturl (POST)
  2. Refresh collection (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API (POST)
  3. Switch: routes items into 2 branches
  4. Get folder (Google Drive): work with file folder
  5. Edit Fields (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 8 fields: from, to, chat_id…
  6. Send Text (Open Wa): uses Open Wa
  7. Download Files (Google Drive): download
  8. Customer Support Agent (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 3 tools (Calculator, rag_search, get_human_support); memory: Window Buffer Memory
  9. DebugHelper: uses DebugHelper
  10. Qdrant Vector Store: stores documents in the Qdrant vector store, with embeddings: Embeddings OpenAI; document loader: Default Data Loader

…plus 3 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

OpenAI Chat ModelDebugHelperQdrant Vector StoreEmbeddings OpenAIVector Store Question AnswerGmailGoogle DriveOpenwa (community)

HTTP calls to: qdranturl

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

We can't fully verify this one: it relies on 2 community packages, and n8n 3.0 turns unverified community packages off by default (N8N_UNVERIFIED_PACKAGES_ENABLED=false).

  • Check that @rmyndharis/n8n-nodes-openwa is verified or supports 3.0 (used in OpenWA Trigger).
  • Check that @rmyndharis/n8n-nodes-openwa is verified or supports 3.0 (used in Send Text, Send Text1).

Nodes used (19)

From the author

Quick overview This workflow builds a WhatsApp customer-support chatbot using OpenWA and OpenAI, enriched with Qdrant RAG knowledge and optional Gmail escalation to a human agent, plus a manual knowledge-base ingestion flow that loads documents from Google…

Excerpt from Davide Boizza's description on n8n.io.

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