Diwali campaign

Diwali WhatsApp marketing templates

Four free Diwali WhatsApp templates you can copy, edit and submit to Meta — the biggest week of the year, and the most crowded inbox.

Sun, 8 Nov, 2026In 7 days4 ready templatesHindu calendar

The largest commercial event in India and the hardest inbox of the year to be read in. Start ten to twelve days out, and stop promising delivery in the final three.

The sequence

The four Diwali messages, in order

Each preview is the real template — the exact body, the footer Meta needs, and the button. Amber marks the blanks you fill in. Copy any one of them, or download all four.

Free, no sign-up. Copy any single message with the button on its card.
  • Early accessStep 1 of 429 Oct – 1 Nov

    Diwali - Early Bird Drop

    Opens the festive collection to your best customers before anyone else.

    7 to 10 days beforeMarketing ₹0.8631

    diwali_early_bird

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  • Gift guideStep 2 of 42 Nov – 4 Nov

    Diwali - Festive Gifting Guide

    A shortlist for the customer who wants to buy but has not decided what.

    4 to 6 days beforeMarketing ₹0.8631

    diwali_gifting_guide

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  • Flash saleStep 3 of 45 Nov – 7 Nov

    Diwali - Flash Sale Discount

    The discount-led push, with a code and a deadline the festival sets for you.

    1 to 3 days beforeMarketing ₹0.8631

    diwali_flash_sale

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  • Day-of greetingStep 4 of 48 Nov

    Diwali - Day of Greeting

    A wish, a thank-you, and one small thing inside for next time.

    On the dayMarketing ₹0.8631

    diwali_greetings

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The brief

What moves at Diwali

The commercial facts behind the copy: when the money moves, what sells, and where in India it matters.

When the money moves

Ten to four days before. The last three days belong to local delivery and quick commerce, not to anyone shipping across the country.

Where it matters most

Pan-India, and the largest commercial event of the Indian year

What sells

  • Gift hampers and corporate gifting, booked earliest and at the highest value
  • Diyas, lights, rangoli and home decor
  • Ethnic wear and footwear for the whole family
  • Sweets, chocolate and dry fruit
  • Electronics, appliances and home upgrades
  • Gold, silver and jewellery, carried over from Dhanteras

When to send each Diwali message

Dates below are counted from Sun, 8 Nov, 2026. Submit the templates to Meta about a week before the first send, so an approval queue is never the thing that decides the campaign.

Message
Send window
Who it goes to
Early accessOpens the festive collection to your best customers before anyone else.
29 Oct – 1 Nov
Repeat buyers and your highest-spend segment
Gift guideA shortlist for the customer who wants to buy but has not decided what.
2 Nov – 4 Nov
The full opted-in list
Flash saleThe discount-led push, with a code and a deadline the festival sets for you.
5 Nov – 7 Nov
Everyone who has not bought from the first two
Day-of greetingA wish, a thank-you, and one small thing inside for next time.
8 Nov
The full opted-in list, offer-free

Windows are a starting point, not a rule. Shift them earlier if you ship nationwide, and earlier again for anything that has to arrive before the day.

What your customer is buying at Diwali

Three buyers at once, and they want different things. Corporate and bulk gifting is decided earliest and has the largest basket. Family gifting is the volume driver and stalls on indecision. Self-purchase — clothes, decor, electronics, the home upgrade — runs through the whole window. A campaign that writes one message for all three reaches none of them properly.

Who to send to. Everyone opted in, but in waves: corporate and high-AOV buyers first with early access, then the full list for gift picks, then the non-openers for the discount. Sending one blast to the whole list on the same day is how a Diwali campaign gets ignored.

Yours, not ours

Customise and personalise it in the dashboard

The Diwali copy is a draft, not a script. Rewrite it, set your own offer, pick the audience, and submit it to Meta from your own WhatsApp Business account.

What you change

  • Your store name and brand voiceEvery template carries a [Store Name] slot. Fill it once and the rest of the copy is yours to rewrite — the catalog copy is a starting draft, not a fixed script.
  • Your discount code and offer[Discount Code] is a blank, so the code, the depth and whether there is an offer at all are decisions you make per festival rather than ones the template makes for you.
  • The button and where it goesEach template ships with one call-to-action button. Change the label, point it at the collection you actually want to land on, or swap it for a quick-reply button.
  • Festive creative in the headerThe catalog ships without a media header, because that is the component Meta rejects most often. Add your own festive image or video on your submission when you want one.
  • LanguageThe catalog is in English. Submit a Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali or Gujarati version of the same template under your own account and send it to the segment it fits.
  • Who receives it, and whenBuild the audience from order history, city, past festival purchases or spend, then schedule each of the four messages against the festival date instead of sending them by hand.

From catalog to campaign

  1. Open the festive catalogAll one hundred templates are in your dashboard under the template library, grouped by festival with the same previews you see on this page.
  2. Edit and useOne click opens the template pre-filled — body, footer and button already in place — so you are editing a draft rather than writing from a blank form.
  3. Submit to MetaPush it to Meta for approval from inside the dashboard. Approval is usually hours rather than days once your business is verified.
  4. Schedule the sequenceSet the four sends against the festival date, pick the audience for each, and the campaign runs without anyone remembering to press send.

Free for 14 days, no card. Templates are submitted under your own WhatsApp Business account, so they stay yours.

  • Delitech Smart Home
  • Apex Light
  • ajeeb
  • Ecom
  • Oleez Online
  • Live in the same week they asked

    “Moksh got our Shopify WhatsApp live the same week we asked. Abandoned carts and COD confirms on one stack — for a smart-home catalog with real AOV, that inbox with order context is what we actually needed.”

    Ved PatelFounder, Delitech Smart Home
  • One inbox instead of WhatsApp Web and Shopify admin

    “We were juggling WhatsApp Web and Shopify admin for every order question. TopEdge puts the SKU and COD status beside the chat. Recovery sequences finally feel like Apex, not a generic blast.”

    ShubhamApex Light

Read the customer stories →

Diwali questions teams ask

Ten to twelve days before Diwali, earlier than for any other Indian festival. Gifting decisions are made early, corporate orders earlier still, and the final three days belong to local delivery rather than nationwide shipping.

Run your Diwali campaign on WhatsApp

Copy the four templates, edit them to your brand, push them to Meta for approval and schedule the sends. Free for 14 days, no card.