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Connect Canva to WhatsApp: folders and designs by chat
Flann is an AI agent your business talks to on WhatsApp. Connect Canva once, then ask Flann to look things up in it or get work done in it, by text or voice note. Most owners keep the brand in their head and the files in Canva. New pieces start from what you have already made, so the shop window, the menu board and your social feed all look like the same business.
45 actions in Canva. 27 only look things up, and 18 create, update, send or delete. You connect with a one-click sign-in.
What you can ask Flann to do in Canva
Send any of these on WhatsApp, in your own words. Flann finds the right Canva action and fills in the details from the conversation.
“Show me my design pages in Canva.”
“Create a design in Canva.”
“Create a folder in Canva.”
“Move the item in Canva.”
What Flann can work with in Canva
Canva gives Flann 45 actions across 10 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Folders | createdeletelook upupdate | 4 |
| Designs | look upcreate | 2 |
Doing it yourself, wiring up a rule, or asking an agent: here is how they compare for Canva.
| Compare | In Canva yourselfYou click through each job | A fixed workflowTriggers built in advance | Flann on CanvaYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Log in and click through the screens | Only what was wired up in advance | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about folders | By hand, screen by screen | Only the look-ups someone built | 27 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | Run unchecked once built | 18 changes, made from a message |
| Canva records | All of them, one screen at a time | Only the ones you wire up | 10 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Someone builds and maintains each flow | One sign-in to Canva |
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Step by step: Canva jobs you can hand to Flann
Each step below names the Canva action Flann actually runs.
Create a folder from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a folder in Canva with these details.”
- Flann runs
Retrieve folder details by idin Canva and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create folderin Canva. - Flann creates it in Canva and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your designs
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our designs in Canva?”
- Flann runs
List User Designsin Canva and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Canva is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your design pages from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our design pages in Canva stand.”
- Flann runs
List design pages with paginationin Canva and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Canva is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Repetitive Canva work Flann takes off your plate
These are the jobs that come back every day or every week. Message Flann instead, and keep the decisions for yourself.
Keeping the menu design current
Today
When a dish changes, the printed menu and the screen behind the till are both out of date. Editing the design in Canva usually waits until someone asks for the soup that is no longer there.
With Flann
“Remove the soup of the day from the lunch menu in Canva and add the halloumi wrap.”
The menu design in Canva is edited with the spacing kept even and a short description written for the wrap in the style of the rest. A preview of the whole menu comes back so you can read it as a customer would.
What you stop doing: Waiting for a customer to point out an old menu is over.
Updating the website for holidays
Today
Bank holidays, staff holidays and the Christmas closure all need a change on your website. Logging into Canva for one line of text is easy to put off, and customers turn up to a locked door.
With Flann
“We’re closed Boxing Day and open late on the twenty-third. Update the hours on Canva.”
Opening hours are found in every place Canva shows them, including the footer and the contact page, and the change is prepared for each. You get a before-and-after card.
What you stop doing: Logging in to fix a single line of opening hours no longer falls to you.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Canva
- Search for Canva in Flann’s Connectors.
- Sign in to your Canva account on the secure page that opens and allow access. There is no developer account or API key to set up.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Canva action and fills in the details.
Look-ups run as soon as you ask and change nothing in Canva. You can disconnect Canva from Connectors at any time.
Ways to use Canva with Flann
Turn a rough idea into a draft
Send Flann a voice note. It uses Canva to prepare a first version, ready for your edits.
Make this week’s post
Describe the offer. Flann prepares the piece in Canva and shows it to you before anything is published.
Find the file you made
Ask for last month’s poster or video. Flann finds it in Canva and brings it into the chat.
Everything Flann can do in Canva
The full list of Canva actions available to Flann once you connect it.
Looks up 27
- Fetch asset upload job status
- Fetch current user details
- Fetch design metadata and access information
- Get design export formats
- Get design export job result
- Get URL asset upload job status
- Get URL import job status
- Get user capabilities
- List User Designs
- Retrieve asset metadata by id
- Retrieve design import job status
- Retrieve Design Resize Job Status
- Who Am I
- Access user specific brand templates list
- Fetch canva connect signing public keys
- Get design comment thread replies
- Get designs designid comments threadid
- Get specific design comment reply
- List design pages with pagination
- List folder items by type with sorting
- Retrieve app public key set
- Retrieve brand template dataset definition
- Retrieve brand template metadata
- Retrieve design autofill job status
- Retrieve folder details by id
- Retrieveuserprofiledata
- Validate oauth token properties
Changes 18
- Create Asset Upload Job
- Create Design Import Job
- Create Design Resize Job
- Create folder
- Create new Canva design
- Create URL Asset Upload Job
- Create URL Import Job
- Start design export job
- Create reply to comment thread
- Delete asset by id
- Exchange oauth 2 0 access or refresh token
- Initiate canva design autofill job
- Move item to specified folder
- Post designs designid comments
- Remove folder and move contents to trash
- Revoke oauth tokens
- Update asset s name and tags by id
- Update folder details by id
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What can Flann do with folders in Canva?
Flann can create, delete, look up and update folders in Canva, using 4 actions (Create folder, Remove folder and move contents to trash, Retrieve folder details by id, Update folder details by id). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change folders in Canva.
What can Flann do with designs in Canva?
Flann can look up and create designs in Canva, using 2 actions (List User Designs, Create new Canva design). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change designs in Canva.
How does Flann connect to Canva?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Canva and sign in to your Canva account on a secure page. There is no developer account or API key to set up. Once it is connected, Flann can use 45 actions in Canva.
Can I use Canva from WhatsApp?
Yes. You talk to Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and Flann works in Canva for you. You do not need to open Canva.
Is Canva included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Canva included.