General
General settings to all chatbots
Flow Elements
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How to Work with the Chatbot Flow Builder
Last Updated: 27.07.2023
With SendPulse, you can create automated chatbot flows that will be triggered by a user action or keyword and answer customers’ questions or collect user information according to a predefined scenario.
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How to Manage Chatbot Flow Triggers
Last Updated: 27.07.2023
SendPulse allows you to create automated chatbot flows when a bot answers customer's questions according to an in advance specified scenario that launches on trigger words.
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How to Use Chatbot Builder Elements
Last Updated: 04.08.2023
With SendPulse, you can create a chatbot that will greet your new subscribers, assist users, sell products, as well as collect and filter data and send it to you for further processing. All of your flow elements can be dragged to the working field by left-clicking on them.
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How to Use the "Action" Element
Last Updated: 19.08.2023
You can perform various actions with the subscribers' data when they get to the "Action" element.
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How to Use the Filter Element in the Chatbot Flow Builder
Last Updated: 01.08.2023
Use a filter and separate your audience by their interests, customer status, or other personal data. This will allow you to send more targeted messages or interact with a contact based on their data: send webhooks to your system, open a chat with a manager, assign or update variables and tags, or launch other flows.
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How to Add a User Input Element
Last Updated: 29.08.2023
A user input element will help you gather and store data from your subscribers to further segment them and target the right audience with personalized messages.
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How to Accept Chatbot Payments
Last Updated: 04.08.2023
Implement payment for products in one click - add a payment button a message based on your chatbot scenario and automate the purchase process.
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How to Use the “Randomizer” Element
Last Updated: 01.08.2023
The “Randomize” element allows you to send elements from your chatbot script at random for A/B testing, creating quizzes, and more. Customize the size of the recipient group for each option and send random information or test different chatbot scenarios.
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How to Send Webhooks Via Chatbots
Last Updated: 04.08.2023
You can configure sending webhooks according to your chatbot flow script or activate global webhooks for different chatbot events and receive and save data in your system.
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How to Send and Receive Data from External Sources
Last Updated: 18.08.2023
Automating the data retrieval process has become even easier with API requests. You can request data about the information your user is interested in, create a customer profile, or register for an event in external systems. In response, you receive information that you can display directly in a message to the user or save it to a chatbot variable.
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How to Continue a Chatbot Flow without a User Action
Last Updated: 27.07.2023
You can continue a chatbot scenario without waiting for user interaction and send subsequent messages immediately or after scheduled intervals.
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How to Send Message Cards in Chatbots
Last Updated: 31.07.2023
You can use data that your API service to send data as an array in the JSON format in the “API request” element and create a message card with a brief description and preview image. For example, you can show your most popular items or services, a list of available product categories, or a preview of your latest blog posts in a chat with a subscriber.
Statistics and Audience
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How to Use a Live Chat
Last Updated: 04.08.2023
With the help of "Chats," you have access to chats from your chatbots directly from your SendPulse account — in the browser version or through the application on your smartphone. Here, you can reply to messages from subscribers from all of the chatbots you have connected.
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How to Manage Chatbot Subscribers and Their Data
Last Updated: 18.08.2023
In this article, we will take a look at the sources from which users can go to your chatbot and become its subscribers on Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram and talk about possible ways to add and change variables and tags.
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How to Assign Tags to Chatbot Subscribers
Last Updated: 15.03.2023
You can attach tags to your subscribers when they click on the necessary button or go through a certain flow branch scenario. As a result, you can filter your subscribers based on a particular tag and send them a message. Let's take a look at how to work with tags.
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How to Create a Variable in a Chatbot Audience
Last Updated: 09.08.2023
You can add variables with different types of data to your chatbot audience and use that data to filter your subscribers and send personalized messages.
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How to Create a Global Variable for Chatbot Subscribers
Last Updated: 19.05.2023
In your chatbot settings, you can add global variables. With their help, you will be able to use messages with predefined values common to all subscribers. For example, the name and address of your company, links to groups in social networks, or the name of a manager.
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How to Сheck Your Сhatbot User Interaction Statistics
Last Updated: 01.06.2023
You can always track how many users interacted with certain chatbot elements and received particular messages or how many users clicked specific buttons in your chatbot flows. You can view graphs and data summaries for specific periods to analyze the necessary information for each chatbot scenario individually.
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How to Create a Chat Widget for a Website
Last Updated: 21.02.2023
With SendPulse, you can create and add a signup widget to your website. This way, site visitors will be able to subscribe to your chatbots.
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How to Add Chatbot Subscription Widget Code to a Website Using Google Tag Manager
Last Updated: 21.02.2023
If you don’t have access to your website’s source code or want to separate the scripts related to tracking and marketing, you can add your chatbot subscription widget code using Google Tag Manager.
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How to Transfer Custom Variables During a Subscription to a Chatbot
Last Updated: 28.04.2023
Integrating SendPulse with messengers allows you to transfer custom variables to your SendPulse account when someone subscribes via a widget or following a link. With the help of this functionality, you can pass values for existing variables in the "Audience" tab of the chatbot.
Additional Features
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How to Create a Chatbot Flow Using a Template
Last Updated: 23.08.2023
Chatbot flows help optimize your time, automate communications, and simplify the process of solving customer issues. With SendPulse, you can use chatbot flows in your everyday business routine — from processing customer requests to providing your services with the help of AI.
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How to Edit Your Chatbot Landing Page
Last Updated: 23.08.2023
Every chatbot you create has an automatically generated bio link page where users can go to the corresponding messaging platform and subscribe to your bot. You can customize this page to fit your business goals.
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How to Set Up a Chatbot Launch
Last Updated: 22.08.2023
With SendPulse, you can create automated message flows for your chatbots that will be launched by triggers and communicate with subscribers according to your premade scenario.
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How to Generate a Chatbot Flow Using OpenAI
Last Updated: 21.07.2023
With OpenAI and SendPulse, you can speed up your chatbot content development process and cut the time you need to produce text content. You can also automate repetitive tasks, like creating template messages.
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How Your Number of Chatbot Subscribers Is Calculated
Last Updated: 10.08.2023
Let's talk about the principles implemented to charge you based on your number of chatbot subscribers.
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How to Use the “SendPulse Notifications” Bot
Last Updated: 19.07.2023
With the “SendPulse Notifications” bot, you can set up notifications for your chatbot admin about triggered flow elements and receive and reply to messages from subscribers. This allows you not to miss requests from customers and give them feedback promptly.
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How to Copy a Chatbot Flow from One Messaging Platform to Another
Last Updated: 15.03.2023
Chatbots allow you to answer common questions from your users, guide them, receive requests, and transfer data for further processing. Your message flow scenario determines the sequence in which messages and user action buttons are displayed.
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How to Use Modifiers for Variables
Last Updated: 18.08.2023
With SendPulse, you can use modifiers for chatbot variables to transform their value according to the rules you set. For example, you can format text, dates, phone numbers, and URLs.
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How to Use Regular Expressions in Chatbots
Last Updated: 21.02.2023
Regular expressions are patterns that you can use when the preset validation methods are insufficient to compare a value received from a subscriber with a template value.
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How to Add a Link to a Calendar Event in a Chatbot
Last Updated: 27.02.2023
You can add an event link from Google and other calendars to SendPulse chatbot so that users can add your events to their calendars. For example, when booking a table in a restaurant or announcements of various events — webinars, master classes, or starting a promotion in a store.
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How to Сopy a Flow to Another Chatbot
Last Updated: 15.03.2023
You can copy a flow script from one chatbot to another chatbot for the same messenger (Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp or Instagram).
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How to Launch a Bot with an A360 Event
Last Updated: 01.08.2023
You can send a message to a user in a messenger with confirmation of their reservation or order: order number, quantity of products, name of each product, etc.
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How to Launch a Bot via a Link or QR code
Last Updated: 09.08.2023
You can create a link to start your chatbot flows. When a user follows your link, a messenger chat opens and your trigger flow will launch.
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How to Manage Chatbots
Last Updated: 21.02.2023
In this section you can learn how to manage chatbots: disconnect pages, unlink an account and refresh permissions. Also, we’ll show you how to enable new pages from your linked account or link a new account after unlinking your previous account.
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How to Send a Campaign Using Segmentation
Last Updated: 23.08.2023
Based on the subscriber data that you have, you can send campaigns to specific categories of your larger audience. A properly segmented campaign is more relevant to the selected group of recipients. Because segmented campaigns are personalized and highly relevant, they have a greater response rate than a standard campaign.
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