With ChatBot you can build a bot with no coding skills. It can provide round the clock support and take a thousand chats at the same time, giving your agents more time to work on difficult cases. What is more, bots can send rich messages and use LiveChat exclusive actions.
How to integrate LiveChat with ChatBot
When you add a ChatBot to LiveChat, there are two possible paths. You can create a ChatBot account, log into the ChatBot panel, create a story and, once your ChatBot is ready, connect it with LiveChat. This workflow is described here. You can also add new ChatBot agents right in the LiveChat app. Such workflow is described below.
Add a ChatBot agent in LiveChat
You can add a new ChatBot agent from the LiveChat Agent app. To do so, log in to the LiveChat app and follow these steps:
That’s it! The bot is now ready to handle chats with customers. You can preview its performance and edit it in the Bots tab in the Agents section.
The priority in the ChatBot panel is set for the General group in LiveChat. Please see below on how to set up the bot priority for your other groups.
The priority in the ChatBot panel is set for the General group in LiveChat. Please see below on how to set up the bot priority for your other groups.
To set the priority for your bot in groups other than General, please go to Agents>Groups in the LiveChat app, double-click on the group you want to edit, add your bot as an agent to this group, and select the priority for the bot. For a more detailed step-by-step instruction with screenshots, see this article.
In groups other than General, there are three priority levels to choose from:
Bot - all chats go to the bot first
Primary - bot is treated as a regular agent
Secondary - bot gets chats when no agent can take them.
How bots work in Livechat
Here are a few basic rules bots live by:
- they become one of your agents and if you are on our legacy ‘pay-per seat’ business model, bots take up a seat.
- with the ‘all chats go to a bot first’ setting, by default every customer will chat with the bot. You can change this using the ‘remember recent agent’ option to connect returning customers directly with an agent.
- they are able to transfer chats to human agents, and human agents can transfer chats back to the bot.
- all conversations with a bot are archived both by ChatBot and LiveChat.
LiveChat exclusive bot actions
ChatBot integration with LiveChat provides you with a few exclusive features:
- transfer — redirect chats from the bot to agents.
- create ticket — let the customer decide if they want to create a ticket that will be solved by a human agent.
- transcript — set a point in the story where a transcript of the conversation is sent to a predefined e-mail address.
- close chat — close the conversation when its final goal has been reached.
- tags — let the bot tag chats.
- goals — add goals to your scenarios to measure how well your bots are performing.
How to disable a bot
That’s it, the bot has been disabled and all chats will be directed to agents. If you change your mind, you can enable it again, by turning on the switch.
How to delete a bot
Your bot has been deleted. To connect a bot again, you need to add a new ChatBot in LiveChat.
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