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Setting up and using Custom Bots to qualify, route and book meetings with your website visitors.

Bot Question: Welcome Message

The welcome message is the first message your users will see when they visit your chatbot. It is the first default block you will find in your builder when you start working on a new bot. It will appear as below: The block sidepanel menu gives you...

Bot Question: Send a Simple Message

Send a Message blocks allow you to send text to your visitors with just a couple of clicks. To create a simple message, simply drag and drop the "Send a simple message" block from the left side panel on to the canvas. Once created, you'll see a bu...

Bot Question: Ask For Email

As the name indicates, this block asks the visitor for their email address. This is one of the most important blocks because collecting email address via Chatbots has 30% higher conversions than forms. Gist builds contact details for each site vis...

Bot Question: Reply Buttons

Buttons are elements your users can click to move on to the next block in the conversation. Buttons Setup To create a Buttons type block, drag and drop the green dot and select Buttons: Then, you can add more messages to the question by clicking o...

Bot Question: Collect Customer Data

Use this action to ask a question during your bot conversation and collect data to populate specific contact properties.

Bot Question: Book A Meeting

The Book a meeting block allows for your qualified leads to easily book meetings on the calendars of your sales reps. Whether the reps are online or not, we’ll allow for you to show the booker to your visitors for an easy way for them to pick the ...

Bot Flow: Check if team is online

A "Check if team is online" block is used to split the bot flow depending on if your any specific teammates or teams are online. Example use-case: You can check if a specific teammate is online and if they are, route the conversation to them and s...

Bot Flow: Matches a custom audience

A "Matches a custom audience" block is where you define the filters that a customer must meet in order to proceed down a specific path. You can filter based on contact properties or events. This block allows you to hyper-personalise your bot flow....

Bot Action: Let Emma AI Answer

Improve automated support for outbound bot flows by letting Emma AI respond to your customers.

Bot Skill: Tag Contact

The "Tag Contact" skill, gives you the ability to add a tag to a contact at any point within the bot flow. Tags are labels you create to help organize your contacts. And by adding a tag to a contact during the bot flow, you can subscribe them to d...

Bot Skill: Tag Conversation

The "Tag Conversation" skill, gives you the ability to add a tag to a conversation at any point within the bot flow. Tags are labels you create to help organize your conversations. And by adding a tag to a conversation during the bot flow, you can...

Bot Skill: Set Contact Property Value

Use this action to set a contact property to a specific value based on the replies of your website visitor. Example: Here's a bot flow that updates the "Bot resp interested in" property with different values such as "Book Meetings", "Lead Generati...

Bot Skill: Set Conversation Property Value

Use this action to set a conversation property to a specific value based on the replies of your website visitor. Example: Here's a bot flow that updates the "Type" property with different values such as "Feature request", or "Bug report" depending...

Bot Action: Route Conversation

The "Route Conversation" skill gives you the ability to route the conversation at any point within the bot flow. This skill is useful for two reasons:  Have more control over your bot flow Reduce the amount of lost conversions with site visitors...

Bot Skill: Close Conversation

With the "Close Conversation" block, you can automatically close conversations at a certain point of the flow to keep your conversation inbox tidy. It's best practice to add "Close Conversation" block as the last block of your bot flow to avoid lo...

Bot Flow: Pass To Another Bot

If you are planning to build a really large bot flow, for example, a welcome bot that acts as a central hub for your customer's FAQs, things can get really complex very quickly as there would be multiple branches for each path your customer could ...