8 tools for creating personal or business chat bot

Everyone loves to correspond. Messengers are now everywhere, and most likely your client uses at least one of the following:

• Whatsapp
• Facebook messenger
• WeChat
• Skype
• LINE
• Slack
• QQ Mobile
• and many others ...

I think you agree with me. And if not, take a look at Statista data on the use of messaging applications on mobile devices.
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Become part of the new world and use the chat bot. The service, support and perception of your customers will change completely.

Let's see what a virtual buddy or chat bot is. This is a program designed to maintain a dialogue with a person through chat.

You can train / customize the bot chat so that it responds to customers instead of you. Chat bot can understand the language of a person and generate a logical answer.

The possibilities for automation using chat bot are vast, for example:

• FAQ - using the chat bot, you can configure answers to frequently asked questions;
• order delivery tracking - chat bot will be able to answer questions about order status;
• e-commerce - with the help of a virtual interlocutor you can interest a visitor to your site and turn it into your client.

You can either develop the program yourself, or contact one of the following service providers.

Platforms for creating bots:

1. Morph.ai
2. Flow xo
3. Botsify
4. API.AI
5. Motion.ai
6. Chatfuel
7. Manybot
8. Recast

Morph.ai

Morph.ai allows you to create a virtual companion in minutes. Now you can support and service your customers through an interactive interface. Chat bot understands natural language, responds briefly and in context, can be trained.



Morph.ai gives complete freedom of action in relation to the content and sequence of messages, interface. Implemented support for a variety of instant messaging services, including the following:

• Facebook messenger
• Twitter
• Slack
• Skype
• LINE
• SMS

I created a bot for my Facebook page , and the result struck me.

Among other things, Morph can be integrated into Shopify, Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, used with API, hooks, so there is no need to manually export contacts or data.

In general, the configuration of the virtual interlocutor using the control panel is easy, so do not hesitate and start creating your first bot.

Flow xo

Flow XO allows you to create and place chat bots for various instant messengers, including Slack and Telegram. To use the bot does not require knowledge of programming. Flow OX makes it easy to integrate with more than 90 services:

• Buffer
• Github
• Gmail
• Jira
• LinkedIn
• Mailgun
• StatusCake
• and many others ...

Botsify

Botsify provides the ability to create a virtual buddy for 100 users per month for free. If you are only interested in chat on Facebook, then you should try Botsify.

And what if your WordPress site? For such cases, Botsify has a special plugin. To evaluate the trial version , follow the link.


Design can do yourself. The ability to add images, audio and other files. Integration with Medium is available.

API.AI

Using Api.ai, creating a smart buddy for Facebook is done in three simple steps.

1. Development - create a bot;
2. Connection - set up integration with any server application;
3. Start - the beginning of work.

API.AI is a complete solution for creating a student chat bot that supports various platforms, for example, Android, HTML, Node.js, iOS, Python, etc.



To date, the program supports 14 languages ​​and can be used with :

• Slack
• Skype
• Twitter
• Cisco Spark
• Kik
• LINE
• Amazone alexa
• Telegram
• Twilio IP / SMS
• Microsoft Cortana
• Agent demo

Motion.ai

On Motion.ai you can create 2 chat bots for 1000 messages per month for free. And all this is not only for Facebook, but also for SMS, various web services, Slack, Smooch and email.



It is possible to start work free of charge, detailed documentation is provided.

Chatfuel

A virtual buddy for Facebook will be ready in just 7 minutes and without the need to write code. Chatfuel is used by such giants as UBER, TechCrunch, etc.

Integration with your favorite services, for example, Twitter, YouTube, JSON, Instagram, etc. is possible.



Most striking approach to pricing.



Platform for creating chat bot is absolutely free!
Wow, isn't it?

Manybot

Maybe your audience uses Telegram? With the help of Manybot you can create a chat bot for Telegram without writing a single line of code.



Send text, images and videos to subscribers. There are no restrictions on the length of the message. Keep the business under control with personalized teams. Finally, you can also set up an automatic blog update using RSS.

Recast

Develop your virtual buddy on Recast . If you need one chat bot to operate on different platforms, then most likely you should be interested in Recast.

Chat bot can work on Facebook, Slack, Skype, Kik, etc.



Additional options:

• Rebotify
• Bottomr

I hope I helped you figure out how to create a virtual buddy for business or personal use. Most of the above applications have free rates, so go for it. I am sure you will love it.

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