9 Tools to Create Your Personal or Business Chatbot

People love messaging.

It’s everywhere, and most likely, your customer is on any one of the chat services.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook Messenger
• WeChat
• Skype
• LINE
• Slack
• QQ Mobile
• And much more…

Do you agree?

Well, if not, then take a look at mobile messaging app stats by Statista.

Get into the new world by having a Chatbot for your business to transform the service, support, and overall user experience.

If you are wondering what Chatbot is – it’s a program designed to have a conversation with a human over Chat. You can train/configure your chatbot to answer your customer on your behalf. A chatbot can understand the human language and respond accordingly.

There are a significant number of automation possibilities through Chatbot, including some of them below.

• FAQ – create a bot to automate your frequently asked questions
• Order Tracking/Shipping – let the bot answer the order/shipping status
• eCommerce – train your bot to engage your website visitor and convert them into customer

You can either develop your own or leverage the following service provider to build your chatbot.

Landbot.io

Landbot is an adaptable chatbot development platform that supports any business looking to develop a codeless multipurpose virtual assistant. It can be easily integrated with a website or any third-party app like WhatsApp, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Google Sheets, Zapier, Mailchimp, and many more.

This award-winning platform includes machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and automation.

It enables every department, such as marketing, sales, customer support, and operations, to create virtual assistants without writing a single line of code.

One of its distinctive features is its simplicity and swiftness in creating your virtual assistant using its prebuilt templates. It provides in-depth conversation statistics to optimize the sales funnel or support quality.

It even integrates quickly with your CRM, such as Calendly, Hubspot, and Salesforce, making it easier for you to carry out day-to-day business operations.

The chatbot’s additional features, which include a visual drag-and-drop interface, a dashboard for chatbot metrics, and multi-agent support, among others, will make it more appealing and cause fewer development hassles.

It is helpful for any organization to increase user interaction, cut ongoing development costs and increase customer satisfaction. Its video tutorials are worth watching if you intend to start utilizing it.

Collect.chat

Collect.chat’s human-friendly Chatbot service ensures you have higher conversions and better customer satisfaction levels. You can let it run automatically 24/7, even while all your staff members are fast asleep. Just set it up once and it requires no further configurations or maintenance unless you wish to.

The intelligence of this Chatbot can engage and convert visitors by conversing like a human, rather than throwing generic phrases. You can even integrate it into over 15 different third-party apps, including Gmail, WordPress, and Dropbox.

Collect.chat is used by over 10,000 businesses all over the world and Airbnb is one of them. You can try out their demo and get started from there.

HubSpot

With HubSpot’s Chatbot Builder, you can have unlimited personalized conversations with your customers, and that too at scale. This is a great solution to provide support, book meetings, and even qualify leads without really having much of staff members.

While it’s still a “Chatbot,” it doesn’t really have to sound robotic. Your bot can view every customer’s past conversation history and add a human touch to it by enabling personalized messages for that particular user.

Using this service would mean allowing your members to automate the common questions and problems, and focus on conversations that require attention.

You can seamlessly assemble this Chatbot into your website without having any coding knowledge. Just choose a template based on your bot’s purpose, and then customize the tone, questions, and other elements to match your requirements.

If in case you do not wish to use a template, then you can start from scratch as well and build it easily from there.

Chatfuel

Launch your Facebook chatbot in a few minutes without coding. Chatfuel is used by big giants like UBER, TechCrunch, etc.

Chatfuel integrates with all your favorite services, including Twitter, YouTube, JSON, Instagram, etc.

And the most fantastic thing about Chatfuel is pricing.

Super cool. Isn’t it?

If you decide to use Chatfuel, then I would recommend this tutorial to build a Facebook chatbot.

Flow XO

Build and host a great bot for messenger, slack, telegram, etc. with FlowXO. You don’t need to know the coding to own the bot.

FlowXO helps you to integrate your bot with more than 90 third-party services, including the following.

• Buffer
• GitHub
• Gmail
• JIRA
• LinkedIn
• Mailgun
• StatusCake
• And much more…

SnatchBot

SnatchBot allows you to build chatbots for free on Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Line, Skype, Websites, Viber, and many more channels. It has its own NLP engine, which works in 135 languages. And the interface is easy to use: no coding is needed at all.

Botsify

Botsify lets you create one chatbot for up to 100 users per month is FREE. If you are looking for a purely Facebook chat, then this is something worth giving a try.

Do you have a WordPress website? Botsify got a plugin for that. You can try the sample chatbot here.

You can design the bot, and it supports image, video, audio files, and the option to integrate with Medium.

API.AI

Built intelligent Facebook Bot in three easy steps with api.ai.

• Design – Create your bot
• Connect – integrate with your favorite backend
• Launch – go-live

API.AI provides a complete solution to build machine learning the smart, conversational platform and support cross-platforms like Android, HTML, Node.js, iOS, Python, etc.

Currently, it supports 14 languages and can be integrated with the following.

• Slack
• Skype
• Twitter
• Cisco Spark
• Kik
• LINE
• Amazon Alexa
• Telegram
• Twilio IP/SMS
• Microsoft Cortana
• Agent Demo

Manybot

Is your audience on Telegram?

Manybot lets you create a bot for telegram without writing a single line code.

You can send text, pictures, videos to your subscribers, and there is no limit on the post length. Create custom commands to control your business.

And last but not least, you can configure auto-posting your blog with RSS feeds.

Conclusion

I hope the above gives you an idea of how to create your personal or business chatbot to speed up things. Most of the above have the FREE plan, so go ahead and try out.

I am sure you will love it.