Overview: What is Chatbuddy?

Overview: What is Chatbuddy?

What is Chatbuddy?

Chatbuddy is an automated attendant designed to help you extend the capabilities of your business. Chatbuddy can serve as your automated order-taker, taking customers' orders for you and address most customer queries, so that you can focus on growing your business strategically.

Chatbuddy excels at the following services:

Automated Inquiries

Chatbuddy can handle conversations with your customers who initiate a chat with your business through Facebook Messenger or via your website with an installed chat application. It can respond to their questions or display a catalog of your offerings to them.

Automated inquiries with Chatbuddy

Chatbuddy can handle location-based inquiries (i.e. multiple branches), time-based responses, and even converse in multiple languages (Tagalog, English, and other dialects and languages).

Multiple language support in Chatbuddy

Chatbuddy can show your potential customers your price list and product catalog, so that you don't have to look for that information yourself whenever a customer asks for information.

Give them a picture of your price list:

Provide price list images in Chatbuddy

...or let them scroll through your products right in the chat window:

Display product information right in the chat window with Chatbuddy

Automated Order Taking

Chatbuddy can take your customers' orders for you, freeing up your time to do more complex tasks. After providing Chatbuddy with your product catalog, it can handle everything:

From taking your customers' orders:

Take your customers' orders with Chatbuddy

...to totalling their orders for them:

Display your customers' order total with Chatbuddy

Chatbuddy can send your orders to a Google Spreadsheet automatically, so you can track from there without any problems.

Chatbuddy order list sample

Of course, if you prefer to see the chat yourself, you can do so as well. The orders are stored in our secure servers and can be accessed using an administrator tool for qualified accounts.

Reservation and Appointment Handling

Chatbuddy can also handle reservations and appointments for your business. Your customers can message the chatbot and set an appointment or reservation:

Reservations and appointment booking with Chatbuddy

Your chatbot will send you the reservation details so that you don't have to worry about asking for these routine questions personally!

Set appointments with Chatbuddy

Marketing and Promotions

You can get access to valuable marketing and promotion features with Chatbuddy, letting you hold promos right in your chatbot.

It's easy to run promotional codes to give discounts to your customers:

Promotional codes set up in Chatbuddy

Since Chatbuddy can take into consideration past transactions and conversation, it's also easy to give your customers a nudge when they haven't ordered from you in a while, or to remind them that they haven't finished checking out their order!

Sending a broadcast message to your customers who have opted in for marketing messages are also a breeze. Integrations with popular mailing list platforms are also possible.

All-Around Assistance

Chatbuddy has many other functions that will be of use to you and your business, with many more in the pipeline. Here are some of the other things Chatbuddy can handle now:
  1. Order history and handling
  2. Time-based responses
  3. SMS notifications
  4. One-Time PIN/Password (OTP) verification
  5. Keyword triggers
  6. Payment handling
And many more.

If you are interested, chat with us here on the website, or find out how you can get started with Chatbuddy here. You can also send us an email at info@chatbuddy.com.ph, or give us a call at +632-8426-0630 to get started.

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