Questions and answers about the BotNow AI assistant
How the bot learns your store and where it gets prices, what it does when it doesn't know the answer, what data the language model receives. We say plainly what is still in development.
What is BotNow?
An AI shopping assistant for online stores. It reads your site and catalog, answers shoppers' questions about products, shipping and payment, recommends products within a budget and collects leads when it has no answer. It installs on your site with one line of code.
How does the bot learn about my store?
You enter your site address. A robot reads the public pages, respecting robots.txt, and takes the catalog from an XML (YML) product feed, from WooCommerce, or from the markup of product pages. It cannot see private sections or customer accounts.
Can the bot invent a price or shipping terms?
The bot takes prices, availability and terms from the data it found and quotes them exactly. If the data isn't there, it says it doesn't know and offers to leave contacts. Before installing it on your site, talk to the bot in the test chat and check its answers.
What do I need to connect it?
Your site address and the ability to paste one line of code on your pages. In Tilda it is the HTML code field in the site settings, in WordPress the theme footer or a code-snippet plugin, on a custom site the shared page template.
Does it work with Tilda, WooCommerce and custom sites?
Yes, those are our main platforms. For Tilda the catalog is read from the product page markup, for WooCommerce from the store's open API, and for custom sites an XML (YML) product feed works best. Each platform has its own page under Integrations.
What happens if the bot doesn't know the answer?
It says so honestly and calls an operator: the operator sees the conversation and replies to the shopper right in the chat window. If nobody is available, the bot offers to leave a name and phone number, and the lead is saved with the last messages of the conversation.
What data does the language model get?
The shopper's question and the fragments of your pages and catalog that were found. Contacts from the lead form are not sent to the model. Details are in the Data and privacy section.
Is the service GDPR-compliant?
Under GDPR and similar laws, your store is the data controller and BotNow acts as a processor on your behalf. We describe the data flow openly and design the service so it is easy for the store to meet its obligations. Details are in the Data and privacy section. This is not legal advice.
How much does it cost?
The first 7 days are free. After that Base is $24 a month (200 conversations and 1 operator) and Pro is $59 a month (500 conversations, up to 10 operators and an admin dashboard). Business, installed on your own server, starts from $249 for implementation. All plans are on the Pricing page.
Will the bot replace my support team?
No. It takes over the routine questions: availability, price, shipping, payment, recommendations by budget. Complex cases, complaints and questions about specific orders should be handled by a person.
What language does the bot answer in?
The assistant answers in the language the shopper writes in, and the chat widget interface can be set to English or Russian in the dashboard. The BotNow dashboard and guides are available in English.
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