Trigger

The Trigger block helps WotNot decide which chatbot to launch when a user initiates a conversation.

Since you can have multiple chatbots on your account, setting up trigger conditions ensures the right one gets activated based on the context. You can combine conditions using AND / OR logic to build more precise rules.

Here are the available trigger conditions:

Contact subscription

In channels like WhatsApp and SMS, businesses can reach out to contacts at any time, even if the contact doesn't want to have a conversation.

Countries' laws mandate that companies maintain a subscription status for each contact, meaning that a contact has subscribed or unsubscribed from receiving your communication. This is similar to how unsubscription works on emails.

SUBSCRIBED - Will receive any new template message that the company sends as a promotion.

UNSUBSCRIBED - Will not receive any template message that the company sends as a promotion.

So, based on the conditions you define for the trigger, you can choose to set the subscription status for the contact.

Generally, you should always have two chatbots:

• Your main chatbot, which has the 'Subscribed' status

• An acknowledgment chatbot for when users type 'STOP.'

Inject data into the chatbot

If you want to send external data to the chatbot, you can use this option. Once enabled, you can map the fields that contain the value with the WotNot variable.

Two ways you can inject the data:

Using Query params

With this method, when the WotNot snippet is loaded on the website for the first time, the defined query params and their values will be stored in the WotNot variable.

For example, if your URL is the followingwww.wotnot.io?cust_id=1234&plan=9896

You can choose to store the values of cust_id and plan on the trigger action block.

Using JSON

With this method, you can inject a JSON payload inside the WotNot’s code snippet and map the objects to be stored in the trigger action block.

To do this you need to add the following object with your desired fields in the WotNot code snippet

data-session-payload='{"field1": "value", "field2: "value"}

Now, let's take an example to understand this.

Assume you are using the chatbot in your web app and you already know who is the user initiating the chat. For your agents to be aware of the user details, you can add their name, email, customer_id, plan, etc. to the WotNot code snippet.

<script src="" data-session-payload='{"name": "Charles", "phone": "8164848686"}' defer></script>

We have stored the “name” and “phone" fields to WotNot variables on the trigger action block.