Question
My company is pursuing a chatbot solution. How can we do that using Zendesk?
Answer
Depending on the level of complexity you need and the resources available to you, there are multiple options.
Build your own
By using the Chat Conversations API you are able to create your own chatbot. Using this API essentially allows your application to act as an agent chatting with your customers.
This option can be developer-intensive. For more information, see this article:Getting started with the Chat Conversations API.
Answer Bot
Answer Bot is Zendesk's own chatbot product. At its most basic, Answer Bot usesmachine learningto search your knowledge base to find articles that match your customer's question. For more information on Answer Bot, see the following articles:
- Understanding everywhere you can use Zendesk bots
- Enabling Article Recommendations in the Web Widget (Classic)
If youenable Zendesk Messagingon your account, you will have access to a much more customizable experience.消息传递机器人can mimic real conversations and create a more natural support experience.
You can build these conversations in a tool calledconversation bot. Using conversation bot, you start bycreating a messaging botto interact with your customers. You can create multiple unique bots for different brands, languages, locales, and departments. Once you have your bots built, you populate them withAnswers. Each Answer addresses one particular customer question or issue, also known as an intent. Over time, youtrain your botso it gets better at answering customer questions. If you don't have an Answer already configured, then Answer Bot simply falls back on the article recommendations search described above.
Sunshine Conversations
You can use Sunshine Conversation APIs to connect bots over messaging. See these articles for more information:
Third-party solution
You are also able to integrate third-party AI software with Zendesk for your chatbot needs. It is important to consider that Zendesk Customer Support is not able to directly assist with this implementation, as our ability to answer questions about third-party software is limited.
10 Comments
Hi,
This article says we can use "chat conversations API".
I subscribed for a suite enterprise account, and i don't have access to the chat conversations API.
当我提出这个支持,他们说it's not available for the new accounts!
Yes, most of newly set up accounts are no longer able to access the Chat Conversations API. Similar to what's mentionedhere, the recommended path going forward is through Sunshine Conversations.
But, we saw that you have an existing ticket with us about this; we have followed up on the status of your request, and we'll be reaching out to you with an update as soon as possible. Thank you, Jegadeesan!
Hey! The last link in the article is broken (the one tohttps://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408833631002-How-do-I-contact-my-Zendesk-account-representative-)
HelloTuule,
Appreciate you letting us know about the broken link. We've gone ahead and taken care of this.
Best regards.
Do we have to use Zendesk knowledge base articles when building chatbot flows? Can we pull from different sources (ie. brand-owned website, blog, etc..)?
Yes, you can pull data to the chatbot from different sources (ie. brand-owned websites, blogs, etc..) usingthe API call step in Flow Builder.
Hope it helps,
Muhammad Saqib<muhammad.saqib@markaz.app>
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/5352026794010-About-monthly-active-users-for-Zendesk-bots
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Hi Zendesk Team,
Good day,
I would like to ask is possible to use the Viber,WeChat, chatbot inside sandbox for Free without charge?
Thank you.
Hi Marvin,
If you are referring to Messaging bot, then yes! You should be able to use the messaging bot in your Sandbox account free of charge. Hope this helps!
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