Add Autoresponder to BotCommerce #

• From the BotCommerce dashboard, go to the WhatsApp bot manager.

• Choose the bot for which you want to collect emails.
• If you have multiple bots, go to the configuration and click on the “New” button in the Autoresponder section to add a new Autoresponder.

  

• The Autoresponder profile page will open in a new tab.

Configure Mailchimp in BotCommerce #

• From the Autoresponder profile page, click on the “New” button.

• On the right side, select the Mailchimp option.

• Provide a profile name to identify it later.
• You will need the API key from Mailchimp. Go to your Mailchimp account and from the dashboard, go to your profile and click on “API keys”.

• Create a new API key by providing a name and clicking on “Generate key”.

• Copy this key and paste it into the BotCommerce’s API key field. Assign a name to the API profile and click on “Save”.

• Go back to the configuration and refresh the page. Then select the list to which you want to send the collected emails.

Create User Input Flow in the Bot: #

• Go to the bot reply section and click on “Create”.

• Create a user input flow bot to collect email addresses from subscribers.

• Double-click on the start bot flow and enter trigger keywords. Give a name to the bot flow and save it.

• You can add the user input flow anywhere in the bot. Add it at the beginning of the chatbot flow.
• Drag a connector from the compose next message and leave the cursor. Select the user input flow, double-click on it, and select “Add a new flow”.

• Provide a name for the flow. A question will be added automatically.

Configure the Question to Collect Emails #

• Configure the question by choosing the question type as “Free keyboard input”.

• Add the question to ask for the user’s email address and select the reply type as “Email”. This is crucial to ensure the email is saved to the email autoresponder.
• You can also save this response in Bot Sailor’s custom or system field. Select the appropriate field and save it.

• To complete the user input flow, add a final reply.

Save and Test #

• Save the final configuration of the bot.

• Test the bot to ensure everything is working correctly.

Verify in Mailchimp #

• Go to the contacts list in Mailchimp to verify that the email has been added correctly.

That’s it! Now you know how to collect subscriber email addresses on your WhatsApp Chatbot and send them to an email list in Mailchimp.