With our built-in Ecommerce system, you can easily manage your products, discounts and orders with BotBuz across all the channels we supported. Set once and use it everywhere! Your bot can introduce and sell products for you automatically. 💰💰

Check “Ecommerce” from the left sidebar on your dashboard:

Products

Here is where you manage your products. When you add new products,

Remember to set the availability status for the product. Utilize the Organization section to sort and organize your products:

When you click choose Product type, Vendor, Tags and Collections, you might see nothing in the list from the very beginning.

Don't worry, you can easily create one by just typing in a new name, then click the name to create a new one. See the picture above. However, for creating a new collection, you will need to access “Collections”, see next.

Variants

If a product has multiple options, use “Variants”.

In the above screenshot, tick the checkbox first and give an option name such as size, color, weight, etc (maximum 2 options). Then in “Option Values”, list all the available values of that option by typing in the field e.g. 128G and input a comma or hit the “enter” key on your keyboard. Then you will see it jump in a blue box with a delete button.

After you setup all the options, you can edit the price of each variant. Click “Save” to create the product and click the pencil icon to back to the editing page to add more details of the variant including photo, compared price, inventory, etc:

This is how it will look like in the shopping UI:

Collections

When you create new collections, you can add products to the collection in 2 ways:

• manually add existing products to it You need to choose the "Manual" option and save it first, then click the pencil mark to add products. When you add products, you can click the "Search" button without any keyword to get the full list of all existing products or type in any keyword to search.

• add automatically by giving conditions setup the conditions before you save the creation. "all conditions" means only the product which matches all conditions listed here will be added to this collection. While "any condition" means the product which matches any one of the conditions listed here will be added.

Discounts

Select the “Discounts” tag and click “Create Discount”.

Use “Generate code” to get a random code or name one by yourself.

Feel free to customize the rest details for the discount. Once done, click “Save”.

Shopping Carts

Here is where you check users' cart information. Click on the “x items” button to view item details like this:

Orders

All the order histories are listed under “Orders”. Again, click on the “x items” button to view item details.

Settings

Leave your store details.

Check all available shipping methods. If “Pick up” is checked, do make sure you fill in your “Store address” above “Shipping method”.

Check all available payment method and select currency.

Finally, add prefix or suffix to your order ID if needed.

All these settings can be accessed in the “SHOP” JSON in the flow.

You can check this “Ecommerce Template” for inspiration after you setup your ecommerce system.

Show Products

In a Send Message step, find “Ecommerce”(1), “Product”(2) and then click “Edit”(3). Buttons added at area 4 will show under each product. And don't forget to put prompt at area 5 in case no product matched.

1. choose how many products to show from 1 to 10
2. select a sorting condition according to the user's choice
3. set a filter with as many conditions as needed.

Select “Add to cart” when the button is pressed. It is good to prompt what was added as well. Get information of the added product from the “SHOP” JSON variable.

Show Cart

Find “Shopping Cart” under “Ecommerce”, click “Edit”. Again, any button put at area 4 will display with every product.

The edit page of “showing cart” is similar to the “showing product”'s. But it's a bit trickier. Because a cart has to show every product for reviewing before checkout.

Select “Remove from cart” when the button is pressed. You might want to use a Goto step to go to the cart again to refresh, since there are quantities shown with products that differ from showing a static menu.

Select “Empty Cart” when the quick reply is pressed. Why not button? Because it can be redundant to have more than one empty cart following all products. Besides, “Empty Cart” is in the Action step, not a button action. So you will need to select an Action step as the next step to the quick reply.

Checkout

We've just talked about it's redundant to have an “Empty Cart” button with every product but why put multiple “Checkout”? This is because, actions in the Action step is processed at the backend while “Checkout” requires the frontend to open a website, the checkout page. So you can only call “Checkout” at a button.

If you don't want to put “Checkout” under each product, try adding one more text-type information after showing the cart:

When users checkout, a list of products will show with quantity and price first, following by an area to leave users' contact details:

Keep scrolling down you will see delivery options, coupon code and a summary of the order.

Finally, by selecting a payment option and clicking “Pay $xx.xx”, the page will be directed to Stripe.com. If you are under a text mode, you will see this:

Click “AUTHORIZE TEST PAYMENT” or “FAIL TEST PAYMENT” to test what will it look like when the payment succeeds or fails.

An order confirmation will be sent when payment succeed. Click on the confirmation to view the order detail.

"Buy" Only One Product

“Buy” is actually a feature having nothing to do with the built-in ecommerce system. After setting up your Stripe Integration, users can purchase one product (can be from your Stripe account) with one click on the “Buy” button with no ecommerce system setting at all.

The feature is suitable for ticket product without options or paying subscription fees, etc.

How to use System JSON Variable

There are several system field storing information about the ecommerce system. Usually, the system will tell you where to find according to data like this:

You can access them wherever you see “</>”:

System JSON - "SHOP"

“SHOP” stores all information about your ecommerce settings.

System JSON - "ORDER"

“ORDER” stores the user's last order. You only get an order after checkout.

System JSON - "CART"

“CART” stores the user's shopping cart.

System JSON - "SELECT"

When you choose “Select” when a button pressed, the selected item is stored in “SELECT”.

SELECT.product:

SELECT.sku: