Your Website Chatbot Is Talking to Nobody. The Dashboard Proves It
The first automation most Indian businesses buy is a chatbot for their website. It is also, almost always, the automation installed on the surface their customers visit least. Your buyers are on WhatsApp, on Google Maps, on Instagram, on the phone. Your website is where they go once, to confirm you exist, before messaging you somewhere else. The bot sits in the corner of that page like a…
Many Indian businesses invest in a chatbot for their website, but these bots often end up talking to nobody. The dashboard reveals this, showing few or no real conversations. The reason is that vendors sell the website widget first, making it easy to install without the need for WhatsApp Business API approval or Meta verification.
This leads to a disconnect between where customers actually reach out and where the bot is installed. For instance, an FMCG distributor receives orders via WhatsApp, not through the website. The distributor was pitched a chatbot that was installed on a website rarely visited by customers. To check whether the bot is actually being used, one should analyze the conversation log from the dashboard, filtering out automated greetings and the vendor's testing.
The true count of real conversations can then be compared to the volume of WhatsApp inquiries. If the website receives few visitors, it may be more efficient not to automate it at all, opting instead for a clear phone number for customer inquiries.
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