Ecommerce Component

Last updated: 08th March, 2021

Introduction


Ecommerce component will allow you to reply with referring an ecommerce shop and its products as a carousel or generic reply. It has 1 input socket and 2 output sockets.

  • Input: Reply
  • Output: Next, Quick Replies

Next or QuickReplies!?

There is a condition between Next and QuickReplies. Using either Next or QuickReplies, you can connect to other components. But you can't connect to others from both.

Connections

Reply may get connection from one of the following components:

  • Start Bot Flow, New Postback, Text, Carousel, Facebook Media, Image, Video, Audio, File, Ecommerce, Generic Template, OTN

Next may be connected to one of the following components:

  • Text, Carousel, Facebook Media, Image, Video, Audio, File, Ecommerce, User Input Flow, Generic Template, OTN

Quick Replies may be connected to the following component:

  • Quick Reply - you may connect up to 11 QuickReply components to the Ecommerce component.

How to create

Let us see how we can create a quick-reply.

Dragging and Dropping

From the dock menu, drag the Ecommerce component and drop it on the editor at any place.

Adding Data

To add data to the Ecommerce component, click twice on the body of the Ecommerce component. It will open a sidebar on your right. Fill in the fields that you need.

Delay in Reply

If you want to show the typing gif image on the bot or delay in replying, then you can use those fields.