Botpress for Developers

How to Add Dashbot to Botpress for Chatbot Analytics

Botpress launched its new Learning Center this month! Plus, two new OpenBook webinars.

What's Happening at Botpress: May 2022

A new place to master Botpress, chatbots, and conversational AI.

Introducing the Botpress Learning Center

With Botpress and Smooch (now known as Sunshine Conversations), it's simple to build a chatbot that you can talk with over WhatsApp. Watch our video!

How to Quickly and Easily Build a WhatsApp Chatbot For Free

Culture & Updates

For Francois Levasseur, the Botpress team is “like a hockey team”. In our latest People of Botpress interview, Francois explains what he means by this and details his journey as a developer by highlighting some of his favorite projects that he’s worked on at Botpress.

The People of Botpress: Francois Levasseur, Software Developer

Botpress made two big releases this month — read on to learn more!

What’s Happening at Botpress: April 2022

Now in public beta, Botpress Cloud is the fastest, easiest way to deploy a chatbot.

Announcing Botpress Cloud

Botpress announces the first commercial knowledge-based NLU engine: OpenBook. OpenBook brings game-changing benefits to the world of chatbot development.

Introducing OpenBook from Botpress

A detailed comparison of Dialogflow ES, Dialogflow CX, and Botpress — with screenshots. Part two!

Botpress vs Dialogflow ES vs Dialogflow CX in 2022 [Part two]

Hackathons, Employee Highlights, Tutorials, and more! — Here is what's happening at Botpress in March 2022. ⬇️

What’s Happening at Botpress: March 2022

Challenging projects is what pushes Michael to do his best work. Find out what a regular day in the life of a software engineer looks like for him and why he chose to work at Botpress.

The People of Botpress: Michael Masson, Site Reliability Developer

A detailed comparison of Dialogflow ES, Dialogflow CX and Botpress, with screenshots. Part one!

Botpress vs Dialogflow ES vs Dialogflow CX in 2022 [Part one]

A look inside the 2nd annual Botpress Hackathon

What does an internal Botpress hackathon look like?

Learn how to add new languages to the Botpress NLU!

How to Add Languages to the Botpress NLU

The future of conversation AI is one that fascinates Sylvain. Here are his thoughts on the industry, Botpress’ outlook and what engineers and developers can do to be a part of this journey.

The People of Botpress: Sylvain Perron, CEO and Co-Founder

From the European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit, to the release of new case studies and how-to videos — Here is what happened at Botpress in February 2022. ⬇️

What’s Happening at Botpress: February 2022

2021 was a year of milestones for Botpress, including growing the team, completing our Series A, and enabling users like you in building the best chatbots possible. Thank you!

Here is what happened at Botpress in January 2022 ⬇️

What’s Happening at Botpress: January 2022 Recap

Once you're done with bot development, the next step is to share it with others. In this article, we show you how to integrate different messaging channels like Telegram, Messenger, Twilio, Smooch, Vonage, Slack, and Microsoft Teams with Botpress.

Integrating Different Messaging Channels with Botpress

The Botpress team hopes you had a great end to 2021, a happy holidays and a happy new year! Thank you for choosing Botpress and we look forward to this new year!

Here is what happened at Botpress in December 2021 ⬇️

What’s Happening at Botpress: December 2021 Recap

The People of Botpress is a series where we highlight our people and the great work they do by talking about life at Botpress. 

In this edition of The People of Botpress, we interview our Chief Financial Officer, Jean-Bernard Perron

The People of Botpress: Jean-Bernard Perron, Chief Financial Officer

Find out all about our November 2021 events, product updates, tips, tools, tricks and tutorials — All in one place.

What’s Happening at Botpress: November 2021 Recap

The People of Botpress is a series where we highlight our people and the great work they do by talking about life at Botpress. 

In this edition of The People of Botpress, we interview our Head of Engineering, François-Xavier Darveau!

The People of Botpress: François-Xavier Darveau, Head of Engineering

The People of Botpress is a series where we highlight our people and the great work they do by talking about life at Botpress. 

In this first edition of The People of Botpress, we highlight our Head of Customer Success, Nadine Ungerer!

The People of Botpress: Nadine Ungerer, Head of Customer Success

In this tutorial, we'll set up an instance of Botpress on a domain using proper encryption standards. You'll be able to access the Botpress Admin Panel from anywhere, and allow chatbot users to talk with your Chatbots. I've purchased the domain learnbotpress.com on Google Domains (you can use any Domain Name Provider), and we'll be hosting Botpress on AWS.

Deploying botpress on AWS

We welcome this guest blog from our community member, Danilo Limo! He recently posted in the Botpress Community Forum with a step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate Botpress with Twilio, using Whatsapp.

Guest Post: How to Integrate Twilio with Botpress on a Window environment

Find out all about our October 2021 events, product updates, tips, tools, tricks and tutorials — All in one place.

What’s Happening at Botpress: October 2021 Recap

Make sure to dig in to our latest chatbot tutorial where we give you a step-by-step guide on how to build your own Mars Rover Photography Chatbot!

Mars Rover Photography Chatbot - The Blog

Find out all about our August and September 2021 events, product updates, tips, tools, tricks and tutorials — All in one place.

What’s Happening at Botpress: August and September 2021 Recap

Building a bot together from scratch and have it integrate most of the basic functionality of Botpress. The series will cover installation, knowledge-based questions and answers, simple conversation flows, custom code, user input validation, and displaying media.

Building a Mars Rover Photography Chatbot - The Video Walkthrough

Use your own domain with HTTPS with botpress

How to setup HTTPS with Botpress

Learn how to create a chatbot that uses an action to call the Giphy API and provides a gif to the user.

Using Botpress Actions with the Giphy API

Learn how to start a Botpress instance with Docker Playground and get started on your first chatbot.

How to Deploy a Chatbot for Fun & Profit

Build impressive chatbots, without having to be an NLP expert. Botpress' NLU strategy supports you in creating a conversational interface.

NLP & the Botpress NLU strategy

Getting started with Botpress to build your first chatbot is easier than you think. Botpress removes the complexity of building a conversational experience that customers will love.

Getting Started with Botpress

Industry

This is a comprehensive article about natural language understanding. How it works, and the different applications it can have for businesses.

Natural Language Processing & Natural Language Understanding: In-Depth Guide in 2021

Not only does impeccable customer service put your business ahead with a great reputation, but it also has tremendous financial benefits. Customer retention and loyalty remain a massive factor in the financial success of your business.

How to Increase CSAT and Drive Customer Engagement with Digital Assistants

Today, I am thrilled to announce our $15M Series A financing round (Techcrunch) led by Decibel with participation from Inovia Capital and our existing investors.

Announcing our $15M Series A: Open developer stack for building Conversational AI applications

Why more and more companies adopt conversational AI? The answer is simple, the benefits, both qualitative and quantitative are incredible. From customer satisfaction to P&L bottom line, conversational AI has an impact across the board. Find out how!

The Roles and Customer Outcomes of Conversational AI

Bots and Conversational AI are often mixed up. It's understandable since the end result is in appearance the same. Here's how you can differentiate the two.

The Difference Between Bot and Conversational AI

Verticals

Discover how insurance companies leverage chatbots to improve customer service, collect data, cut down costs, and acquire new customers.

AI Chatbots in Insurance | Top Use Cases & Benefits

In this article, we dive into details about what an NLP chatbot is, how it works as well as why businesses should leverage AI to gain a competitive advantage.

Difference between a bot, a chatbot, a NLP chatbot and all the rest?

In the manufacturing industry, chatbots have a dual role. In this article we discuss their use cases in this sector as well as key benefits.

Chatbots for manufacturing industry | Benefits & Use Cases

Chatbots are crucial for financial companies who wish to carry out their digital transformation and gain a competitive advantage.

Top chatbots in financial services for 2021

Most Customers can be found on Facebook Messenger. Using Messenger as a channel for your chatbot is a must to reach your audience. Here is a quick guide of how you build this!

How to build a Facebook Chatbot to answer your customers

Smart algorithm-powered interfaces are multiplying and becoming more widespread across various sectors such as healthcare. Read our top chatbots for 2021

Top Health Chatbots for 2021

What exactly is BPA, and how can businesses go about implementing it? And what are the potential benefits of leaning into BPA? At Botpress, we’re excited about the potential of BPA and conversational AI.

Business Process Automation and Chatbots

We've a very simple yet effective 5 steps guide to help business leaders drive employee adoption for chatbots. Learn how you can do this!

Five Ways Successful Business Leaders Drive Employee Adoption of New Chatbot Solutions.

Conversational AI is a new technology and not everyone has the expertise to deploy a chatbot at scale. Learn more about the pitfalls of a chatbot project.

How to Overcome the Top Seven Risks of Your First Chatbot Project

There are two main categories of chatbots for banking, internal chatbots (used by employees)

Chatbot for Banking

Governments need chatbots for all the reasons that businesses do. They need chatbots...

Chatbots for Government

To stimulate imagination about the possible use case for chatbots, we wanted to brainstorm on some futuristic...

Chatbots for Drones

While security is important to every company, it is particularly important to the healthcare, financial and...

4 Essential Chatbot Security Requirements You Need to Know

Chatbot platforms apparently have a choice. Do they...

Chatbot Platforms: Developers and Business Users

A recent Capgemini survey of conversational interfaces provided some positive data...

Chatbot Personalization and Value

The main use case for chatbots for sales is currently qualifying leads. This sales model is well understood and is...

Chatbot for Sales

For a long time, there have been predictions of chatbots becoming ubiquitous in restaurants. The two obvious...

Chatbot for Restaurants

There are many ways that chatbots can be used by real estate agents or the participants in the real estate market...

Chatbot for Real Estate

Have you ever been stuck with an internal system? You knew what you needed to do, such as file an expense report...

Chatbot for HR

Young kids are digital natives. They use technology in a different way to those who were not raised before the iPad...

Chatbot for Education

There are many types of bookings, from booking an appointment at the hairdresser to booking a table at a restaurant...

Chatbot for Bookings

Chatbots have obvious applications for airlines and yet they have not been widely deployed by airlines. Airlines...

Chatbot for Airlines

Whether a given use case for any software is deemed feasible, depends on the economics...

Chatbot Business Models

The first set of analytics that is important to admins are generic usage statistics. Is the bot used, on what devices...

What is Chatbot Analytics?

If designed well, chatbots make it easier for companies to interact with their customers...

13 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Chatbots

Chatbots are already ubiquitous, at least in the home and on the phone…

Why Alexa and Google Assistant Are Not the Future for Business Chatbots

They can increase ROI and customer satisfaction when used in customer support...

A Framework to Think About the Future of Chatbot

As customer centricity grows in its importance across industries, enterprise companies must transform!

Adding Agility and Resiliency to Customer Care with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Conversational AI

RPA refers to software robots that run virtually and automate digital workplace tasks such as data entry. Discover more

What is RPA in Automation?

Chatbots are increasingly being incorporated into businesses and fast becoming the future of the Internet...

What Are the Best Chatbot Use Cases?

What is conversational AI? Discover from Botpress how conversational AI works and learn more about AI-based conversational tools and how they work with natural language processing to help human users through AI chatbots, virtual customer assistants and virtual employee assistants.

What is Conversational AI and How Does it Work?

It’s the fastest way to implement a conversational solution and create value for your employee and your customers.

How to Use FAQ Chatbots to Improve Your Customer’s Experience

In this post, you will find 5 keyboard shortcuts to make your life easier and your work in Botpress more productive.

Increase Your Botpress Productivity with Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is a very comprehensive list of the different tech initiatives deployed around the world to help fight COVID-19.

Tech for Good — How Technologies Are Used to Fight COVID-19

Here is a simple, but perfect toolbox for remote teams during time of uncertainty and even for the future.

The Perfect Toolbox for Remote Teams During Time of Uncertainty — and for the Future

Twenty-four hours never seems like enough time to do everything we want to do. And when it comes to business...

How Are Companies Using Chatbots?

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a thing of the future – it’s here and it’s now. From the virtual assistants that...

Chatbots in the Gaming Industry

Smart assistants have been around for quite some time now. They have been...

Smart Assistants and the Workplace of the Future

Imagine a chatbot that could perform tasks based on your customer or client’s location? In today’s world, we are...

Location-Based Chatbots

Have you ever met an employee that doesn’t take breaks, that doesn’t get sick, and that will never quit...

How Are Chatbots Changing the Workplace?

“Alexa, what’s in the news today?” “Google, what’s the weather like in Florida right now?” If you have ever asked...

Open-Source Smart Assistant

The largest segment of employees in the workplace is millennials. Within a year or so it is likely that millennials...

Millennials Want Smart Assistants in the Workplace

Smart assistants for the workplace are simply chatbots for employees. These chatbots allow employees to ask the...

Smart Assistants for the Workplace

A chatbot for retail can be extremely useful but at the same time needs to be used with caution for actual shopping...

Chatbot for Retail

One of the primary advantages of chatbots is that they don’t need to be installed. The reason they don’t need to be...

Chatbot for Events

One common use case for internal chatbots is tech support. This chatbot for help desk assists employees with...

Chatbot for Tech Support

People have discovered that they can multitask, specifically, they can listen to something...

The Rise of Audio and a Role for Chatbots

Continuing the series in which we brainstorm new applications of chatbot technology, today we look at games...

Voice for Games

Capgemini did a survey of more than 12,000 consumers. They predict that voice assistants...

Companies Cannot Afford to Not Use Chatbots

Even Jeff Bezos recognizes that the use case of chatbots for hotels is obvious as Amazon has launched Alexa for...

Chatbots for Hotels

The goal of a chatbot is to make machines understand humans. Up to now, software has not been good at...

Natural Queries for Chatbots

This link is an interview with Steve Jobs in 1981 along with a news report on computers...

AI Now Is Like Computers in the 80s

This is a light hearted look at the fact that reality is almost certainly a simulation...

Reality Is a Simulation and You Are a Chatbot

What Chatbot Authors Need to Know About the Natural Language Processing Algorithm

Read about the pros & cons to help you find the best open-source software for your needs.

13 Best Open Source Chatbot Platforms to Use in 2022

One use case for chatbots that is often overlooked is the internal chatbot for employees within a company...

Internal Chatbots

There is no doubt that chatbots are becoming increasingly important...

Chatbots for Telcos

As software development techniques and tools advance, we progressively move...

The Trend Towards Low Code Chatbot Platforms

To understand the value of using chatbots within healthcare it is necessary to consider the costs...

Chatbots for Healthcare

Imagine you want to create software to do a task. There are two main ways to do it and one intermediate way...

The Future of Big Data is Small Data

While many in the industry might argue that the “next big thing” in tech...

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