Websites

WordPress

Add BlueBot’s “Text us” button to a WordPress site, or text people from its forms.

What you can do

Add BlueBot’s “Text us” button to every page of your site with one script tag.
Continue each visitor’s conversation in Messages from your own number.
Let Autopilot draft answers to the questions that come in through the button.
Text people who fill in a form made with any form plugin that can post a webhook.

Recommended
Built in
It works inside BlueBot with nothing else to set up.
Text Hook
A Text Hook is a BlueBot address the app posts its own webhook to. You map its fields to a recipient and a template, and each post becomes a text.
Text Hook in the docs
Zapier
BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
Zapier in the docs

Recipes

Set one up as written, or change it to fit how you work. The docs have the same recipes step by step.

01Built into BlueBot

Starts when

A visitor taps “Text us” on your site

Copy the website widget’s script tag from BlueBot’s dashboard.
Add it to every page through your theme’s header or a plugin that adds scripts.
A visitor types their name, number and question, and BlueBot texts them from your number.
The conversation carries on in iMessage, and you answer from your phone, your Mac or BlueBot’s inbox.

02Built into BlueBot

Starts when

A visitor’s question comes in through the button

Turn on Autopilot and give it your instructions and FAQ.
It drafts a reply to each new question from what you gave it, and hands off when it isn’t sure.
Read each draft in BlueBot’s inbox and send it, or let Autopilot send on its own once you trust it.

03With a Text Hook

Starts when

A form plugin posts its webhook

Make a Text Hook in BlueBot and copy its address.
In a form plugin that can post a webhook, add the address to your form.
Submit the form once, then map the name and phone fields from the payload BlueBot kept.
Write the template, and each submission becomes a text from your number.

The text it sends

Hi {{first_name}}, thanks for your message. This is Priya at Cedar Dental. I’ll text you back today about an appointment.

From your own number