How to select the chatbot best-suited for your business

Shehan Malik
Qodeify.com
Published in
2 min readApr 12, 2021

Choosing an ideal chatbot for your business is a tough task as it is an important decision as well as a long-term investment. That is why Qodeify, the developers of a highly successful AI chatbot decided to assist you in selecting what is the ideal chatbot for you. Read on.

Is your chatbot meeting the business needs and how is it going to be beneficial in the long run?

Always make sure to select a chatbot which is relevant to your business needs as the goals of each business is different for each other and all chatbots out there will not suit you.

Examine the current user experience of your customer and identify what bothers them. Try to overcome them with your customized chatbot.

Identifying why your business needs a chatbot at the first place and developing the ideal one is eventually going to lead your business to success.

Should your chatbot support multiple channels?

When your audience grows, everyone is not going to be available at a single platform. They are going to be scattered. You should make sure to provide your customers the best experience, irrespective of the platform they are using.

If you want to maintain the same standard when it comes to brand experience, make sure that the chatbot is optimized accordingly across all the platforms where your audience is at.

Does your chatbot know when to interact?

To stay ahead of the competition, you should use an intelligent chatbot. Your chatbot should be able to recognize, when is the right time to approach a customer without being inconvenient for them.

When a website visitor is browsing with no hassle, he/she might not need the assistance of a chatbot. But when the person is stuck somewhere, the chatbot should intervene and offer its help.

If the business setup is bit advanced and sophisticated, an AI chatbot could be the ideal solution as it uses both AI and machine language. An AI chatbot uses these two technologies to remember the conversations with customers and their preferences.

Ensure that your chatbot is backed by industry experience

There could be instances where your chatbot is unable to answer certain queries from your clients and the engagement with knowledgeable and conversational design experts is useful at those moments. They allow a seamless user experience behaving more like a human.

One more important thing here is that, you should decide together with your service provider on which development platform and the framework to use for your chatbot.

After going through all these you might feel that you need more consultation for this issue. Contact Qodeify as we are going to not only help you to choose one, but also will develop it for you.

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