How to use Fleep.business

To get started, go to the bot you created. If you haven't created a bot, launch @FleepBot and select Fleep.business. Follow the instructions you'll see.

When the bot has been created, you will see the following menu:

Settings overview (screenshot above)

In this section we will briefly describe each section in the Settings menu, and then take a closer look at all features.

Menu: create menus, sections, and subsections (buttons inside buttons).

Welcome message: customize the welcome messages received by new users.

Mailout: targeted messaging to users.

Statistics: data on users, buttons, and traffic.

Autoreplies: set up automatic responses to user questions.

Commands: create your own command (/command).

Store: connect the cash register and create a product.

Subscription verification: verify the subscription to the channel to access the bot or section.

Links: create a link that opens not the welcome message, but a specific section in the bot (deep link).

Data: download your user base in different formats.

Feedback settings: a set of functions for receiving and processing messages from users.

Subscription payment: a section where you can pay for the use of the service.

To add buttons and create sections and subsections in your bot, click on the Menu button. This is how this section looks like:

By default, you have one created menu: the Main Menu. This is the first menu with buttons that is assigned to the welcome message in your bot. After starting your bot, the user sees this very menu. You cannot delete it, but you can change it.

How to create new menus?

Click on the plus button to add a new menu and assign a name to it.

Later on, you can attach the created menu to any button, command or autoreply, thereby creating internal sections in the bot.

Below you will see an example of how it works.

How to add buttons to the menu?

Let's take the Main Menu as an example and add the first two buttons to it. Click on the required menu, then click the plus button:

An interface with various types of buttons will be displayed (see screenshot below).

You can add five different types of buttons: regular, inline, contacts, polls, or geolocation. They are described in the screenshot below.

Important: Regular and Inline buttons cannot be used in the same menu. All other buttons are easily combined with each other.

What is the difference between a Regular and an Inline button?

We'll explain it by giving an example (see screenshot below).
A regular button is a button in the bottom menu, below the dialog box.
An inline button is a button in the dialog box, right below your posts.

Creating Inline buttons

Let's go back to the section with the list of our menus and add inline buttons to the menu titled "1^st type products".

Inline buttons are buttons in the dialog box below the messages. When adding such a button, you will see three options:

Clickthrough means that clicking on this button will open a link (to a website or channel).

Replacing the current message means that clicking on this button will remove the current message seen by the user and open another one (which can also be customized). You can insert a text, a media file, a product and attach a new menu level (one more section) to such a message.

Sending a new message is similar to the previous option; the difference is that the old message will not disappear, but will be displayed higher in the dialog box, and the user will receive your new message, into which you can insert a text, a media file, or a product and attach a new menu level (one more section).

See an example:

How to create Contact, Location, and Poll Buttons?

The principle remains the same: select the required menu where you want to create buttons, click on the plus button, and select the required type of buttons.

The Contact, Location, and Poll buttons do not require any settings other than the name of the button itself.

When the user clicks on Contact and Location, he/she will be requested his/her phone number and location (this data will be stored in your database, which is downloadable). When the user clicks on the Poll button, he/she will be able to share his/her poll with you.

How to attach a product?

Note: first you need to connect the cash register to the bot and add your products to it. You can do it in the Store section (see instructions for connecting cash registers and products).

If you have added at least one product to the bot, you can insert it into a button, auto-reply, command, or a quick reply.

If you see the "Attach Product" option anywhere, it means you can insert a product.

Below you can see the product added to the Inline button:

Here you can create or edit interactive welcome messages.

A welcome message is a message automatically sent to the users when they open your bot.

Response to the first message is an automatic response sent by the bot to the first message received from the user.

What variables can be used in messages?

You can teach your bot to address users by name, tell them exchange rates and much more. To do this, insert certain structures into the message body.

Example: if you insert the structure %name% into the text, the bot will address the user by name. For example, "Hello %name%!" will turn into "Hello Eugene!" (the name will be automatically taken from the username).

This function can be used not only in the Greetings, but also in any other part of the business bot, thereby making it more personalized and flexible.

Full list of variables

%name% - username
%id% - user ID
%date% - date of user registration in the bot in the following format: "29.04.2020 19:05:12"
%h% - current hour, Moscow time (two-digit number)
%m% - current minute, Moscow time (two-digit number)
%s% - current second, Moscow time (two-digit number)
%day% - current date, Moscow time (two-digit number)
%month% - current month (two-digit number)
%year% - year (four-digit number)
%usd% - dollar to ruble exchange rate
%eur% - euro to ruble rate
%btc% - Bitcoin rate in dollars
%eth% - Ethereum rate in dollars
%bnb% - Binance Coin rate in dollars
%ada% - Cardano rate in dollars
%doge% - Dogecoin rate in dollars
%xrp% - XRP rate in dollars
%ltc% - Litecoin rate in dollars

In the Newsletters section, you can send configurable newsletters to your users.

There are 5 types of newsletters:

All users – every user who interacted with your bot will receive the newsletter.
New only – mailing to those who have never received your newsletters before.
Newsletter by buttons – mailing to people who clicked on certain buttons.
Inactive users – mailing to those who started your bot and did not perform any further actions.
Mailing by UTM tags – mailing to users who came through links with certain UTM tags.

You can attach any menus, media files and texts to newsletters.

The Statistics section contains the indicators of your bot.

Clicks statistics: the number of clicks on buttons in your bot.

Audience analysis: get latest data on the number of active users.

UTM tags

/traf command: opens a section where you can create links to the bot with UTM tags. These links will help you track the efficiency of your traffic sources.

To do this, you need to create a link with a unique identifier, for example:

https://t.me/FleepSupportBot?start=identifier, where identifier is the unique identifier of the advertising platform.

Tip: name the parameter by the name of the site where you are going to advertise. This will make it easier for you to navigate the statistics. All users will be recorded by this identifier, so you will understand which user came to you from which site.

For example:

To track traffic from VK targeting: https://t.me/FleepSupportBot?start=targetingVk
To track traffic from Instagram: https://t.me/FleepSupportBot?start=instagram

etc.

You can see the statistics by each parameter in the "Statistics" section or by entering the /stat command.

In this section, you can teach the bot to respond to pre-planned phrases for you.

To set up Autoreply, send a word or phrase that your bot should respond to with an automatic reply. The bot will automatically respond only to the exact same phrase or word in the user's message.

It is important to understand that the bot recognizes only exact matches of words and phrases.

Examples of successful Autoreplies:

"How much is advertising?"
"How much is consultation?"
"What is the dollar rate?" - here in the response you can use
Variables
"How to order a product?"
"How much is the delivery cost?"
"I want to participate!" - for contests.
etc.

You can send a text, a media file or a product as an automatic reply.

In this section, you can create and configure commands for your bot. The list of commands is called by typing a slash (forward slash) / in the message input line.

How to add a command?

In the Commands section, click on the plus button, then:

1. Give a name to the command
2. Add a short description for the command
3. Customize the message that will be sent in response to this command. It can be a text, a media file, or a product.

In this section, you can connect your bot to the cash register and set up the acceptance of payments for various products in your bot. First, set up the cash register and then proceed to the products.

How to connect the cash register to the bot?

1. Open the Store – Cash Register section and click on the plus button.
2. Enter the name for the cash register. This name is required for convenience, only you will see it.
3. Now, send the token of your payment system (your acquiring).

Where can you get a payment system token?

- Go to @BotFather and enter the /mybots command there
- Select your business bot and click on the Payments button
- Select the cash register you are working with and connect it according to the internal instructions
- When the cash register is connected to the bot, your payment token will appear in BotFather (above the list of cash registers).
- Send this payment token back to your business bot.

When the payment token is sent, the cash register is ready to accept payments.

How to add a Product?

1. Open the Store – Products section and click on the plus button.
2. Select the cash register, which will receive payments for this product.
3. Enter the name of the product (max. 32 characters).
4. Enter a short description of the product (max. 255 characters).
5. Add a picture of the product, if any. This step is optional, but generally people like to see what they are paying for.
6. Select the currency for payment acceptance.
7. Lastly, indicate the number of items in the receipt: the cost of the products, delivery and discount. It is possible to indicate the cost of products only.

Here, you can change the name, description, cash register, currency, cost, or add a picture. That is, everything that you set up when creating the product.

Request Details of the Buyer

When selling a product, you can ask buyers to fill in their personal information: name, phone number, email, and delivery address. To do this, click on the appropriate buttons: Name, Phone, Email, Delivery address. If at least one of these options is enabled, without filling in the appropriate information, the buyer will not be able to buy your product.

Message after payment: - this button enables customizing the text displayed to the buyer upon successful purchase.

Statistics: here you can see the sales figures for your product.

The latest feature, which allows you to lock the bot for unsubscribed users of your channel/chat. This can be used for contests, to attract customers to your sites, and much more.

When you open the "Subscription verification" section, you will see two options:
1. Form customization: a form requesting to subscribe to channel/chats.
2. Closed sections: configure which sections in the bot you want to close.

Form customization

First, you need to customize the form displayed to the user (screenshot below).

Subscription notification: a subscription request message displayed to the user.

Subscription confirmation button: enter the name for the button that the user will click on after subscribing.

Channels 1/2: add here the channels to which you wish to take the users.

View Form: the bot will display the current view of your form.

You can close specific buttons, commands, or autoreplies in your bot. To access them, users will need to subscribe to your channel or chat.

You can create a link that will start your bot by clicking on a specific button or command. To create such a link, go to the Links section and click on the plus button.

After you have selected the section to which the link will lead, you will only have to come up with the ending of this link. It should be one word without spaces.

Example: if you send the word "word" your link will look as follows: https://t.me/FleepSupportBot?start=word

Here, you can download the full list of your users, including those containing phone numbers and email addresses of users who at least once entered these data in any message.

Choose the preferred file format (xlsx or cvs) and click on "Get data".

Here, you will find features that help receive and process messages from users.

New chat: connect the bot to a private chat so that all messages are forwarded there. You can add employees to it and create a full-fledged technical support.

Instant answers: set up instant response to frequently asked questions. You can instantly respond to users with ready-made responses with a single click.

Permissions: configure what types of messages can and cannot be sent to users in the bot. You can ban any types of messages.

Notifications: set up "button/command/autoreply-pressed" notifications. You will be able to respond to each of these notifications as you would to a regular incoming message.

Signature: set up a signature for incoming messages visible only to you and your administrators. For users, you can show/hide the first name, last name, @username, ID and link to the user.

Quick Actions: allows you to promptly get information about the user or block him/her, using the buttons under the incoming messages.

New chat. Connecting the bot to the chat

This feature is designed for several people to respond in the bot at once. It is done as follows:

1. Create a new private chat.
2. Add your business bot to it (you do not have to assign the administrator rights to it)
3. Receive a system message in the chat that the chat is now connected to the bot and all messages from the bot will be forwarded to the chat.

Thus, several people will be able to answer user questions and you will be able to monitor the responses of your employees.

How to reply to incoming messages?

To reply to an incoming message from a user in the chat (or in the bot), use the Reply function located in the upper right corner or by clicking on the message.

Here, you can choose the service plan that works best for you in order to get the most out of the Fleep.business service.

You can read more about each service plan here: https://en.fleep.bot/pricing-for-fleep-business

To make the most of the business bot, you can use the following commands.

/guide - instructions for all features (what you are reading right now)

/help - technical support, command help, useful links

/pay – subscription payment

/stat - data on users, buttons and traffic

/traf - information on how to track sources of incoming traffic to your bot

/ban - send this command in response to a user's message to ban him/her in the bot. This is useful against spammers.

/unban - used in a similar way to unban a user in the bot.

/check - check what your welcome message looks like.

/info - send this command in response to a user's message to get statistics on that user. The Quick Actions feature (see above) performs the same task. This command is not visible to the user.

/del - for delete your messages

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