The ones we hear most before teams sign up. If yours isn’t here, our support team replies within hours during business days.
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No, and we wouldn't suggest it should. The chatbot handles the repetitive stuff: service areas, callout rates, basic boiler questions, capturing job details, so whoever answers the phone has more time for the conversations that need a human. For commercial work or anything sensitive, you can take over the chat yourself on the Business plan.
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No. FastBots can let customers upload a photo so you can see it before you arrive, but it won't diagnose the repair or quote a fix from the image. That's still your job once you're on site, and that's exactly how customers expect it to work.
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Not directly. The chatbot captures the job details and the customer's preferred time, then emails the enquiry to you or your office. If you use Zapier or Make, you can push those leads into a job-management tool or spreadsheet automatically. For now the actual confirmation is done by a person.
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That's why training and guardrails matter. The bot answers from your own website, so as long as your pricing page is up to date, the quotes match. In Tune AI you can also tell it to never give a firm price without a site visit, and to always offer a callback for bigger jobs.
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The bot is on 24/7. You can set up keyword triggers: words like 'flooding', 'leak' or 'no heating', so the lead form shows straight away and the email that lands in your inbox is clearly marked as urgent. When you're up and reading messages, you know which one to ring first.
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Almost certainly. FastBots installs on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, GoDaddy, custom HTML and most other site builders by pasting one line of code. If your site was built by an agency, send them the snippet and they'll have it on in 10 minutes.
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Both, depending on how you set it up. Out of the box it's a chatbot trained on your site. Turn on live internet search or connect a Zapier or Make workflow and it behaves more like an AI assistant: gathering job details across the conversation, deciding when an enquiry needs to escalate to you, and pushing the captured lead into your CRM or spreadsheet once the chat ends.
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Most plumbers are up and running in around 5 minutes. Point FastBots at your website, let it crawl your services and areas pages, set the tone in Tune AI, turn on the lead form and paste the snippet into your site. After that you'll spend more time refining the answers than building anything from scratch.
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New FastBots accounts start with a 14-day free trial, not the legacy Free plan. It includes 1 chatbot and a one-time allowance of 200 message credits, with no credit card required; different AI models use credits at different rates. You can try the main chatbot features and integrations, except Reseller white-labelling and scheduled automation. When the trial ends, the chatbot goes offline and no test credits remain until you upgrade, while your dashboard, settings, previous chats and Contacts stay accessible. Paid plans start at $39/month. Existing users who were already on the legacy Free plan return to it after their trial.
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Yes. Every conversation is saved in chat history: you can search it, export it and review the questions the bot couldn't answer. That's usually where you'll find easy wins: a new service to add to the site, a price that needs updating, or an FAQ to drop into the bot's knowledge.