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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Yes. FastBots is added with a small embed snippet that drops into your theme or runs through a script-injection plugin. It sits as a floating chat widget on top of your store and works on any theme — Storefront, Astra, Flatsome, Divi or a custom build.
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Not natively. The Shopify integration is the one platform where FastBots can read live store data; for WooCommerce, the bot answers from trained content (product pages, policies, FAQs). For live order updates, direct shoppers to their account page or use a Zapier/Make workflow to route the enquiry to your team after the chat.
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No. FastBots is an information, support and intake tool. It can answer questions and capture details — like a name, email and what the shopper wants — but it doesn't take payments or modify orders. Checkout still happens through your WooCommerce store.
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You set a fallback message — something like "I'm not sure on that one — can I take your email and have someone from the team get back to you?" The bot then offers a lead form, captures the details and emails your team. You can also see unanswered questions in Chat History and add them as Q&A entries.
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FastBots has native channel connections for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Slack. The same chatbot, trained on your store content, can reply across those channels — useful if a lot of your pre-sales enquiries come through DMs.
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Yes — Live Chat is available on the Business plan ($89/month) and above. You can set availability hours and the conditions under which the bot offers human handover (for example, after a few unanswered questions). The agent sees the conversation history and replies in real time.
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On Business plan and above, Auto Retrain re-crawls selected pages on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. You can also retrain manually from the Links / Docs page whenever you make a big change — for instance, after launching a sale or updating your returns policy.
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There's a free plan (1 chatbot, 50 messages per month, no credit card needed) so you can test it on your own store. Paid plans start at $39/month for the Essential plan, which is enough for most small WooCommerce stores. Live Chat, Auto Retrain and Email Replies are on the Business plan at $89/month.
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Yes, and that's the right call. You set the welcome message and tone, and most store owners introduce it as an assistant that can answer common questions and pass the rest to the team. Honesty keeps trust — and customers don't mind a bot if it actually helps.
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FastBots is GDPR-compliant and uploaded data isn't used to train OpenAI models through the API connection. You can make a chatbot private, restrict it to your domain and add password protection. Treat the bot as a customer-facing assistant — don't paste internal staff documents into it unless they're meant to be answered from.