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title: How to Build Your First Chatbot Flow
description: "To create a simple chatbot, you need to follow these steps to create a chatbot with waatee. It’s easy and handy. ## **Step 1: Choose the Platform** waatee supports multiple messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DM, and Telegram.…"
url: "https://docs.waatee.com/docs/how-to-build-your-first-chatbot-flow/"
updated: "2025-06-10"
category: Bot Channel / Flowbuilder
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# How to Build Your First Chatbot Flow

To create a simple chatbot, you need to follow these steps to create a chatbot with waatee. It’s easy and handy.

## **Step 1: Choose the Platform**

waatee supports multiple messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DM, and Telegram. For this guide, we will use **WhatsApp** as the example platform due to its widespread use and popularity for business communications.

Before you begin, ensure you have the following in place:

- **An active waatee account**.
- **A WhatsApp Business account** or any account (i.e Facebook, Instagram or telegram) connected with waatee.

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## **Step 2: Creating a simple chatbot within waatee**

After setting up your WhatsApp Business API account, the next step is to connect it to waatee:

- **Log in to waatee**: Access your waatee dashboard.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-1.webp)

- Go to the **Bot Manager** under the WhatsApp section and select the **Connected Bot**.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-8.webp)

- **Access the Flow Builder**: Navigate to the **Bot Reply** and then click on the create button.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-3.webp)

- **Set Up Keywords**: Click the initial bot trigger and configure it as your own. Define keywords that will trigger specific responses or flows.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-5.webp)

- **Add Components**: Use the drag-and-drop interface to add various components such as:
  - **Text Messages**: For sending simple text replies.
  - **Images, Audio, Video**: To make the conversation more engaging.
  - **User Input Fields**: To collect data like names, emails, or preferences.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-2.webp)

- Here I am using a simple text message to show you how the flow looks like.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-4.webp)

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-6.webp)

- **Save the flow.**

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-7.webp)

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## **Step 3: Testing the chatbot**

Once your conversation flow is designed, test the chatbot if it works.

![](https://docs-waatee.1wp.site/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-12-9.webp)

The bot is working. This is how you can create a simple chatbot with waatee.