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  • 👋Welcome to Operator AI
  • Getting Started
    • 🚀Quickstart Guide
    • 🔌Connect Your Channels
    • 🎯Go Live With Operator
    • 📈Post-Launch Best Practices
  • Core Features
    • 🔄Flows Overview
    • 🧠Building Your Knowledge Base
    • ⚙️Automations Overview
    • 🕒Hours & Offline Mode
    • 💬Fallbacks & Default Replies
    • 📥Unified Inbox & Agent Handoff
  • Conversation Management
    • 👥Users and Roles
    • 🏢Departments
    • 🏷️Tags & Organization
    • 📝Internal Notes
    • 🤖Smart Replies
  • 💬Saved Replies
  • Integrations
    • 🔗Zapier Integration
    • 💬Slack Integration
    • 📧Email Marketing
    • 📱WhatsApp Business API Setup
    • 🔌Webhooks and API
  • Best Practices
    • 🛤️Designing Effective Flows
    • 🌱Using Automations for Growth
    • 📊Monitoring Metrics and Optimization
    • 🗣️Conversation Design Tips
  • Troubleshooting
    • 🛠️Common Connection Issues
    • 🔍Conversation Handling Errors
    • 🔄Flow Troubleshooting
    • 💬Fallback Handling Problems
  • 🔧API & Webhook Issues
  • FAQ
    • ❓General Operator AI Questions
  • 📡Channel-specific Limitations
  • 💳Billing and Pricing
  • 🔓Data Privacy and Security
  • API Reference
    • 🛡️Authentication
  • 📚Available Endpoints
  • 🔗Webhooks Overview
  • 🧩Example API Requests
  • 🚫Error Codes and Handling
  • Affiliate Program
    • 📢 Operator AI Affiliate Program
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  • 🔄 What Are Flows?
  • 🛠️ Core Flow Components
  • 📋 Flow Best Practices
  • 🔥 Example Use Cases
  • 🛟 Need Help?
  • 🎯 Next Step
  1. Core Features

Flows Overview

Operator AI Flows let you design smart, automated conversations that guide users, capture leads, resolve issues, and drive action — all without human intervention.


🔄 What Are Flows?

Flows are visual, step-by-step conversation maps inside Operator AI that:

  • Guide users through lead capture, booking, support triage, FAQs, and more.

  • Automate user journeys across Web Chat, SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram, and other channels.

  • Trigger based on user actions, keywords, inactivity, or Automations.

✅ Think of Flows as building blocks for customer engagement.


🛠️ Core Flow Components

Component
Purpose

Triggers

Define how and when a Flow starts (e.g., new conversation, keyword, time delay).

Messages

Deliver text, images, buttons, or quick replies to users.

Forms

Capture user details like name, email, phone number.

Branching Logic

Guide users based on their choices (e.g., "Are you a new or existing customer?").

Agent Handoff

Escalate conversations to live agents at any point.

Fallbacks

Define what happens if the user goes off-script or provides unexpected inputs.

✅ Modular components allow powerful, flexible journey design.


📋 Flow Best Practices

Tip
Why It Matters

Keep Flows short and focused

Users complete shorter journeys more often.

Use quick replies and buttons generously

Makes choices easier for users.

Always offer a fallback or "Need help?" option

Prevents users from feeling stuck.

Test every branch of your Flow manually

Catch dead-ends or confusing logic early.

Personalize Flows per channel if needed

Tone and journey structure may differ across SMS, Web, or Instagram.

✅ Great Flows = higher engagement + better outcomes.


🔥 Example Use Cases

Use Case
Example Flow

Lead Capture

Greet visitors → Ask qualifying questions → Collect email and phone number.

Appointment Booking

Offer available slots → Confirm details → Send reminder via WhatsApp or Email.

Support Triage

Ask "What can we help you with?" → Route based on department/topic → Solve or escalate.

Customer Onboarding

New signup → Share helpful links, videos, resources automatically.

Feedback Collection

After conversation closure → Trigger a survey or review request automatically.

✅ Flows power every key interaction from prospect to customer success.


🛟 Need Help?

  • Follow the step-by-step Flow Building guides inside this documentation.

  • Contact support@heyoperator.ai if you want help designing your first Flows.

  • Your Success Manager can also review your Flows for optimization ideas.

✅ We're here to help you build conversations that convert.


🎯 Next Step

👉 Continue to Building Your Knowledge Base →

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