General Q&A

Is there a way to add more than 3 buttons in a message? i need to present a lot of categories for the user to choose from and the quick reply isn’t working well for all users and they can also write whatever they want which can mess up with the flow. i need to find a way to restrict their selection to my options only.

Hello! I’m struggling to get Manychat to work when I have other tools managing Instagram DMs as well. Most help center articles talk about primary/secondary handover protocols, etc... but Meta has changed a lot since most were written.  Did you need to adjust anything under Advanced Messaging or Instagram conversation routing to get two to work at the same time, or if that impossible by design?

I will be running a giveaway on Instagram in honor of Small Business Saturday. The way people enter is to tag someone in the comments and they can tag as many people as they want in separate comments. I would love to set up an automation where they will receive a link to subscribe to my email list after they’ve commented, but I’m worried is someone comments more than once they will receive duplicate links for my email list. How can I avoid that?

I want to send everyone a message at once, how can I send it? It shows 0 subscribers in the target audience, but I have up to 2000 messages

Gostaria de saber em qual plano pago eu consigo usar as respostas automaticas em live 

I used to be able to just send the link and now its making me send an opening dm first. Can I disable that?

There is one Facebook and Instagram Page we can see on the list but can't connect somehow? Don’t even know whats the issue. 5 other accounts were able to connect. I have admin permission. Did anyone have the same problem?

Hello! I’m new using manychat and for now I only have the free plan (will get the paid plan soon) and so far I had to publish my posts and just then add the automations, which is not very easy for me since I work overseas for a company in Italy (10 hour time difference). I was wondering, with the paid plan, can I set my automations up even on a programmed post? I mainly post on instagram, facebook and tiktok. I didn’t see anything here about tiktok, but for instagram and facebook is that possible? And if so, is possible just if I program the posts through Meta Business Suite or is it possibile even if I use another app to program my posts? Any answers are welcome since I’m kind of lost here. Thank you so much!! 

Hi - I have been trying to cancel my Manychat subscription since May.  I’ve logged support tickets and still I keep getting charged every month.  Please cancel my account immediately.  

I’ve created a sequence so I make a bulk action of taking the Email System Field and applying the same info into a Custom Field (I want to be able to search emails via a Zap), but for some reason it won’t apply to action - does anyone have insights as to why that might be the case?

I’m currently trying to find a way where:After a user sends their response to my question with the instagram free keyword input after I ask a question on IG, obviously it getts stored and I save it as a custom value.BUT many times a user will reply with an additional 1-5 extra back to back messages as well.I want to be able to store all the separate messages as their own custom values inside manychat, so I’m able to properly let the system know the full context of their answer and check for keywords from each one.Although, I haven’t been able to find a way to get ManyChat to properly store multiple messages as seperate values when they’re getting sent back to back like it would be in real conversation practice. Does anyone have any ideas how I can make this work?I’ve tried, storing the first message as DM 1 ,then have the system check the last text input and if it changed to any value,and if it did: then s

Hi,I’ve been serching for a good while without finding the answer to this question.How do I set up this kind of automation:Instagram comment ---→ comment reply message with button ----→ same button click both trigger a website to open AND trigger the sending of a follow-up messageI’ve tried to experiment with the “addition action” opt-in alternative - but with no success.Very grateful for help!All the best,Siri

Is it possible to use a post or reel which I created a longer time before? It was something like April or May this year and it was quite popular so it would be good to use it

Hello everyone, I have a question: when a user visits the site, he enters some data, creates fbc and fbp, and when he clicks on the start button, he is transferred to a telegram bot, and when he presses the start command in this bot, this data that he entered from the site is transferred to manychatso this is how it works:the user visits the site for advertising, enters the data, goes to the telegram bot (works through manychat), where contacts are created for him, and it is necessary to fill in the data that he entered from the siteIs it possible to do this and how?

Why can’t I send photos and text at the same time? 

Hey! I’m wondering if there’s any way I can automate something that takes a lot of time.  IG plaftormI’m sending a free resource to my audience,  after they comment with a certain keyword they get the resource sent automatically via DM’s. What I’m looking to do is, if they don’t reply within a certain timeline, I want a message to be sent to them automatically so I won’t have to manually do that for +200 people/day. 

I'm new to ManyChat and have some questions about the auto-comment feature. Specifically: Are there any limitations on the number of auto-comments I can use per day or per account, either imposed by ManyChat or Facebook? I'm only interested in posting comments, not collecting contacts. How can I set a delay (e.g., a few seconds) between each comment to avoid getting flagged or banned by Facebook? Can I use ManyChat's auto-comment feature on posts within Facebook groups that I'm a member of?

I’ve had the recurring broadcast opt-in set up since it was released and it did work fine. Now in the past several weeks it doesn’t work. When someone clicks “get updates” nothing happens. I’ve contacted support but they haven’t fixed it. Something about being overloaded. Please can someone help? This is crucial for my business. Thanks!

Hi everyone , How are you ?  Good day to you  Actually , I am new to ManyChat and  I want to automate the process of responding to comments, so that if anyone comments on the post on my company page, they will automatically respond to the comment with another comment.How can this be done? Regards  

Hello  Since one month I have no story’s automatisation work. How can I do to fix this problem ? Thanks !  

hi, I would like my automation to stop at the 2nd step waiting for my signal.I'll explain how it's set up.WhatsappAt the second step the customer must wait for my response where I confirm the booking or not. I would like two buttons visible just for me, one with yes written and one with no written. If yes, the customer will proceed with 3 steps, while if no, they will have a different type of message.is it possible to do it? 

Hi! I want to create an evergreen automation to send people the link to my YouTube channel when I post a video, but it seems like users can only get an automation once. Workaround: Would they be able to get the same automation if I change the keyword for the evergreen automation each week? Or does it not work?

A client has two manychat accounts.  each is about 3k subs.  They want to merge the accounts so they have one main account.   Is this posssible? 

Hi Everyone,I'm looking to optimize my messaging budget and would love to get your insights on a challenge I'm facing. I have a substantial number of subscribers on my WhatsApp bot in my Manychat account. As many of you know, sending messages outside the 24-hour window on WhatsApp incurs additional costs.On the other hand, I also have a Telegram bot connected to the same business. Telegram offers the advantage of no time restrictions for message sending and is completely free.Given this situation, I'm considering strategies to encourage my WhatsApp subscribers to migrate over to the Telegram bot. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the best approach for this transition.What strategies would you recommend to make this shift smooth and effective? Has anyone else faced a similar challenge, and how did you handle it? Any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated!Looking forward to your suggestions and discussion.Thanks! 

Can someone help me, it is driving me crazy! I can set up the automations without any problem but now when I press ‘Publish’  my automation is ‘disabled’ and the automation is not working. They worked perfectly before, I changed nothing and refreshed connection several times? Is there a setting that changed? What can I do?Thanks for your help