General Q&A

Hi everyone,I'm trying to better understand how ManyChat counts contacts and how to manage my contact limit more effectively. I have a few questions: 1. How exactly are contacts counted? I deleted all my contacts and disabled all my flows, but I'm still seeing new contacts being added to my count whenever someone messages me on Facebook. Is this expected behavior? Does ManyChat automatically count anyone who sends a DM, even without active automations? 2. Contact cleanup automation: Is there a way to set up automatic rules or filters that periodically remove contacts who haven't engaged in X days? Or do I need to manually delete inactive contacts regularly? I'm trying to stay on the free plan while keeping my list clean and engaged, so any tips or clarification would be really helpful!Thanks in advance!

Hi, community. We’re having a weird problem: we have a keyword trigger for IG comments, “loyalty,” and it’s set for all comments on all posts. It’s working “sometimes,” but it’s also not firing for some people.I have not yet been able to spot a pattern here. This is an automation that’s been running smoothly for a few weeks at least. It successfully ran for the most recent comment, and it worked for me when I tested with my test account.I don’t see any common characteristic of the people it’s not working for. Some are triggering for the first time, others have been through this automation before on other posts.We have had 17 comments that should have triggered IG messenger responses over the past week. 12 have worked, 5 have not. And as I said, there is no obvious pattern.Appreciate any guidance. For this platform to be a part of our SM marketing, we need to know it’s working reliably!Thanks…Chris

Pessoal, as automações não estão sendo disparadas… alguma notícia aí? É problema geral? O que fazer! 

Yesterday, I had an issue with WhatsApp integration it was working and i got banned from Meta, but solved that through ticket with Meta directly. See thread:But today after Meta removed my ban, I linked my WhatsApp to ManyChat again and I can use whatsapp through Live chat but automations are not working. I have this banner displaying on my account of ManyChat. How can I fix this?

Hey everyone, long time MC user and looking for some feedback for our development of a physical product solution / integration with Shopify and Manychat.We rely on MC heavily and love its simplicity, but the ecommerce side of things (and not having it) is taking it’s toll. Instead of leaving, we’re building for it! One important thing I forgot to mention in the video is after serving the physical products, we can hop right back into another MC flow. Question is, is this viable? Would anyone use it? Appreciate it ahead of time!  

Hi!I’m new to this and I want to set up a giveaway automation. I used the preset Giveaway option and the condition set to make sure nobody can enter twice seems wrong to me. Once someone confirm their entry, They get tagged “started_giveaway”.So to me on the condition module it should be set to TAG is NOT “started_giveaway” so new entrants would go the green way YES and people who are tagged with “started_giveaway” would be NO and get a different message.The preset as shown below seems wrong to me. What am I misunderstanding?  

Hi Manychat’s Team, i want send to my customers link that connect their Instagram accounts to my Manychat profile. How do it?

When is the comment-to-DM feature for TikTok coming? Would be good to have it sooner. I have so much to do with it.

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My client asked me a messy request, fine. So I need to duplicate an automation and I already know about the option.But duplicating an automation only creates an empty shell! I have two dozen bubbles/cards/whatever and only the trigger and first bubble appear in the “duplicate”. This needs to be fixed!

As the title says, im unable to remove telegram bot from account. I have admin role (not owner), but the “remove” button isnt there for me. Then i created a second account, added a telegram bot and the button to remove does show up, but in the account i need to remove its just not showing. Me or even the person who created the connection cant see the button (we both have Admin role). What can I do? I need to solve this problem please help.

Hi manychat communityI am having an issue with some of my flows where the public reply to comments is not appearing. The setup is shown below so it should work on all posts after they comment either Timing or Pluto. I have 3 posts in total where I want this flow to work on. All of them mention the CTA of “Timing” in the video and are getting replies:For example in video one it seems to work fine: In Videos 2 and 3 however it seems to not be responding. Any reason why this is the case?   

If I only create the ad on Facebook and Instagram, does the automation work for the comments on the post, or do I have to create the post on Facebook and Instagram and then create the ad for the post?

I’m building a system in ManyChat where multiple live agents share conversations, but each agent can only handle one active chat at a time. Instead of relying on math operations or agents manually flipping their status, I’m using global bot fields as “slots” — for example, A_Slot_Free, B_Slot_Free, C_Slot_Free. When a user asks to talk to a human, the bot checks which slot is available, assigns the chat to that agent, and flips the slot to “false” so nobody else gets routed there. When the conversation ends or escalates, the bot flips the slot back to “true,” making the agent available again. Since I don’t have enough resource to purchase the inbox subscription, is there other way to solve this predicament.

HiWe just created an IG automation to send a link to a file (hosted on Dropbox) if anyone replies to a post with a trigger word. It works in that the reply DM is sent, but clicking on the button brings up a screen that has the “Redirecting” message, and nothing more happens. The bottom of the screen says “You’re being redirected to … [url of file]” so I can click on the URL to get to the file, but … shouldn’t the “Redirecting” screen actually go away at some point and redirect itself?Thanks!

Hello,I am from Iran and I am trying to activate the Trillion / VIP plan. However, I receive an error saying that my card is not accepted (I only have Iranian bank cards).Could you please let me know what payment options are available for users in Iran? Do you offer local resellers, vouchers, or any alternative methods of payment that I can use to activate my subscription? Thank you very much for your support. Best regards,Koohyar.rice 

I'm experiencing instabilities in the live chat and don't know where to ask for quick support.On the status page https://status.manychat.com/ there's a button to report a problem, but it takes you to a page for asking questions.I need to know where to report a problem where we need quick solutions. Like me, many people use Manychat for support on WhatsApp and other channels. If it's down or unstable, we lose our support flow.I'd appreciate it if you could check and let me know where I can quickly report a problem.Thank you.

I’ve searched posts on here and have not found the issue I am experiencing.   I have a trigger set up to send a reply as private with a button to press that gives permission to continue.  I’m using an Android phone to test.  I comment on an IG account with the trigger word.  The message comes back to my DM displaying the button just fine.  Pressing the button just echoes back and does not continue the automation.  I have tried with a direct button and as a quick reply.  I’ve gone through all the troubleshooting, permissions, refreshing connections, removing MC and re-adding.   

Como atribuir automaticamente ao primeiro atendente que adicionar a tag a um cliente? hoje eu tenho essa automação em anexo porém a conversa acaba sendo atribuída a segunda pessoa que adiciona a tag muita das vezes acontece isso  

Hey everyone! 👋I’m totally new to this world and spent the last few days building an automation in Manychat using a webhook to Make, so that I can send messages into a Telegram group.Quick backstory:We run a thrift shop, and whenever we post new stock on Instagram Stories, people either reply to reserve items or order directly for delivery. My idea was to create a chatbot that gets triggered when someone replies to a story → collects their info → and then sends it into our team’s Telegram group, so we can confirm whether the item is available or not.I almost have it working, but here’s the problem: when the requests show up in Telegram, there’s no way to tell which story/item the person is actually talking about. Ideally, I’d love to include the picture from the original Insta story in the Telegram message, so our team can instantly see what item the request is about.I’ve already spent hours trying (chatgpt, tutorials, videos, etc.), and I feel like I’m really close but also about to

I have about 12,100 active contacts and 8,879 inactive contacts in my ManyChat account (screenshot attached). But when I go to send a broadcast, it only lets me reach 73 people.I’m confused — what’s the real difference between active vs inactive contacts, and how do I make sure my messages go out to all of my contacts instead of just a small fraction?Do I need to re-engage my inactive contacts, change settings, or is there a platform limitation I’m missing? Any guidance would be much appreciated!  

so I want to have a clear vision on the contacts in manychat because every time you have a dm it should save as contact but i tried sending some manual dm to check that out and I see that is at 0.I know manychat charge per contacts per month and that every DM coming in should be a new contact automatically is that only from paid plan or even is it only from the automation when a dm comes and start with the automation?

I have an auto DM set up for a specific post of mine. It says “Comment the word pool” and i created the flow from scratch. It was working when I first tested it but, not it is not sending. I believe it can be due to two reasons:  I ran an IG boost on that post and it got denied so Meta is blocking auto Dm’s   I have been commenting TOO much from my test account Screenshots of automation are attached.  

Hi!I am keep getting the following error: “Muds the realtor already connected to Muds.Switch Instagram to continue with another account or request access from the owner of Muds.” Can someone please help me with the step by step guidance, think of me as a noob.  See the screenshot below:Thanks

Hello, I configured a simple automation here : So far, it works. It's the next step that doesn't work: When the person clicks on the "Envoie moi le lien" button, the "DM with the link" step is not triggered. I refreshed the permissions, checked that everything was in order via the help center, and it is. I'm a little desperate, could you help me?