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Manychat + chatGPT - data collection.

  • April 20, 2026
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Jakub

**Goal:**
I connected ManyChat with ChatGPT (GPT-4.1) using the native ChatGPT Actions integration to automate customer responses for a fitness center (Golem Club) via Facebook Messenger. The bot should answer questions about pricing, memberships, locations, rules, and promotions.

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**Architecture I built:**

- **Bot Fields** — knowledge base split by topic: `faq_prices`, `faq_membership`, `faq_rules`, `Locations`, `Operators`, `promotion`, `support`, `age`
- **User Fields** — `user_question` (customer's question), `gpt_answer` (GPT's response), `need_human` (flag for live agent handover)
- **Flow** — Default Reply trigger → welcome message → waiting for customer input → ChatGPT Actions → send response back to customer

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**Problem I'm facing:**

After the welcome message "Good day" the bot immediately sends a second message showing `{{cuf_14504907}}` instead of waiting for the customer to type their question.And after sending message I got {{cuf_14505348}}

It seems the Data Collection block is sending the `user_question` field tag instantly as an empty/broken bubble — before the customer has typed anything. The "Contact's reply" mapping to `user_question` field appears to be correctly set up.

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**What I've already checked and confirmed working:**
- ChatGPT Actions setup (model, system prompt, save result to `gpt_answer`) ✅
- Final Send Message block with `gpt_answer` ✅


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**Question:**
How do I properly set up the Data Collection block correct?

 

Thank you for your help

 

4 replies

cata_rendon
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  • April 20, 2026

Hi ​@Jakub , in the box of your welcome message, your second message includes the CUF “user question”, that is why when testing it is showing you the {{cuf_14504907}} which I guess is empty as the user has not typed any question yet. You dont need to include that CUF as a message, only use it for the External Request.

Hope that help

Cheers!


Jakub
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  • April 20, 2026

@cata_rendon thank you. I removed CUF in the message blok. But it is still not working. This is how the flow looks like now. 

 


Jakub
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  • April 20, 2026

@cata_rendon I added a normal question, not a CUF. But thre is still some error. I am asking if there is any discount for student. It should know the answer.

 


cata_rendon
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  • April 20, 2026

Hi ​@Jakub, you need to capture user´s question and saved it into a CUF before you can send it to GPT.

Please see the instructions below.