How do I create and collect Opt-ins? – Fastory

1. Why should I use an opt-in question. ?

Adding Opt-in questions in your experience will enable you to collect usable data, respecting the GDPR.

It allows to have the users consent for the use of their information such as email adresses or phone number.

We strongly recommend you to add an opt-in quesiton if you want :

Subscribe the user to your Newsletter;

Send commercial and marketing offers;

Share their information to your partners.

You’ll find their answers in Audience.

2. In the bot

Creating an opt-in question and adding answer choices

To read again the basics about creating a Bot, click here.

in the drop down menu, select Optin;

write your text in the dedicated field;

add as much choices as you want.

Our advice is to let the user choose what he wants. You can offer two answers, or one answer and a skip question option.

Adding answers

You can add answers to your question. For this:

click on the + button next to Add an answer;

write the text to be displayed;

in the drop down menu, select the Optin you want to associate the answer with, or create the Optin through the + button.

Allowing the user to skip a question

You can also allow the user to skip a question. You can activate this through a button at the bottom of the question settings. This way, the user will have the possibility to click on skip at the bottom of the Bot:

3. Finding the answers into Audience

Audience allows you, among other things, to collect opt-ins. You can learn more by reading the article on How can I get the data collected with the chatbot

Audience allows you to download a CSV file where you will find all the information:

go to Audience

in the table filters, go to Export

export the CSV with or without the participants' scores

Here you will find, for all your experiences, the answers to your bot's Optin questions, for the users who accepted the Optin.