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Abandoned Cart Recovery Bot for D2C Brands on WhatsApp

An hour after a shopper leaves items in their cart, the bot checks in automatically — "complete purchase," "need help," or "not interested" each lead somewhere genuinely different, so the support team only gets involved when a shopper actually has a real question.

Option 1

Build it as a Manual Bot

A TemplateTrigger fires automatically off the cart-abandonment event, then a three-way Quick Reply split routes shoppers into a checkout link, a support escalation, or a soft decline capture — all three reconverge at tagging and a closing message.

1.LogicTrigger1 hour after a cart is abandoned at checkout
2.CommunicationQuick Reply — branches into 3 paths: Complete Purchase / Need Help / Not Interested
3.LogicSet Tagcart-recovery-followup-done
4.CommunicationQuick Reply

START

Trigger

Fires On (Required)

1 hour after a cart is abandoned at checkout

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Quick Reply

Header (Optional)

Image

OR

Paste image URL…

Body Text (Required)

You left something in your cart! Would you like to complete your purchase?

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Buttons (Max 3)

Complete Purchase

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Need Help

9/20

Not Interested

14/20

IF COMPLETE PURCHASE

Quick Reply

Header (Optional)

Image

OR

Paste image URL…

Body Text (Required)

Here's your checkout link — your cart is saved and ready.

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Set Tag

Tag (Required)

cart-recovered

14/60

IF NEED HELP

Text Input

Prompt (Required)

Sure, what's holding you back?

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Team Assignment

Assign To (Required)

Support Team

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IF NOT INTERESTED

Text Input

Prompt (Required)

No worries — mind sharing why? (optional)

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Set Tag

Tag (Required)

cart-abandoned-final

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Set Tag

Tag (Required)

cart-recovery-followup-done

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Quick Reply

Header (Optional)

Image

OR

Paste image URL…

Body Text (Required)

Thanks for letting us know!

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Advanced settings

Option 2

Build it as an AI Agent Bot

The assistant works through the actual reason a shopper hesitated (sizing doubt, shipping cost, comparing prices) in the same conversation, often recovering the sale on the spot instead of just resending a checkout link.

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D2C E-commerce (Shopify/WooCommerce)

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Hi! Noticed you left the Air Pro earbuds in your cart — anything I can help with?10:00 AM
yeah was debating, is 2999 the best price10:00 AM
It's our standard price, but since your cart has been sitting for an hour, I can offer you a one-time 10% discount to complete the purchase — ₹2,699 instead.10:00 AM
oh nice, that helps. does it still have the same warranty10:00 AM

Unlike the manual bot above, this isn't one node in a flow — it's a separate AI assistant mode that takes over the entire conversation and replies in natural language until it's switched off.

Which fits this use case?

Manual bot: consistent, low-cost cart recovery outreach across every abandoned cart, but "Need Help" just routes to a support queue with no immediate answer — a shopper with a quick pricing or delivery question may lose interest before someone replies.
AI agent: resolves the actual hesitation (pricing, delivery time, warranty) immediately, and can even offer a one-time discount to close the sale on the spot — often recovering the cart in the same conversation.
Best fit here: manual bot for scaling cart-recovery outreach across every abandoned cart at near-zero cost; AI agent for higher-value carts where resolving a specific objection immediately meaningfully increases recovery rate.

Frequently asked questions

How does the bot know a cart was abandoned?+
A TemplateTrigger fires a fixed time (1 hour here) after a cart-abandonment event from your store's checkout, typically via a webhook or Integration node connected to Shopify/WooCommerce.
Does the bot always offer a discount to recover the cart?+
Not in the manual flow shown here — that's a judgment call the AI agent version can make in context; a fixed flow would need an explicit discount-offer step added if you want that behavior guaranteed.
What happens to a shopper who says "Not Interested"?+
They're asked one optional soft feedback question, tagged cart-abandoned-final, and the flow ends politely — not repeatedly nudged.
Is this available on Instagram and Messenger too?+
Yes — the same TemplateTrigger → Quick Reply branching model runs identically on WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and Messenger.

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