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Checkpoint is used to automatically collect and save the user's data during the conversation between the bot & users (It includes not only user's responses but also custom information from users). Besides that, Checkpoint data can be sent to other CRM systems to manage them easily. Checkpoint is extremely useful for transactional data such as deals, bookings, or orders.

Set up Checkpoint

Please follow 2 sections below to complete setting up Checkpoint.

1. Define a Checkpoint

Defining the Checkpoint is to help you structure customer’s data more efficiently.

Now, assuming you’re designing a Chatbot for Coffee Shop, and Checkpoint’s feature will help you save and follow up the orders from your customer.

Step 1. Go to Bot Builder > Checkpoints to open the Checkpoints management page. Click on New Checkpoint or +Checkpoint to create a new checkpoint

Step 2. Set up Checkpoint Name (In this example, named Checkpoint "Coffee Order" to keep it simple)

Step 3. In the Checkpoint Fields, click on +Field to create Checkpoint fields and then you can define the Checkpoint fields by yourself as the example below:

The value can be customized when using the Save to Checkpoint action block in Bot Builder         

Step 4. Click on Create button to finish defining a Checkpoint. 

Step 5. In case you want to delete a Checkpoint, click on the Delete button

After creating a Checkpoint, you will use this Checkpoint in the bot flow to collect user responses and information. The idea is that you will drag and drop a Save to Checkpoint action into bot flow where you want your bot to capture user data. Here is a simple bot flow when you capture user responses and save it to Checkpoint:

Please follow these instructions below:

Step 1. Enable Expect User Response for the blocks that you want to collect user responses. In this case, capture the Product and Quantity Block in order to calculate the total cost in the next step.

Then add a Cost Variable in Flow Variables to set it as Total Cost (Assuming that the coffee price is 10$, so the total cost will be equal Quantity * 10)

Step 2. Drag and drop Save to Checkpoint action in bot flow where you want your bot to capture user data and select a Checkpoint as you want (You have already created a Coffee Order Checkpoint):

After selecting Coffee Order Checkpoint, the Total Cost and Status fields are automatically set to {Cost}$ and Pending value because you've set the default value for them. The rest fields are Product and Quantity are empty because you don't set the default value.

Step 3. Customize Checkpoint data to decide the information you want to capture for this Checkpoint. There are many types of variables, including User Attributes, Flow Variables, Bot Attributes, User Responses. You also be able to customize Checkpoint data as text as you want.

In this case, you're able to customize Offee Order Checkpoint data by setting Product and Quantity fields to {response.Product} (User's response to Product's Block) and {response.Quantity} (User's response to Quantity's Block)respectively:

Step 4. Test on Preview

When a conversation between your chatbot and user goes through Save to Checkpoint action, the system will save and collect all user's responses and variables have been set up in Checkpoint.

If your user's responses like as below:

We'll have the data in Checkpoint like this:

Go to Bot Builder > Checkpoints, you may see Checkpoints management page which contains all Checkpoints of your chatbot. Select a Checkpoint that you want to see more details on. There are two types of "Environment" when filtering Checkpoints:

You can edit and update the Checkpoint data as you want. Click on a specific Checkpoint to view its detailed information. As you can see from the example, a Checkpoint captures all of the user's responses about the order, including Product, Quantity, Total Cost, and Status.