Product update · Knowledge
Multi-variant: answers from the right location, course or plan
For businesses with several similar locations, courses or plans: answers from the right one, compares across all of them, and asks which one when unclear.
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- Pro and Max · paid add-on
Every Hyperleap chatbot answers from your knowledge base out of the box. But some businesses have a particular kind of knowledge base: lots of near-identical pages that differ in only a few details. Think a clinic with branches in Plano and Round Rock, a school with a 6-month and a 9-month certificate program, or a gym with three membership plans. The hard part there isn't finding an answer. It's finding it for the right one. That's what the Multi-variant (locations, courses, etc) add-on is for.
What's new
With Multi-variant switched on, your chatbot:
- Answers from the right variant. "What are the hours at your Plano location?" is answered from the Plano page, not whichever branch page reads most alike.
- Answers across all of them. "Which branches are open on Sunday?" or "Compare the 6-month and 9-month certificate programs" draws on every relevant location or course, not just the first one or two it finds.
- Asks which one when it matters. "What are the fees?" with several courses gets "Which course are you asking about?" instead of a guess or a blend of two.
- Follows the conversation. If a visitor asks about Plano and then says "…and the Round Rock one?", the chatbot switches to Round Rock instead of staying on Plano.
How to use it
- Add the Multi-variant add-on to your Pro or Max plan.
- Keep each location, course or plan in its own document or web page in your chatbot's sources, and name each one clearly, for example "Plano clinic" and "Round Rock clinic".
- Open your chatbot in Studio, click Advanced Settings and stay on the General tab.
- Switch on Use Multi-variant (locations, courses, etc).
- Test it with questions about one variant, several, and none in particular, then publish.
Good to know
- It's a paid add-on on Pro and Max: $40 a month, and replies that use it count as two credits instead of one. See pricing for details.
- When you don't need it. One location, one product, or content that varies by topic rather than by variant. The standard knowledge base already handles that.
- Clear names help. The add-on tells your variants apart by their names, so give each source a name that says which location, course or plan it covers.
- Asking "which one?" is deliberate. When a question could apply to several variants and doesn't say which, the chatbot asks rather than guessing.
- Running several branches? See how a chatbot for multi-location businesses fits together.