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AI After-Hours Support Chatbot for Your Website

Answer routine questions, collect requests for follow-up, and let customers book a time to talk — during evenings, weekends, and holidays.
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What is an AI after-hours support chatbot?

An AI after-hours support chatbot uses your business information to answer questions and capture requests when your team is unavailable.

  • Provide answers. Explain policies, services, and common troubleshooting steps outside business hours.
  • Capture requests. Collect contact details from customers whose questions need your team.
  • Set expectations. Share your published support hours and response policy.
  • Prepare follow-ups. Keep the conversation available so your team can pick up with context.

Skills for your after-hours support chatbot

Give customers a useful next step, even when nobody is available to reply personally.

Skill
How it works
Lead form
Collect a customer’s name, email, or phone number for a later response. Choose when the form appears and keep submitted details linked to the conversation.
Action buttons
Link customers to a help guide, account page, request form, or contact channel. Let them continue with a self-service option while your team is away.
Human handoff
Show how to reach your team when a request needs personal attention. Configure email, phone, or WhatsApp options, and use your chatbot’s instructions to explain the published availability of each channel.
Booking
Let visitors arrange a future consultation or support session through Calendly or Cal.com. They can choose a time in chat without waiting for your office to reopen.
Follow-up message
Send a message after a pause in the current chat to ask whether the customer needs more help. Customize the delay and wording to invite further questions or a callback request.

Lead form

How it works

Collect a customer’s name, email, or phone number for a later response. Choose when the form appears and keep submitted details linked to the conversation.

Action buttons

How it works

Link customers to a help guide, account page, request form, or contact channel. Let them continue with a self-service option while your team is away.

Human handoff

How it works

Show how to reach your team when a request needs personal attention. Configure email, phone, or WhatsApp options, and use your chatbot’s instructions to explain the published availability of each channel.

Booking

How it works

Let visitors arrange a future consultation or support session through Calendly or Cal.com. They can choose a time in chat without waiting for your office to reopen.

Follow-up message

How it works

Send a message after a pause in the current chat to ask whether the customer needs more help. Customize the delay and wording to invite further questions or a callback request.

Create your after-hours support chatbot for free

  1. 1. Enter your website address
  2. 2. Customize your chatbot
  3. 3. Add it to your website

Set up your chatbot for after-hours support

  1. Start with answers customers can use on their own

    Enter your website address to prepare your chatbot’s initial knowledge and profile. Add help pages, FAQs, and instructions that cover common questions, such as delivery terms, setup steps, or how to request a return.

  2. Add your support hours and contact details

    Include your team’s working days, hours, and time zone in the knowledge base. Add holiday changes and your usual response policy when relevant. Keep this information current so the chatbot can explain when human support is available.

  3. Define which requests need your team

    Write instructions for cases such as billing disputes, account changes, or questions missing from the knowledge base. Ask the chatbot to explain the next step and offer contact collection or the appropriate support channel. Set clear boundaries around response-time promises.

  4. Make the chatbot’s role clear

    Choose a name, appearance, and greeting that identify it as your website assistant. For example: “Ask me a question, or leave your details for our team.” Make it easy to understand that automated help and personal support have different availability.

  5. Review conversations when your team returns

    Read the questions customers asked and the contact details they submitted. Use that context to prepare replies and decide which requests need attention first. Add missing answers to the knowledge base.

  6. Notify your team in Slack

    Connect Slack if your team wants notifications about new chats to stay aware of incoming conversations in a tool they already use.

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