Botpress Live Chat Software
AI Supported Open-Source Chatbot Platform – WordPress of Bots
On-premise open-source chatbot software supporting AI and natural language processing to automate conversations and workflows. Build and deploy virtual employees.
Overview
With the advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, the demand for AI-based conversational chatbots has gained a lot of popularity and demand. And this is mostly because all the business wants to enhance their customer experience even when the business is offline.
Conversational chatbots have made this possible for businesses to give their customers the always available high-touch support they want.
Botpress is one of the most popular open-source chatbot builder software with built-in natural language processing. Botpress’s NLU technology makes it a step ahead of its competitors in the field like Botkit, Dialogflow, and Microsoft Bot Framework.
It makes it easy for non-technical people and businesses to create chatbots and design automated workflows for their business needs. And with the support of contextual awareness, Intents, and topic detection it understands what users say. Like whether they are asking a question or trying to perform an action.
Botpress comes with a lot of advanced features and has a very extensive plugin/module system with a thriving developer community. This makes botpress a very popular chatbot platform as the developer’s community is very actively developing plugins and addons for the platform. With so much popularity they even call it WordPress of Bots.
Botpress being an open-source chatbot builder has a very extensive SDK that can be used to integrate with other live chat platforms like Rocket.Chat. It can be used to design Front Desk, Technical Support, and Accounts and Billing automation workflows. This means you can support your customers in so many ways even when you are away.
If you are trying to automate your business workflows and want to enhance your customer experience Botpress is a must-try for you. It’s quick and easy to set up as well.
Requirements
- Hard Drive: Recommended 64 GB of free space or above.
- Memory (RAM): Recommended 4 GB or above.
Features
Following are the key features of Botpress
- Conversation Flow Manager
- Third party integrations
- Multiple language engines
- Content & flow separation
- Analytics
- Human in the loop
- Modular design
- Graphical interface
- Extensible
Installation Instructions
Getting started with Botpress is very easy. We build and distribute binaries of the latest stable version and we also have nightly builds of the master branch on Github.
Download
The latest stable binaries are available for download here . Alternatively, you may find all the versions and nightly builds in our public S3 Bucket .
Installation
To install Botpress, simply unzip the file you download somewhere on your computer. Make sure that your computer has at least:
- Memory (RAM): Recommended 4 GB or above.
- Hard Drive: Recommended 64 GB of free space or above.
- A 64 bits architecture
- The right to read/write to the directory and subdirectories where Botpress is located
Starting Botpress
To start Botpress, all you have to do is double click on the bp file in the directory you extracted Botpress to.
Alternatively, you can also start it from the terminal:
> ./bp
The first time you run Botpress, the built-in modules take some time to install. This will only happen the first time you run Botpress, subsequent runs will be much faster.
