✉️ Big News: Pickaxe Chatbots Can Now Reply by Email!

This is huge! You can now deploy your Pickaxe chatbot via email.

Users can send questions to a specific email address and get instant replies directly in their inbox.

Imagine someone emailing your Pickaxe with a question and getting an instant, smart reply with the same tone and intelligence it has on your website or studio chat. No setup hassles, no coding needed. Just smooth, automated email conversations powered by your Pickaxe.

Here’s how to set it up:

Go to your Studio

Click on Create Deployment, and Click on E-Mail

Customize the email ID you want connected.

That’s it! Your Pickaxe is now ready to reply to emails like a pro.

This is how it looks from the user side:

  1. Users write an email:

  1. They get instant replies via E-Mail.

Whether you’re using it for customer support, newsletter Q&A, or team assistance, this update makes your chatbot more accessible than ever and brings Pickaxe straight into your inbox.

:love_letter: Want to see it in action? Send a quick note to e-therapy@tools.mail.studio and enjoy some instant e-therapy.

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I’m excited to test this out!

But I don’t see the deployment option at the studio level as in your screenshot… And when I look to add a deployment at the pickaxe level, there is no email option.

That’s odd! Clicking the create deployment button should open a menu that includes email.

This is what I see…

Are there any limitations to what plan the user is subscribed to? i.e., Gold/Pro? @nathaniel

@daniellesutton looks it only appears when you’re set up as a chat (so a form + chat won’t have it appear).

Another question on responses - any way to format the text as RTF or HTML? So far I can only produce plain text, is that the expectation?

How do user credits work with emails? When set with a free trial user for example it appears to keep answering their emails beyond the number of credits for default users. Should emails be tracking use and then prompting for an upsell into the system or do they always respond, regardless of who the user is @nathaniel ?

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Ok! Makes sense. Thanks for the insight :slightly_smiling_face:

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Currently available to all users regardless of plan.. we expect it to stay that way

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Try requesting HTML in your prompt.. that worked for me!

@nathaniel Can you share exactly what you did?

Tried requesting HTML in the email request and in the pickaxe prompt itself and the email contains the HTML code but doesn’t render that way (sends all the html as the body). That tells me the outbound sender is wrapping something else around the content that we don’t have control over.

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That;s really great!

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This is freaking awesome :slight_smile:

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Try again now, we made some changes!

Yes I have questions on how this works when we leave the pickaxe UI same for whats app. How is anyone going to pay or get blocked if they are on free tier. A rogue bot could get very expensive.

The anonymous usage tracking for email appears to be working now, thanks. Where can we change the message that is sent in the email to give instructions on how to sign up, include a link to the main site, etc? It looks similar to the pickaxe out of credits message but not the same.

Hi @alexbratton @landed ,
Thank you for your questions!

You can open your Email Deployment


and, on the left side, configure the amount of guest usage allowed as well as the upgrade message that will be sent to users once their guest credits are fully used.

In that message, you can include instructions on how to sign up, purchase a product, or even add a link to your Studio’s pricing page.

If you would like the upgrade message to function more like our other embeds by including a clickable Upgrade button, please submit it as a Feature Request.

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How did you do this please? All we are getting is one huge chunk of text.

Thanks, I see that option now.