How to migrate from Front to Botwit?
If you're currently using Front and want to switch to Botwit, this guide will walk you through the step-by-step
process of migrating your conversations, contacts, live chat widget, and setting up Botwit. This is a very quick
process; let’s dive in.
Before you begin
Before setting up Botwit, there are two essential preliminary tasks to complete in order to smoothly remove Front from
your ecosystem.
Step 1. Remove the Front chat widget
To start, please make sure to uninstall the existing live chat code that you would have previously integrated for
enabling the Front live chat widget on your website.
Step 2. Export contacts
Next, export all of your contacts from Front, with the help of this guide.
Migrating to Botwit
Step 3. Sign up
Create an account in Botwit, using this guide.
Step 4. Migrate the live chat widget
Create a live chat inbox in Botwit, using this guide. At the end of the setup, you will find the live chat code
snippet to be pasted into your website’s codebase. Complete this step, ensuring that you have already removed the live
chat code snippet for Front’s live chat widget, as mentioned in Step 1.
Step 5. Migrate contacts
Open the ‘Contacts’ tab in Botwit, press the Import button.
Next, follow the on-screen instructions to upload the Contacts file exported from Front, in a csv format. Once your
upload is completed, all of your contacts will be successfully synced in Botwit.
Step 6. Migrate conversations
For importing your existing conversations from Front to Botwit, use this API.
Step 7. Make Botwit your own
You are all set to use Botwit, congratulations! We recommend the following steps to begin making the best of Botwit:
Botwit 101 tutorials: A comprehensive guide to learn the basics of Botwit within minutes.
Omnichannel inbox: A helping hand to setting up your omnichannel customer service on Botwit.
A few best practices to make your workflow smooth as butter on Botwit.
For everything else, hit us up on hello@botwit.ai, and don't forget to share your feedback with us. Happy chatting!