Find it in your dashboard under Chatbot → Design → Add conversation starters.
Examples
- “What are your most popular products?”
- “Do you offer free shipping?”
- “Help me find a gift under $50.”
- “How do returns work?”
Best practices
- Use 3 to 5 prompts. More than that feels like a lot to read.
- Think about what your customers actually want. “Find a gift” works better than “Tell me about our company”.
- Update them for the season. Swap in holiday or sale prompts when it makes sense.
- Keep them short so they fit on one line on mobile (under 50 characters).
Override with JavaScript
You usually set conversation starters in the dashboard, but you can also override them per page load from your own code. This is handy when the right prompts depend on the page (a product page, a cart, a help center). Both methods below take precedence over the dashboard-configured starters. Set them before the widget loads viawindow.molinSettings:
window.Molin is only available after the widget script has loaded. Set them inside a molin:ready listener, or use the window.molinSettings
approach above, which is read automatically on load.