Vapi appointment booking bot build
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j
Hey guys, trying to just make a simple Vapi appointment booking bot and they updated the system so it broke my other one haha. Does anyone have a video or walkthrough of how to actually make one. Seems like it should be simple ❓
v
@Jay Storm Hello! I'm glad to assist you with creating a Vapi appointment booking bot. While I don't have a video to show you, I can certainly guide you through the process step by step. Here's a general outline of what you'll need to do: 1. **Create an Assistant**: Use the Create Assistant endpoint to set up a new assistant tailored for appointment booking. 2. **Set up the Web SDK**: Follow the instructions in the README for the Web SDK to install it. Then, initialize the SDK with your Public Key from the Vapi Dashboard. 3. **Design the Conversation Flow**: Plan out the dialogues and interactions that your bot will have with users to book appointments. This includes greeting messages, asking for the appointment details, and confirming the booking. 4. **Implement Intents and Entities**: Define the intents (user's intentions like 'book an appointment') and entities (specific data like 'date', 'time', 'service type') that your bot needs to recognize in order to process the booking. 5. **Handle the Logic**: Write the backend logic to handle appointment bookings. This might involve checking the availability of slots, booking the appointment in your system, and sending confirmation to the user. 6. **Test Your Bot**: Before going live, thoroughly test your bot to ensure it handles various scenarios and user inputs gracefully. 7. **Deploy**: Once you're satisfied with the testing, deploy your bot to make it available for users. If you need more specific instructions or have any questions about any of these steps, feel free to ask!
You can continue this conversation by mentioning me in the message.
Got it. Tagging @User for additional help.
s
What got broken, please describe?
j
Tools & functions - But really is there a tutorial to make a simple appointment booking bot with vapi. All the ones I've watched are outdated so I'd like to make sure their working, I have 50 clients to build for on it and just need one example of it actually working that I can replicate lol. Then literally all of them can start their outbound campaigns. Appreciate the help @Shubham Bajaj I love vapi and really want to just get one appt build up that I can replicate for the clients vapi + make, vapi + ghl, really anything that just books the appt!!!
s
@Jay Storm what issue your facing exactly, if you can list out that then can help you with step by step process.
Meanwhile: 1. create assistant 2. write your prompt using https://docs.vapi.ai/prompting-guide 3. create a test tool and give tool description as usage/purpose, expected inputs and output 4. use keywords such as " trigger the tool" to trigger or call the tool 5. send the response in expected format https://docs.vapi.ai/tools-calling 6. once this all is done proceed create checking_slots and booking_slot tools.
j
Ok great, I'll do it and get back to you, thanks!!
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