# Flows

Build automated conversations with Flow triggers, actions, and templates. Collect visitor details, recommend products, and check where visitors leave a flow.

Source: https://help.tidio.com/sections/flows/

## Articles

- [Add links to flows](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/add-links-to-flows/index.md>): You can add clickable links inside your flows, allowing you to transfer your visitors to different URLs.
- [Adding a new Flow](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/adding-a-new-flow/index.md>): Create a new flow from a template or from scratch, or import an exported flow.
- [Autoresponder Flow for missed conversations](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/autoresponder-missed-conversations/index.md>): Send an automatic reply when a new chat remains unassigned.
- [Collect valuable data and files with the "Send a Form" action](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/send-a-form/index.md>): Build a form inside the chat widget with the Send a form flow action: answer types, required fields, saving answers to contact properties and letting visitors upload files.
- [Coupon Code (flow action)](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/coupon-code-flow-action/index.md>): Send discount codes in your flows with the Send a coupon code action - create Shopify codes without leaving Tidio and see the sales they bring in.
- [Create a custom filter to send a flow message just once](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/send-flow-once-filter/index.md>): Label visitors with a custom contact property and check it in your flows, so a message (like a discount code) is sent to each person only once.
- [Create a Flow in Multiple Languages](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-in-multiple-languages/index.md>): Use the Language condition to send visitors different flow messages based on their browser language. You write each message and connect it to the language it belongs to.
- [Create a Loop in your Flow](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-loop/index.md>): Return visitors to an earlier decision in your flow.
- [Create a ticket from a Flow](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/create-a-ticket-from-a-flow/index.md>): Use the Create ticket action to turn a chat into a ticket from your Flow, with its subject, message, transcript and department.
- [Create an FAQ Flow](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/create-an-faq-flow/index.md>): Answer your visitors' most frequent questions with an FAQ flow - from a ready-made template or from scratch.
- [Disable Text Input](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/disable-text-input/index.md>): Control when visitors can type in the chat during a flow with Disable text input and Enable text input.
- [Edit your initial message (first flow)](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/edit-initial-message/index.md>): Find, test, edit, pause or delete the first flow added to your project when you signed up.
- [Flow and Handoff Analytics](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-and-handoff-analytics/index.md>): Use the flow editor's Analyze mode to see how many visitors reach each step of a flow and where they leave it, over the last 30 days or dates you pick.
- [Flow editor: Actions](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-editor-actions/index.md>): Every action you can add to a Flow, from Send a chat message to Create ticket, Send a coupon code and the Shopify actions, and what each one does.
- [Flow editor: Conditions](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-editor-conditions/index.md>): A condition in Tidio is a flow node that checks whether specific visitor criteria are met to choose the next step in the flow.
- [Flow editor: Triggers](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-editor-triggers/index.md>): How triggers start your Flows, the three trigger groups in the editor, and what each of the 22 triggers does.
- [Flow Metrics](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-metrics/index.md>): Read your Flows' metrics: the 30-day summary in My Flows, and each Flow's statistics window with Executed, Engagement, Helpfulness, Conversations and Handoff.
- [Flow Performance Analytics](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-performance-analytics/index.md>): See how your flows perform: the four metrics over the last 30 days, the per-step view in Analyze mode, tips to raise engagement and how the monthly flows limit works.
- [Flow Portals - Start one Flow from another](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-portals/index.md>): Link flows with portals or matching quick replies.
- [Flow Strategies](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-strategies/index.md>): Pick a ready-made Strategy in the Flows section, customize its flows step by step and activate them all at once.
- [Flow Templates](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flow-templates/index.md>): You can automate your work even faster by using our flow templates. Ready-to-use templates are available for your adjustment in the Flows section.
- [Flows dedicated for Shopify](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flows-dedicated-for-shopify/index.md>): The Shopify-only nodes of the flow editor (five actions, the Cart Value condition and the add-to-cart trigger), the Shopify templates and Flow strategies.
- [Flows in Live Conversations](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flows-in-live-conversations/index.md>): Launch a prepared flow while chatting with a customer.
- [Flows: Making an API call (HTTP request)](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flows-api-call/index.md>): Send HTTP requests from a flow with the API call action: set up and test the request, save parts of the response, use the Success and Fail paths and download the logs.
- [Instagram Flows](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/instagram-flows/index.md>): Use flows on Instagram: the triggers, actions and conditions you can use, how to check which nodes work on Instagram, and the Instagram templates.
- [My Flows section](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/my-flows-section/index.md>): Find, filter and sort your flows in My Flows, manage them from the three-dots menu, open their statistics, and clone, export or import them.
- [Recommend Products (flow action for Shopify)](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/recommend-products-flow-action/index.md>): Show your visitors product recommendations from your Shopify store in a flow with the Recommend products action.
- [The "Transfer to agent" message](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/the-transfer-to-agent-message/index.md>): Hand the conversation to your agents when a visitor types instead of clicking a flow's buttons, and adjust the message they see.
- [The Flows launcher: welcome message, Flow ended message and Flow buttons](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/flows-launcher/index.md>): Set up the Welcome message and Flow buttons your visitors can click to start a flow, the Flow ended chat message, and where the launcher is turned on.
- [The Flows section](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/the-flows-section/index.md>): Find your way around the Flows section: My Flows, Strategies, the Sales, Leads and Support template lists, Welcome to Flows and the Flows launcher.
- [The Handoff Metric](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/handoff-metric/index.md>): Find out how often visitors leave your support flows by typing instead of clicking, where to see it (the Handoff tab and Analyze mode) and how to improve the flow.
- [The Helpfulness Metric](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/the-helpfulness-metric/index.md>): Ask visitors whether a flow message helped them, then read the thumbs up and down per message in the Helpfulness tab of the flow's statistics.
- [The monthly flow limit](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/the-monthly-flow-limit/index.md>): Your flows can reach a set number of unique visitors a month (100 on the Free plan): where to check your Visitors reached, how it's counted and what happens at the limit.
- [Tracking an Abandoned Cart using Tidio](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/abandoned-cart/index.md>): Track abandoned carts with Tidio - automatically on Shopify, or with a short script on other platforms - and react to them with a flow.
- [Transfer flows between projects](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/transfer-flows-between-projects/index.md>): Export a flow as a JSON file and import it into another Tidio project as a draft.
- [Trigger a flow by clicking on the chat icon](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/trigger-flow-chat-icon/index.md>): Start a flow when a visitor clicks your chat icon and edit the closed-widget label.
- [Troubleshooting Flow and Widget Display](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/troubleshooting-flow-widget-display/index.md>): Check widget visibility and test flows in a fresh private browsing session.
- [Visitor Says (flow trigger)](<https://help.tidio.com/articles/visitor-says-flow-trigger/index.md>): How the Visitor says trigger starts a Flow when a visitor's message is similar to your phrases, in nine languages, and how to set it up.
