TABLE OF CONTENTS
- About TikTok Messaging & Comment automation
- Integrating your TikTok account
- How will TikTok Comment automation work?
- How will TikTok DM automation work?
- Important Points to Noted
About TikTok Messaging & Comment automation
TikTok has millions of active customers but they dont provide tools for managing customers, contacts & conversations efficiently at scale. You want to automate some amount of these activities, so the conversations happen in FBIG, but are managed from inside your CRM.
All you have to do is configure several different components correctly. This guide will explain each of those components, several patterns for making them work together.
Integrating your TikTok account
Before proceeding, make sure your TikTok accounts are integrated with your Subaccount. Go to Subaccount > Settings > Integrations > TikTok card.
Components
Triggers:
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TikTok Comment on a Reel – workflow starts when there is a new comment on your TikTok post. Click here for more info on this Trigger.
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Customer Replied – select a reply channel like TikTok messenger. Click here for more info on this Trigger
Actions:
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Reply In Comments: reply to a comment with a comment under it. Click here for more info on this action
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TikTok Interactive Messenger
How will TikTok Comment automation work?
Setup Trigger: TikTok Comment(s) on Reel
When creating a workflow click on “Add Trigger”. The triggers related to comment automation are present in the Communication category. You can directly search for the trigger or scroll down to the category.
1. Go to triggers and select from the available triggers based on your use case. Here you should select TikTok – Comment(s) on a Post
2. After clicking on the trigger the sidebar will open. There are multiple filters present here. The first step is to select the Account.
Account Selection for TikTok Comments
If a specific account is not selected in the filter, the system will automatically consider all accounts that are integrated at the location level. The automation will then execute across all these connected accounts.
3. After selecting the Page you have to select the Post Type. Post type can be “Published” or “Custom”
a. Published Post – ‘Published Posts’ tab fetches all posts on your business page – basis this selection, all the posts from your account comes as a dropdown.
b. Custom Post – Custom Post tab allows you to define the post you want to consider by providing an URL
Post Selection Behavior
If a specific post is not selected, the system will automatically include all posts associated with the connected TikTok account.
4. In the next step, you should select the post or provide the URL, you would like to run the automation on. If you do
5. After selecting the post you have to enter what are you looking for in the comment. You can select from 2 options “Contains Phrase” and “Exact Match”. Below are some examples to understand these 2 dropdown better.
Exact Match – Price
Inbound message – Price
Result – Pass
Exact Match – Share the Price
Inbound message – Share the Price
Result – Pass
Exact Match – Share the Price
Inbound message – Please share the Price
Result – Fail
Contains Exact Phrase – I bought from you
Inbound message – I bought from you
Result – Pass
Contains Exact Phrase – I bought from you
Inbound message – I bought from you yesterday
Result – Pass
Contains Exact Phrase – I bought from you
Inbound message – I bought one from you
Result – Fail
When the contact will be saved?
When a contact is coming through the trigger, it will be saved as a contact and First Name and Last Name of the contact will be stored.
Setup Action : Reply in Comments
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Go to actions. Here you can select the action from the Communications section, “Reply in Comments”
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Users can configure up to 10 reply comments, which will be randomly selected during execution.
How will TikTok DM automation work?
Trigger : Customer replied
When creating a workflow click on “Add Trigger”. The trigger related to DM automation “Customer replied” is present in the Events category. You can directly search for the trigger or scroll down to the category.
1. Go to triggers and select from the available triggers based on your use case. Here you should select Customer replied trigger
2. After clicking on the trigger the sidebar will open. There are multiple filters present here. The first step is to select the “Reply channel” filter where filter value = TikTok
3. Users can configure automation rules for direct messages by setting specific matching conditions, such as ‘Contains Phrase’ or ‘Exact Match Phrase.’
4. Based on the above configurations, you can define the trigger for the automation.
Setup Action : Tiktok Interactive messenger
There is 1 new action in the “Communications” category – Tiktok Interactive messenger
On selecting the action, the sidebar will open where you can capture all the relevant details.
The TikTok Interactive Messenger is fairly straightforward. Here you have to provide the message you want to send to the inbound trigger defined and save the action.
Important Points to Noted
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The TikTok Interactive Messenger action, unlike FB & IG does not support a “Reply Type” field where users could have defined values “Reply as DM”, “Reply to Comment via DM”. It will be enabled as soon as TikTok APIs starts supporting it.
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The TikTok Interactive Messenger action, unlike FB & IG, does not support Templates. It will be enabled incrementally
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The TikTok Interactive Messenger action does not support Attachments, Buttons, Quick Replies. It will be enabled as soon as TikTok APIs start supporting it.