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Set up, run and improve your assistant

Use Tephlo across WhatsApp, Telegram and web chat, with shared content and a console for your team. Start with setup, then follow the guide for the work you want your assistant to handle.

What the platform does

Each workspace has its own assistant configuration, channels, business information and customer conversations. The assistant can answer from your Knowledge, catalog and configured business facts; use available read integrations; and carry out actions allowed by its active profile and current workspace state.

Built capabilities include saved carts and order requests, internal appointments, customer requests and complaints, reviewed media sharing, and consent-based Smart Updates. Voice transcription and audio replies have separate settings. Your team can review conversations, take over when needed, and maintain the material the assistant uses.

Answers and actions

Business claims should be supported by available evidence. Behavior instructions, goals and guidance shape communication; they do not grant an action or make a business fact true. Server checks determine whether a tool may run and whether it succeeded. When evidence or a capability is missing, the assistant should explain the limit and use an available next step. Review real conversations as part of operating it.

A saved cart or submitted request does not take payment, place a commerce order, reserve stock or start fulfilment. Scheduling records a request or confirms an internal appointment, depending on your setup; it does not synchronize Google Calendar or Outlook. See catalog and carts, appointments and action limits.

Find a guide

New workspace? Create your account and follow the quickstart, including the activation checklist. Plans and current offers are on the pricing page.

Setting up a new workspace

Quickstart

Complete onboarding, activate a profile, review content and test a channel.

Connecting customers to the assistant

Channels

WhatsApp Business, Telegram and the web widget — shared sandbox versus your own credentials.

Configuring how the assistant helps

Assistant setup

Behavior, Goals, reviewed templates, Agent Guidance and organization defaults.

Writing the material the answers come from

Knowledge

Upload and review sources, maintain validity and distinguish processing from approval.

Helping shoppers move from a question to a reviewable request

Catalog & carts

Structured products, saved carts and the workspace-reviewed potential-order workflow.

Managing what customers see and hear

Media & voice

Photos of your products and services, incoming media and assistant audio replies.

Keeping interested customers informed

Smart Updates

Approved updates, customer consent, sending eligibility and outreach controls.

Offering appointment times without creating calendar conflicts

Appointments

Services, resources, availability and the difference between a request and a confirmed time.

Understanding what customers will actually get

Conversations

Grounded answers, the capability limits enforced in code, handoff, goals per domain, and languages.

Support agents and workspace admins

The console

A tour of every screen your team works in, and who can reach which one.

Teammates who work away from a desk

Phone app

Installing it on Android and iPhone, what each teammate sees, notifications and what stays on the desktop.

Organizing workspace responsibilities

Team & access

Teammate invitations, built-in and custom roles, and effective access.

Developers integrating over HTTP

API

Authentication, a five-call quickstart, idempotency, errors, signed webhooks and environments.

Security review and procurement

Security & privacy

Tenant isolation, encrypted credentials, audit trails, consent defaults and privacy tooling.

Anyone stuck on one specific thing

FAQ

Short answers to the questions that come up during setup.

Check availability in your workspace

This documentation describes implemented workflows. Availability still depends on platform switches, your plan, workspace policy, profile activation, required data and provider readiness. A visible setting or saved preference does not establish that customer delivery is enabled.

Setup and CapabilitiesRead the activation checklist and effective capabilities before testing an action with a customer.
Media and voiceLibrary curation, customer-media understanding, photo delivery and audio synthesis are separate capabilities. Check their availability notices.
Smart UpdatesRequires platform availability, workspace opt-in, customer consent and currently approved content. A preview can explain why a send is suppressed.
Answer quality and APIAnswer reuse, caching and improvement tools have their own activation and consent controls. API environments and production access also have separate gates.