ManyChat is one of the most popular apps for creating Facebook Messenger bots that you can use in your ads and marketing.

With Deadline Funnel + ManyChat, you can add authentic deadlines to your automated sequences in ManyChat - so that after someone subscribes to your ManyChat sequence you can let them know they have a specific number of days or hours to take advantage of your special offer.

Still no clue what we're talking about? That's okay! Here's a great guide on Messenger Marketing and Facebook Chatbots that might help. :)

In order to follow along, you will need the following:

This guide also assumes that you already have a Deadline Funnel campaign created and that you will only be integrating this campaign with a ManyChat sequence - i.e. that you won't be integrating a single Deadline Funnel campaign with both a ManyChat sequence and an email sequence at the same time. If you do want to use ManyChat and a regular email sequence at the same time, please use this guide instead.

1. Click on the Integrations tab in Deadline Funnel and then choose your campaign to set up your ManyChat integration:

2. Click 'New Integration':

3. Select 'Create Deadline Funnel Tracking' and click 'Next':

4. Make sure that ManyChat is selected and then click 'Next':

5. On the next screen it's going to ask you for your API Key from ManyChat:

6. You can find that under Settings > API in your ManyChat account:

7. Once you're connected, you're going to select the Custom Field in ManyChat that will store each lead's unique deadline. You will need to already have this Custom Field created in ManyChat so that you can select it from the dropdown. You can create this Custom Field by navigating to Settings > Custom Fields and clicking the +New User Field button in the top right-hand corner:

Note: This will need to be a text field.

8. Once you've created the Custom Field in ManyChat, you can select it inside of Deadline Funnel here:

9. Now copy the Webhook URL that populates below that:

10. Go into ManyChat and navigate to your sequence and click 'Edit Message', then select +Dynamic from the options at the bottom of the screen and move it to the top of the sequence:

11. Then paste the Deadline Funnel webhook there:

12. Next you'll need to navigate to Body and click on Add Full Subscriber Data (this allows Deadline Funnel to grab the information it needs from ManyChat to trigger the deadline) and hit Save:

13. Next, you'll need to navigate back to the Emails tab in the Deadline Funnel admin and copy your special Email Link:

14. Then go back into your ManyChat and paste the link wherever you are sending people to your special offer page in the sequence. It's important that you remove everything after the 'em=' and replace it with the 'User Id' placeholder followed my @mc.deadlinefunnel.com:

Now, whenever someone enters your sequence in ManyChat, their deadline will begin, and when they click on the Deadline Funnel email links in your ManyChat sequence, we will be able to make sure their tracking continues to be accurate - even on other devices and networks!