Features
Everything here is in the builder today. The two things that aren't are listed at the bottom. Some features depend on your plan, and each one says so below.
Build
A flow is a set of steps on a canvas, joined by the replies that lead between them.
- Nine node types
- Entry Point, Choice Menu, Ask a Question, Flash Alert, Smart Router, Sub-flow, Send Data, Collect Payment and End Session. Every type can be built and tested on any plan. Publishing a flow that uses Collect Payment, Sub-flow or a menu filled from your API needs the Plus plan.
- Variables
- Answers to questions and responses from your API are saved to variables you can use in any later screen or routing rule.
- Templates
- Start from a complete flow and edit it: restaurant ordering, customer feedback, voting and polls, airtime and data purchase, and event ticketing.
- Ewurasi, the AI assistant
- Describe the service in a sentence and Ewurasi lays out a first draft on the canvas for you to edit. Every plan includes a number of drafts each month.
Test
Check every branch before a customer dials it.
- Phone simulator
- Dial the flow on an on-screen phone and reply to each screen as a customer would. Steps that call your API call it for real.
Work together
- Invite by email
- Give teammates access to a project from the share dialog. Collaborators are part of the Plus and Team plans.
- Share a link
- Let anyone with the link view the flow. On the Plus and Team plans the link can also allow editing.
- Live cursors
- See where everyone else is working on the canvas while you edit. Part of the Plus and Team plans.
Go live
- Four aggregators
- Hubtel, Nalo Solutions, Arkesel and Africa's Talking. See integrations
- Publish to a shortcode
- Enter your shortcode, set your aggregator's callback URL to the one Asterisks gives you, and publish.
- Your own API
- Send Data nodes call any HTTPS endpoint, so balances, orders and accounts stay in your systems.
Run it
- Live session traffic
- Active sessions, average duration and load per aggregator, with a transcript of each session. Live traffic is part of the Plus and Team plans. The Hobbyist plan shows the last 7 days of sessions.
- Audit logs
- Search deployments, API calls and account changes, and export them as CSV, Excel or PDF. Audit logs are part of the Plus and Team plans, and export is part of Team.
- Session balance
- Sessions are charged from a session balance you top up, and you can track usage in your account settings. See pricing
Not available yet
Both have a place in the builder already, and neither is switched on.
- Datastore
- Keep records, such as registrations or votes, inside Asterisks without your own database.
- Per-project integrations
- Connect a project directly to tools such as Google Sheets.