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To see that a messenger or Push works you need to connect a messenger to a test object. 

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1. Choose an object, from which you will make a check


2. Setup widget for users to select a messenger

a. Open widgets


b. Setup a default widgets for messenger bots

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i. The widget settings above makes it pop, every time a user enters the Home page.



3. Enter the app as your selected testing user/object:


a. open objects

b. The LoginUrl column allows running the app as any of these objects/users. Click the “open app” on the one you need

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e. You device will have your app’s Home Page appear


4. Wait for the widget to appear.

If it does not - check that you did not set any delays at all. Also the widget may not pop if you are doing this for the second time and did press “show me in 2 weeks” or “remind me later”, which is done not to annoy users ( in this case the widget can be called again after 15 minutes timeout). 

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Note that this pop up automatically shows all messengers, which bots are connected to in the Bots section of the platform.


5. Press an icon of the messenger you want to test.

It MUST BE INSTALLED on the device where you are testing.


6. Press a Start button in Messenger or type and send any text to start a bot connection. 


7. As a response you will get a welcome message and a link to your app


8. Now this user/object is connected to a messenger bot and you can send messages to it.

To see which channels/messengers are already conencted to each user/object you can in Objects tab of the platform. Column names are ViberChannel, FacebookChannel, Telegram Channel, VKChannel.


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d. These columns will be added to your Objects grid table.



9. Send a manual message to your test user/object

a. locate a user/object which you have connected a messenger bot for at the steps above, it will have this green switch ON. 

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h. the message  will now be sent to the selected object



10. Wait for the message to appear.

It could come with a delay, depending on the actual servers load and network congestions.