WhatsApp chatbot template: gym membership enquiry
Enquiries spike in January and on Monday mornings, when nobody is at the desk. The flow that converts is not the one that quotes a price — it is the one that books a trial and then follows it up.
The goal
Book a trial session, and follow it up before the motivation fades.
The flow, node by node
- Buttons
What are you after?
Membership / trial session / class timetable. Three genuinely different intents that arrive in similar words.
Hi! What can I help with — membership, a free trial session, or the class timetable?
नमस्ते! किसमें मदद करूँ — मेंबरशिप, मुफ्त ट्रायल सेशन, या क्लास का टाइमटेबल?
- Hand off to AI
Timetable and facilities → the AI agent
It answers from your uploaded timetable and facility list, which changes too often to hardcode in a flow.
- List menu
Which goal or class type?
Strength, weight loss, classes, rehab. Shapes the trial you book and the follow-up you send.
- HTTP request
Check trial slot availability
Against your own schedule, including whoever runs inductions.
- Buttons
Offer trial slots
Soon. A trial booked for next week converts far worse than one booked for tomorrow.
- Set attribute
Record goal and trial date
Both feed the follow-up, which is the part that actually sells the membership.
- Send template
Confirm with what to bring
Utility. Shoes, a towel, arrive ten minutes early. Removes the most common no-show reason.
- Wait
Wait until a few hours after the trial
Not the next week. The window in which someone joins is short and it closes quietly.
- Send template
Follow up on the trial
One question about how it went, then the membership options. This is the message most gyms never send.
- Hand off to a human
Pricing negotiation and corporate → a person
Anything involving a discount or a group rate is a conversation.
Where this usually goes wrong
- Quoting membership prices in the flow. It turns a conversation into a comparison, and you lose on price to the gym down the road.
- No post-trial follow-up. The trial is not the conversion; the message a few hours later is.
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