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Banking support automation

AI chatbot for banking
that answers around the clock

Routine account, card, and payment questions get instant answers from your own content. Sensitive cases reach your team in seconds, with full context.

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AI Agent
Do you charge for incoming wire transfers?
Incoming domestic wires are free on all checking accounts. International incoming wires are $15, waived on Premier Checking. Anything else I can check for you?
Resolved by AI agent. No ticket created.
Answered from your content
yourbank.com/fees
fee-schedule.pdf
Help center: wire transfers
Refreshed on your schedule

Answer account questions

Fees, cards, and how-tos get instant answers from the content your bank publishes.

Capture loan leads

Product questions turn into saved contact details and follow-ups for your team.

Cover every hour

Customers ask at midnight. The AI answers, and the hard cases become tickets.

Over 35,000 brands are already selling through service with Text

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Proof from financial services

Funded Trading Plus runs its customer conversations on Text. The numbers below are theirs.

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"Text's AI Agent has helped us save our 5-star reputation during a major industry-wide disruption when we had to resolve 15x more chats overnight."

Jamie Miller, Chief Strategy Officer at Funded Trading Plus

125K

Chats annually

93%

CSAT rating

18%

Workload reduction

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AI chatbot for banks that answers from your own content

No scripts to write and no core systems to open up. The AI agent learns what your bank already publishes and stays inside the rules you set.

Trained on what your bank publishes

Point the AI agent at your website, help center, rate pages, and documents. It scans up to 5,000 subpages, refreshes on the schedule you set, and answers with what is actually on your pages, not what a script guessed months ago.

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AI agent connected to a bank website, a PDF, and a text file as knowledge sources
Tone of voice options with an on-brand reply from the AI agent

You write the rules it plays by

Custom instructions of up to 10,000 characters set the agent's role, tone, and hard limits. Prohibit legal or investment advice outright, name the topics that always go to a person, and test every change in the preview before customers see it.

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What a banking AI chatbot handles

The routine questions that fill your queue today, answered without a person and without a wait.

Account and card questions

Card activation steps, daily limits, what a pending charge means, how to freeze a card in your app.

Rates, fees, and hours

Fee schedules, current rates, branch hours, and routing numbers, straight from your published pages.

Loan and mortgage inquiries

Products, requirements, and needed documents, with contact details collected for your lending team.

Appointment booking

Customers book time with a banker or advisor in chat, and the meeting lands with the right person.

Urgent case triage

A lost or stolen card report goes straight to your team, marked urgent, with the customer already identified.

Disputes and complaints

The AI collects the details, opens a ticket, and your team starts with the whole story in front of them.

The AI agent answers from your published content and points customers to secure self-service for anything that touches an account. It does not read balances or move money, so there is nothing sensitive for it to expose.

Banking chatbot examples

Three conversations from a typical banking queue, and what the AI agent does with each.

Instant answer
Are you open on Saturday?
The Maple Street branch is open 9 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays. The downtown branch is closed on weekends, and I am here around the clock if anything comes up.
Resolved by AI agent. No ticket created.
Lead captured
What do I need to apply for a home loan?
You will need proof of income, two years of tax returns, and a valid ID. Want a mortgage specialist to walk you through the options? Leave your email and they will reach out within one business day.
Contact saved and passed to the mortgage team.
Escalated with context
My card was stolen.
I am sorry, let us fix that right away. You can lock the card instantly in the mobile app under Cards, and I am connecting you with our card security team now.
Transferred to a person with full chat history.

Each of these runs on the same setup: your published content for the answers, your instructions for the limits, and your team for everything that needs a person.

Hand off to a human with full context

In banking, the handoff is the feature. The AI covers the routine, and the moment a case turns sensitive, a person takes over without the customer repeating a word.

AI agent responding to an unexpected card charge and transferring the chat to a security team member

Escalation on your rules

Name the topics that always reach a person. The transfer goes to the first available teammate or a specific team, and if nobody picks up in 30 seconds, it becomes a ticket on its own.

Full history travels

Whoever takes over sees the whole conversation and the customer's profile: contact details, past chats, and open tickets. Nobody asks anything twice.

Honest around the clock

After hours, the AI answers what your content covers and turns the rest into tickets for the morning. No fake queues, no dead ends.

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Security and compliance your bank can verify

The controls your security and compliance teams will ask about, documented and ready to review at trust.text.com.

SOC 2 Type 2

Independently audited controls for security and availability.

Custom SSO via SAML 2.0

Route your team's login through your own identity provider. Available on Enterprise.

Audit logs on demand

Review who did what, available on Enterprise plans.

Two-factor authentication

Password plus authenticator code, on every plan.

GDPR and DPA

Data Processing Addendum with EU Standard Contractual Clauses, plus export and deletion support.

Encrypted connections

Secure TLS connections and permission-based access across the platform.

AICPA SOC 2 SOC 2
GDPR GDPR
CCPA CCPA
PCI DSS PCI DSS
Data Privacy Framework DPF
WCAG 2 accessibility WCAG 2
BBB accredited business BBB

On top of the platform controls, you set the product guardrails yourself: instructions that prohibit legal or investment advice, topics that always escalate, and roles that keep publishing rights with the people you choose. Rolling out across a large institution? The enterprise chatbot page covers SSO, audit logs, and multi-agent setups.

Every channel, one inbox

One AI agent answers on your website, email, Messenger, WhatsApp, and SMS, and your team works every conversation from a single view. Add the WhatsApp chatbot in minutes when your customers message there.

Website chat

The chat widget on your site, with the visited page in view.

Messaging apps

WhatsApp and Messenger, the apps your customers already use.

Email

Arrives as a ticket your team can assign and answer.

SMS

Text messages through Twilio, in the same queue.

Customer service AI agents that sell, not just solve

Text AI agents partner with your team to lift the metrics that matter, going well beyond queue relief.

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Product recommendations

Your AI agent matches customers with products they actually want. Personalized suggestions based on browsing history, cart contents, and conversation context.

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Lead capture

Generate and qualify leads instantly, in the right moment. Lead generation becomes part of the conversation experience.

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Cross-sell and upsell

Deliver timely, relevant messages based on behavior and intent. Every nudge feels personal and drives action.

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Personalized offers

Serve tailored offers at the perfect moment. Context-aware incentives drive sales without feeling pushy.

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Instant FAQ answers

Automate over 80% of chats and tickets. Your team gets time back, and customers get answers instantly.

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Smart handoff to humans

Transfer conversations with full context and zero repetition. Pick up the thread seamlessly to keep the momentum.

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What is a banking chatbot?

A banking chatbot is an AI assistant that answers customers of banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions in chat. It handles routine questions about accounts, cards, fees, rates, and services from the institution's own published content, works 24/7, and transfers sensitive or complex requests to a human banker with the conversation history attached. It is the financial services front line of AI customer service software.

How chatbots are used in banking

The everyday work is unglamorous and valuable: answering the same fifty questions about fees, cards, hours, and online banking that fill every support queue. Beyond that, banks use chatbots to collect loan and account inquiries after hours, book appointments with bankers, and triage urgent cases so a stolen card reaches a person in seconds. The category is also called conversational AI in banking, which describes the same technology by what it does: it holds a conversation instead of walking a menu.

What a banking chatbot should not do

A customer-facing chatbot should not read balances, move money, or make credit decisions in chat. Those actions belong behind your authenticated banking channels, where they are protected by bank-grade security. A well-designed banking chatbot answers what is public, guides customers into secure self-service for what is personal, and brings in your team for what needs judgment. That boundary is not a limitation. It is what makes the chatbot safe to deploy in an afternoon.

Banking chatbot vs. banking virtual assistant

A banking virtual assistant usually lives inside a bank's own mobile app and works for logged-in users. A banking chatbot covers the public side: the website, WhatsApp, Messenger, email, and SMS, where customers ask questions before and after they log in. Most institutions need the second kind first, because that is where the unanswered questions pile up.

Frequently Asked Questions

A banking chatbot is an AI-powered assistant that answers customer questions for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions. It handles routine questions about accounts, cards, fees, and services around the clock, and transfers the conversation to a human banker when a request is sensitive or needs judgment. With ChatBot.com, the chatbot runs on Text: it answers from your own published content, so replies stay accurate and on policy.

Security comes first in this category, so check the platform, not the promise. Text is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and supports GDPR, including a Data Processing Addendum with EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Every plan includes two-factor authentication and encrypted TLS connections, and Enterprise plans add custom SSO through the SAML 2.0 standard and audit logs on demand. The details are documented at trust.text.com.

Yes, and you decide when. The AI agent transfers a conversation automatically to the first available teammate or to a specific team, and if nobody picks up within 30 seconds it can create a ticket instead. Whoever takes over sees the full conversation and the customer's details, so nobody asks anything twice. That clean handoff is what separates a real customer support chatbot from an autoresponder, and it matters more in banking than anywhere else.

Your website chat widget, email, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and SMS through Twilio. One AI agent covers all of them, and every conversation lands in one inbox. If your customers message you on WhatsApp, the WhatsApp chatbot integration connects in minutes.

Most teams go live the same day. Point the AI agent at your website and help center, set its tone and instructions, test it in the preview, and publish the chat widget. There is no integration project, because the AI answers from your content rather than your core systems.

Yes, 14 days, no credit card required. Connect your website content, test the AI agent in the preview or on your site, and count the questions it resolves before you pay anything. There is no free-forever tier, but two weeks on your real traffic tells you more than any scripted demo.

The names overlap. A banking virtual assistant usually means the assistant inside a bank's own mobile app, while a banking chatbot covers customer conversations on the website and messaging channels. The job is the same: answer routine questions instantly and route the rest to people. ChatBot.com plays the second role: it works on the channels customers use before and after they log in, with no app release required.

Banks use chatbots to answer repetitive questions instantly: branch hours, routing numbers, fees, card activation steps, and how-to guidance for online banking. They also collect loan and account inquiries after hours, book appointments with bankers, and triage urgent cases like lost cards so they reach the right team first. The pattern is consistent: the AI answers what is documented, and people handle what is personal.

No, and it does not need to. The AI agent answers from the content you publish: your website, help center, rates and fees pages, and documents. That is what makes it safe for a bank and live in a day instead of a months-long IT project. For anything that needs account data, it guides the customer to online banking or hands the chat to your team. When you want to go further, webhooks can connect it to systems your team controls.

Yes, on the questions-and-leads side. The AI agent answers questions about your loan products, rates, and requirements from your published pages, collects contact details, and passes qualified inquiries to your team. It works like a sales chatbot for your lending and deposit products: it does not approve applications or move money, it makes sure no interested customer leaves without an answer or a follow-up.

Yes. The AI agent detects the customer's language and can reply in all languages, one language, or a specific set you choose. The same knowledge base answers in the language the question came in, which helps any institution whose customers bank in more than one language.

ChatBot.com runs on Text pricing: a per-seat subscription plus AI resolution usage, with a set number of resolutions included in each plan. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current plans and rates.

Yes, and in a regulated business you should. Custom instructions of up to 10,000 characters define the agent's role, tone, and hard limits in plain language. You can explicitly prohibit it from giving legal or investment advice, keep it away from topics you name, and require a handoff for anything sensitive. Answers stay grounded in the content you published, and you can review conversations and adjust the instructions at any time.

Yes. Credit unions and community banks adopt them quickly because the math favors small teams: one AI agent covers member questions around the clock, and staff spend their time on lending, disputes, and the members who need a person. Setup and pricing scale down as well as up, so a smaller institution is not paying for enterprise machinery it will not use.

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