Card components

Cards are a useful way to enrich the bot experience by showing your users images, gifs and other media like video and audio. They also allow you to direct the user through your flows with buttons and suggestions.

Cards are rendered differently depending on the integration. See the support matrix below to see which integrations support which cards.

Card Compatibility Matrix

You can also send card messages from custom components. Read Cards in custom components to see how it's done.

An important concept to understand about cards is buttons and how they can be used to transition through your flows, link to outside resources, start new flows or act as shortcuts to user-inputted text (suggested responses). Read more about buttons and suggestions to see how they can be used with your bot here.