FAQ Chatbot vs Sales Chatbot: Two Different Machines

An FAQ chatbot answers known questions and reduces support load. A sales chatbot qualifies a visitor, captures contact details, and pushes toward a booking or order. They share an interface, but the goals pull in opposite directions, so they are built and measured differently.
TL;DR: An FAQ bot deflects roughly 40 to 70 percent of repeat questions. A sales chatbot exists to turn 100 conversations into a stack of qualified leads. One protects staff time, the other grows revenue, and they start at different prices: 150 GEL/month versus 250 to 1000 GEL.
If your goal is fewer support tickets, you want one machine. If your goal is more booked calls, you want the other. The fastest way to waste money is to order a sales chatbot build and then judge it on ticket deflection, or order an FAQ bot and expect it to fill your calendar. Name the goal first, then pick the machine.
What an FAQ Chatbot Does
An FAQ chatbot lives on your most repetitive questions. Opening hours, delivery times, return policy, address, price ranges, "do you have this in stock." It answers fast, in the customer's language, and ends the conversation cleanly. Its success looks like a quiet inbox the next morning.
These bots earn their place in high-volume support. When a Georgian customer messages at midnight asking whether you deliver to Batumi, an FAQ bot answers instantly while your staff sleep.
What a Sales Chatbot Does
A sales chatbot has a different instinct. It greets, asks two or three qualifying questions, reads intent, and steers the conversation toward a next step: a booked call, a captured phone number, a started order. It treats every chat as a possible lead, not a problem to close.
A sales bot accepts a slightly higher friction in exchange for outcomes. It would rather ask "what is your budget" and lose a tire-kicker than answer politely and capture nothing.
Head to Head
| Dimension | FAQ Chatbot | Sales Chatbot |
|---|---|---|
| Core goal | Deflect repeat questions | Capture and qualify leads |
| Tone | Calm, helpful, neutral | Warm, directive, forward |
| Success metric | Resolution without a human | Leads and bookings captured |
| Typical start price | from 150 GEL/month | 250 to 1000 GEL |
| Ends conversation by | Answering the question | Capturing the next step |
| Failure mode | Pushy, off-topic nudges | Stiff, robotic question dumps |
How much does a sales chatbot cost in Georgia?
A sales chatbot in Georgia runs 250 to 1000 GEL depending on the number of qualifying flows, channels, and CRM connections. A simple lead-capture bot on one channel sits near the bottom of that range. A multi-channel bot that scores leads and books calls sits near the top. A basic FAQ bot, by contrast, starts at 150 GEL/month.
When You Need Both
Most growing businesses end up running both jobs, sometimes inside one project with two modes. The pattern works like this:
- The FAQ layer handles the high-volume "where, when, how much" traffic
- The sales layer activates when a visitor shows buying intent, then qualifies and routes
- A shared handoff rule sends anything complex to a human
Splitting the jobs keeps each one honest. The FAQ answers stay calm, the sales prompts stay focused, and you can read each scoreboard separately.
How to Choose This Week
Ask one question: what is currently bleeding? If your team drowns in repeat messages and misses real buyers in the noise, start with the FAQ bot to clear the channel. If you have steady traffic but few captured leads, start with the sales bot. You can add the second machine once the first one earns its keep.
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- Running one chatbot across Georgian, English, and Russian
- Designing the chatbot-to-human handoff before you need it
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- Why chatbots annoy clients and how to fix it
- A chatbot conversion case from Georgia