They comment on the post. They get a DM.
Keyword rules reply to comments, stories and DMs right away. It all lands in the same inbox as WhatsApp, and the AI answers from your catalog.
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- Applies to
- All posts
- Keyword
- WANT
- Public reply
- Sent you a DM
- DM
- Collection link
- Comment with the keyword
- Public reply on the post
- DM with the link
- AI picked up the reply
Four ways to start the conversation.
Stories, mentions and DMs land in your team's queue, and a keyword comment turns into a DM. The Instagram screen shows where each conversation came from.
One rule per keyword.
Pick where it applies, the keywords and the message. Whoever comments gets a public reply and a DM with your link, and the same rule can answer DMs and story replies.
- Applies to
- All posts and Reels
- Keywords
- WANT, LINK · capitals and accents ignored
- Public reply
- Sent you a DM!
- DM
- Collection link + first-purchase coupon, with a button
- CommentSomeone comments WANT
- Public replyThe rule answers on the post
- DirectLink with a button in a DM
- ReplyThe customer answers the DM
- InboxYour team or the AI takes over
- One private reply per comment, as Meta requires.
- A comment with a question can send your team an alert.
- When a rule replies, the AI doesn't repeat it.
The same inbox as WhatsApp.
Instagram DMs land in the same inbox as WhatsApp, with conversation assignment and a team queue you choose for each account.

Every interaction becomes a conversation.
From keyword to DM
Anyone who comments the keyword, on all posts or only on Reels, gets a public reply and a DM with a button and a link. Meta allows one private message per comment, and the rule respects that.
Stories and mentions in the inbox
Story replies and story mentions arrive as conversations, marked as a story. For a mention, the story itself shows in the chat.
AI in your DMs
The AI agent answers DMs from your knowledge base and catalog, in text, and hands off to a person when needed. You turn it on per Instagram account.
Ice breakers
Up to four ready-made questions for people opening a DM with you for the first time, edited in the dashboard.
The same inbox as WhatsApp
Instagram and WhatsApp in the same inbox, with conversation assignment. Each Instagram account can go to a team's queue.
Received media in the chat
Photos, videos, voice notes and PDFs customers send by DM show up in the conversation.
Access renewed automatically
Meta's access lasts 60 days and the platform renews it before it expires. If renewal fails, the dashboard tells you.
A post that goes viral shouldn't turn into an invoice.
With tools that charge per active contact, every person who comments counts toward that month's plan. At CCX, the monthly plan follows your message volume, and DMs carry no per-message fee.
See CCX × ManyChatDMs have no per-message fee.
Instagram is included in your plan: DMs and keyword replies aren't charged and don't count toward your plan's message volume. When the AI answers, it's billed per interaction.
See full pricingDo I need a Facebook Page?
No. The connection uses Instagram's own login and a professional account, business or creator, with message access turned on. We set it up with you: we send the access invite through Meta, you accept it on Instagram and authorize with your login.
Does Meta allow keyword rules?
Yes. We use the official comments and messaging API, and Meta allows one private message per comment: the rule replies to the comment and sends a single DM.
Can I send a campaign through DMs?
No. Meta doesn't allow bulk sending in Instagram DMs. The conversation starts with the customer: a comment, a story, a mention or a message.
Can I send photos by DM?
No: replies from the dashboard are text. Photos, videos, voice notes and PDFs customers send show up in the conversation.
How much does it cost?
Instagram is included in your plan. You pay for the AI interaction when it replies, from US$0.02.
Your next post can answer for itself.
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